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Sweet Kitty Bellairs is a 1930 musical comedy film photographed entirely in Technicolor. In contrast to usual historical costume dramas, the picture never takes itself seriously and is a delightful satire of the England of 1793 in the city of Bath. The film pokes fun at such things as the way women dressed when they went bathing in the 18th century (we are shown in one sequence a pool in which women are dressed head to toe with their hats on!) or to how men viewed a woman's bare ankles with what seems today to be an inordinate amount of delight and satisfaction.
The cast, which includes Claudia Dell as Kitty Bellairs, Ernest Torrence as Sir Jasper, Walter Pidgeon as the young Lord Varney, Perry Askam, Lionel Belmore, and June Collyer, enjoy themselves thoroughly, are never called upon for much histrionic effort. The cinema is from David Belasco's play of the same name. Walter Pidgeon and Claudia Dell are the principal singers. They pleasantly sing two delightful romantic love songs.
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