Kitty Foyle
Reception

Kitty Foyle (1940)

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6.9
5 platform(s) · 7 ratings 4,885 votes
6.8/10 275 votes Synced 2026-07-27
6.9/10 4,553 votes Synced 2026-08-20
Audience 0.0/10 1 votes Synced 2026-07-19
Critics 5.5/10 Synced 2026-07-19
Audience 7.1/10 Synced 2026-07-17
Critics 7.3/10 Synced 2026-07-17
6.6/10 56 votes Synced 2026-09-12

External reviews

Staff (Not Credited) · TV Guide Magazine 80.00/100.00

Highly sentimental, KITTY FOYLE features typically variable direction by Wood and includes an unnecessary prologue showing how the treatment of women supposedly changed through the years. Despite these drawbacks, this film makes no apologies for being a romantic tearjerker.

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Pat Graham · Chicago Reader 50.00/100.00

Sam Wood, the El Supremo of Hollywood hackdom, squired this one to glory.

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Staff (Not Credited) · Variety 80.00/100.00

Despite its episodic, and at times, vaguely-defined motivation, picture on whole is a poignant and dramatic portraiture of a typical Cinderella girl’s love story. Several good comedy sequences interline the footage, deftly written and directed.

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Pamela Hutchinson · The Guardian 80.00/100.00

Kitty is a child of her age, and this melodrama aspires to state-of-the-nation commentary about the limits of the American dream for working-class women, while she cherishes a keepsake snowglobe like a distaff Citizen Kane.

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Bosley Crowther · The New York Times 50.00/100.00

The sharpness and contemporary significance of Mr. Morley's commentary are missing.

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