Quality Street (1937 film)

Quality Street is a 1937 period romance film made by RKO Radio Pictures. It was directed by George Stevens and produced by Pandro S. Berman. Set in 19thcentury 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.

In 1805 England, eligible bachelors are scarce on Quality Street. Twentyyearold Phoebe Throssel Hepburn becomes very hopeful when one of the few, Dr. Valentine Brown Tone, tells her he has something important to say to her that day. Both she and her older sister Susan believe he will propose. However, he informs her that he has enlisted in the army to fight in the Napoleonic Wars. Phoebe hides her devastation so well that Dr. Brown never suspects she is deeply in love with him. She gives up hope of ever marrying. By contrast, the Throssels servant Patty, though she is a decade older and aware she is no beauty, is confident that she will get a man.For the next ten years, the Throssels run a school for young boys and girls. Then, with the wars over, Brown returns as a captain. When he comes to invite the sisters to a ball, he is taken aback by how much Phoebes looks appear to have deteriorated. Hurt by this, Phoebe declines. ........

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