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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....
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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....
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Genre:Romance, Drama
Written By:Violet E. Powell
In Theaters:6/15/1929
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Runtime:92 minutes
Studio:British International Pictures, Burlington Films
Cast
Victor Saville
Director
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)
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