Kitty Foyle is an American old-time radio and television soap opera originally aired during the 1940s and 1950s that was based on the 1940 film of the same name starring Ginger Rogers.
Kitty Foyle was created by soap opera mogul Irna Phillips of Guiding Light fame and produced by daytime radio monarchs Frank and Anne Hummert of Helen Trent recognition.
The program originally starred Julie Stevens in the title role of Kitty Foyle on radio.
[5] The program was created by soap opera mogul Irna Phillips[6] and was produced by daytime radio monarchs Frank and Anne Hummert.
[1] Bud Collyer, who was the voice of Superman at the time, portrayed the role of Wyn Strafford,[8][9] the love interest of Kitty Foyle.
The plot of the novel tells the story of a white-collar girl who falls in love with a young socialite, despite the objections of his family.
Contemporary Authors noted: "Central to the story is protagonist Kitty's affair with the affluent Wyn Strafford.
Critics heatedly debated Morley's sexual sensationalism,"[12] notably her out-of-wedlock pregnancy and abortion.
[14] In 1941, Irna Phillips, creator of the popular soap opera Guiding Light, first proposed the idea of a serialized version of the award-winning film[15] released a year earlier to Lady Esther cosmetics.
But within months after landing sponsorship of The Lone Ranger, the company were approached with the idea of a radio program that took popular novels of the time (past or present) and make serialized productions of them.
The segments became so popular in fact that the rotating story concept of the program was abandoned[17] and by the fall of 1942, the serial Kitty Foyle took over the daytime timeslot of its predecessor.