Kitty Foyle

[DRW50]

Clearly that wasn't the case here.

[amybrickwallace]

Kathleen Murray can be seen in a couple of March 1968 episodes of The Doctors, as she filled in as Maggie for Bethel Leslie, who was ill with the measles.

[Paul Raven]

Review from Broadcasting magazine

Kitty Foyle (Net) Cast: Bob Hastings, Larry Robinson, Marie Worsham, Mae Barnes, others. Producer, Charles Irving. Director, Gary Simpson. Script, Carlton E. Morse. Sustaining eta NBC -TV. (NBC -TV, 2:20-3 p.m., EST, February 3 )

 "Kitty Foyle" needs plenty of work if it is ever to make a career for itself in daytime TV. As most women know, "Kitty Foyle" is the story of a secretary, the daughter of a Philadelphia Irishman who moves into the select circles of society in the Quaker City. For its time it allowed an easy identification for America's working girls, but it needs revision for today's world. The episode viewed took a half hour, let brother Ed steal a fete backs from the cookie jar, brother Mac tells how he was ready to marry a girl he met one week ago. and Stacy Lee Bella and Carter Hamilton II to dance and moon. The poverty -stricken writing was completely devoid of interest. Ed, for example, was after the family budget money. His attempts to fool this brother were ridiculous And obvious to all. Miss Balla and Carter are supposed to represent society. This they do by wearing riding boots and jodhpurs, judgment as to acting is very difficult when writing is so poor. However, as the maid, Mae Barnes is completely lacking in the ability to relate to other actors. This show needs sharp improvement quickly. Leon Morse. 

Edited March 1, 2016 by Paul Raven

[DRW50]

Thanks. These reviews are likely all we'll ever get of the show.

[Paul Raven]

Judging by that review and the ratings we didn't miss much!

[danfling]

Oscar-winning actress, who appeared on Kitty Foyle, has passed away.

[Paul Raven]

Kathleen Murray's first episode was Monday Feb 10 1958.

[Paul Raven]

Staats Cosworth and Valerie Cossart were also in the original cast.

[vetsoapfan]

There's a fun old-time radio drama of Kitty Foyle, starring Ginger Rogers, who played Kitty in the original film version.

 

These radio adaptations of classic films are a blast!

 

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[Paul Raven]

Varirty reports Mary Linn Beller was up for the role of Kitty.

[Paul Raven]

This article lists the 15 actreeses in the final running for the tite role. Some familiar names there.

Search Nears Climax For Star in 'Kitty Foyle' Show

Early last August a search began to find the girl for the title role in Christopher Morley's '"Kitty Foyle," the first-person chronicle of the young "white collar" girl.

"Kitty Foyle" will be telecast live from New York, Monday through Friday, over Channel 4 beginning Monday, Jan. 13. Now, as "Kitty Foyle" prepares to go into production, one of the widest talent searches in the history of the medium is reaching a climax. Over 190 girls have been screened, and associate producer Hal Cooper has narrowed the field down to 15 prospects.

The role of Kitty will be an acting plum for the girl selected. For the entire series will revolve around the life, loves, ambitions of this daughter of a Londonberry Irishman from Philadelphia.kitty is more than a character in a book, she represents the ideal of a young working girl.

After many months of interviewing girls, most of them working actresses, some with more or less experience than others, the field was narrowed to 45. Then, last weekend, 15 girls were picked as finalists. Kinescopes of each of the 15 girls reading the same scene have been made. The 15 finalists, to be presented to the public via many NBC Television shows, include Elizabeth Allen (currently appearing in "Romanoff and Juliet"), Francis Armstrong, Millette Alexander, Beverly Bentley (seen on NBC Television's "The Price Is Right"), Arlene Golonka, Daryl Grimes, Julienne Marie, Joan Holloway, Judy Lewis (the daughter of Loretta Young), Karla Most, Kathleen Murray, Cathleen Neal, Sandy Smith, Natalie Trundy and Marie Worsham.

[danfling]

Judy Lewis was later cast on the series, but not as Kitty.

 

[danfling]

Julienne Marie was later cast on the Procter and Gamble primetime serial Our Private World (on which Millette Alexander appeared as Sylvia on one single episode).   I am quite suprised to see that she was considered for this role.   I had always envisioned her as younger than Eileen Fulton, who also is in the age range of some of these other actresses.

[danfling]

January 13 was the anniversary of the premiere of Kitty Folye on NBC.

This appeared on It's about TV:

 

"On Monday, it's the debut of the daytime serial Kitty Foyle (2:30 p.m, NBC), which surely must have one of the more distinguished pedigrees of any soap opera. It begins with the 1939 best-seller by Christopher Morley, which tells the story of a white-collar girl who falls in love with a young socialite, and includes such touchy subjects as out-of-wedlock pregnancy and abortion. This was adapted into a 1940 movie (toning down some of the book's racier parts), which won a Best Actress Oscar for Ginger Rogers (and created a fashion trend called the "Kitty Foyle Dress"), and then a 1942-44 radio serialization created by soap opera giant Irna Phillips. In was inevitable that it would eventually make it to television, which it does here, becoming NBC's first half-hour soap. Strangely enough, the TV version of Kitty Foyle doesn't do too well; soap opera historian Ron Lackmann speculates that "perhaps the story was too familiar, or perhaps once the basic story was told, there was nothing else to say about Kitty and her problems." The series ends after only five months. "

[danfling]

Betsy Brentley, who had auditioned for the role of Kitty, later was Mrs. Norman Mailer.