Kitty Foyle (DVD)

Known for light comedies and her partnership with Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers stepped off the dance floor and into 1940's Oscar spotlight with her Best Actress turn as Kitty, an indomitable working-class girl who endures the rejection of Philadelphia society, makes her own way as a single woman and ultimately chooses between an unmarried arrangement with Main Line scion Wynnewood Strafford VI (Dennis Morgan) or marriage to a struggling physician (James Craig). Rogers' deserved Academy Award confirmed she was more than a dance star - a fact humorously underscored when she returned to the studio and was greeted by staffers and actors in top hats and tails.

Starring: Ginger Rogers, Dennis Morgan, James Craig, Eduardo Ciannelli, Ernest Cossart, Cecil Cunningham, Nella Walker, Edward Fielding, Kay Linaker, Richard Nichols, Gladys Cooper, Odette Myrtil, Mary Treen, Katharine Stevens, Walter Kingsford, Florence Bates, Heather Angel, Tyler Brooke, Hattie Noel, Frank Milan, Charles Quigley, Harold Entwistle, Billy Elmer, Walter Sande, Ray Teal, Joey Ray, Mel Ruick, Doodles Weaver, Theodore Von Eltz, Max Davidson, Charles Miller, Mary Gordon, Fay Helm, Helen Lynd, Dorothy Vaughan, Mimi Doyle, Hilda Plowright, Gino Corrado, Joe Bernard, Tom Herbert, Mary Currier, Pat Flaherty, May Boley, Joe Whitehead, Edward McNamara, Helen Brown, Polly Bailey, Frank Mills, Charles Irwin, Gohr Van Vleck, Mary Benoit

Director: David Hempstead