Kitty (1929)
Alex St. George, a young RFC pilot, is anxious about fighting in the First World War. He is comforted by sensitive shop assistant Kitty, and the two fall in love, marrying before Alex is sent to the front. But his snobbish mother disapproves of the match, and when Alex returns home paralysed and in a cataleptic state, Mrs. St. George plots to keep him from his wife until she can arrange an annulment. But the determined Kitty has plans of her own....
- Date of release
- 1929-06-15
- TMDB
- 6.0 / 10 (2)
- Runtime
- 1h 32m
- Genres
- Romance, Drama
- Director
- Victor Saville
Casting
- Estelle Brody — Kitty Greenwood / Kitty St. George
- John Stuart — Alex St. George
- Dorothy Cumming — Mrs. St. George
- Marie Ault — Sarah Greenwood
- Winter Hall — John Furnival
- Olaf Hytten — Leaper
- Charles Ashton — Grimshaw
- Charles O'Shaughnessy — Reuben (sound version)
- Charles Levey — Reuben (silent version)
- Elwood Fleet Bostwick — Dr. Dazeley
- Charles Courtneidge — Dr. Drake (sound version)
- Rex Maurice — Dr. Drake (silent version)
Interesting facts
Kitty is a 1929 sound part-talkie British drama film directed by Victor Saville and starring Estelle Brody and John Stuart. Due to the popularity of sound films, the American film company Sono Art-World Wide Pictures collaborated with B.I.P. to produce a sound version of the film for cinemas wired for sound. They recorded the soundtrack using the RCA Photophone sound system. In addition to sequences with audible dialogue or talking sequences, the film features a synchronized musical score and sound effects along with English intertitles.
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