Quality Street (1937 film)
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| Directed by | George Stevens |
| Produced by | Pandro S. Berman |
| Written by |
Allan Scott Mortimer Offner |
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Quality Street 1901 play by J. M. Barrie |
| Starring |
Katharine Hepburn Franchot Tone Eric Blore Fay Bainter |
| Music by | Roy Webb |
| Cinematography | Robert De Grasse |
| Edited by | Henry Berman |
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| Distributed by | RKO Radio Pictures |
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83 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Quality Street is a 1937 period film made by RKO Radio Pictures. It was directed by George Stevens and produced by Pandro S. Berman. Set in 19th-century England, the film stars Katharine Hepburn and Franchot Tone. Joan Fontaine makes one of her early (uncredited) film appearances. The screenplay was by Allan Scott, Mortimer Offner and Jack Townley, based on the 1901 play of the same name by J. M. Barrie.
There was also a silent 1927 film version made by MGM, starring Marion Davies and Conrad Nagel and directed by Sidney Franklin.
This 1937 version was filmed at the RKO Encino movie ranch, RKO Forty Acres backlot, and RKO Hollywood Studios. Unfortunately it too was a box office failure, recording a loss of $248,000, making this Katharine Hepburn's fourth flop film in a row for RKO Pictures which added to Miss Hepburn label as "box office poison" by the 1938 national group of movie exhibitors.
The film was rarely shown on TV until TCM began airing it. Along with a number of other obscure films Hepburn made in the 1930s, it has recently been issued on DVD for the first time from Warner Archive.
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