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Pennsylvania's Haverford College last week was in an uproar. Two professors had resigned. Haverford's President Dr. Felix Morley. onetime editor of the Washington Post, said the trouble was domestic. The two professors said it was political...
Standard Hollywood practice would have been to convert "Kitty Foyle," Christopher Morley's "natural history of a woman," into an innocuous boy-meets-girl romance. The verboten questions of social caste and childbirth out of wedlock might have been replaced by sticky sentimentality and irrelevant filler scenes. Ginger Rogers could have devoted her talents to singing and dancing rather than to acting. But, with unusual regard for Morley's novel, the producers of "Kitty Foyle" brought this cross section of a white collar girl's emotions to the screen with almost all its original insight and realism...
...Manhattan, the Dexter Fellows Tent, Circus Saints & Sinners Club of America, feasted Man About Literature Christopher Morley; inducted him as "fall guy" amid props that left little doubt of the variety of Author Morley's achievements...
Kitty Foyle (R. K. O. Radio). Nothing succeeds with the cinema's limitless female following like a good teary treatment of women's travails. So when Novelist Christopher Morley produced Kitty Foyle last year, he had a certain movie sale on his hands...
...continued to be smart by putting its leading social thinker, Dalton Trumbo (Johnny Got His Gun), to work on the script, later hiring witty, pink-cheeked Donald Ogden Stewart to furnish additional dialogue. This battery developed a smooth, efficient screen play from Morley's novel, preserving every pound of his pathos and adding a few ounces more of their own. They open with Kitty accepting the proposal of solid, reliable Dr. Mark Eisen (James Craig). As Kitty is packing for the elopement, they bring in Wyn Strafford VI (Dennis Morgan), Kitty's socialite ex-husband from Philadelphia...