Based on a hit "romance novel" (long before that phrase was invented), KITTY is an opulent and very authentic look at 18th-century England, and Goddard is at the top of her beauty and form. It's yet another version of the "Pygmalion" story with Goddard as the poor Cockney girl who rises to
become a duchess. She is first noticed by Kellaway, as the famous artist Gainsborough, who adores her looks and paints her portrait. Now she is taken under the wing of the calculating Milland, a foppish nobleman, and his drunken dowager aunt, Collier. They plan to use her beauty to their advantage
and begin to educate her. A marriage is arranged between Goddard and elderly Hoey, ...
Released:
1945
Rated:
NR
Length:
103 mins