Kitty (1945 film)
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Kitty is a 1945 film, a costume drama set in London during the 1780s, directed by Mitchell Leisen, based on the novel of the same name by Rosamond Marshall (published in 1943), with a screenplay by Karl Tunberg. It stars Paulette Goddard, Ray Milland, Constance Collier, Patric Knowles, Reginald Owen, and Cecil Kellaway as the English painter Thomas Gainsborough. In a broad interpretation of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, the film tells the rags-to-riches story of a beautiful young cockney guttersnipe who is given a complete makeover by an impoverished aristocrat (Milland) and his aunt (Collier) in hopes of arranging her marriage to a peer, thereby repairing their fortunes and their social status.
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Directed by | Mitchell Leisen |
Written by | Karl Tunberg Darrell Ware |
Based on | novel by Rosamond Marshall |
Produced by | Mitchell Leisen |
Starring | Paulette Goddard Ray Milland |
Cinematography | Daniel L. Fapp |
Edited by | Alma Macrorie |
Music by | Victor Young |
Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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Running time | 103 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $2 million[1] |
Box office | $3.5 million (US rentals)[2] |