Help me ID yet another movie

[Baker]

I once watched an old movie, black and white. Can’t remember the title, or who the main actress was.

You might call it a “chick flick”. Nice girl from ?lower middle class falls in love with guy from snooty upper crust. They plan to marry but his family pressures him out of it. She doesn’t realize she’s pregnant, and when she does doesn’t tell the father. She has the baby and gets work in a high class department store. Baby dies. Eventually, while working, she waits on a woman who married her chile’s father, and sees his son.

This movie has what may be the first mention of the new millenium occuring outside of a sci-fi movie, as she referred lovingly to her child as “my little hope for the year 2000.”

Does this ring any bells?

[lissener]

It’s ringing an older bell than anything to do with 2000. More clues please?

[AuntiePam]

Do you remember any of the actors’ names, character names, occupations, background music, location?

When you say “old”, do you mean 50’s, or earlier than that?

In the department store, was the poor girl behind the perfume counter?

It sounds familiar to me too.

[malkabat]

Kitty Foyle?

[lissener]

@malkabat

Kitty Foyle?

That’s what I was thinking too, but I don’t remember the “2000” line. Seems a bit of a stretch for a movie made in 1940, no? Doesn’t seem like an image I remember: a young mother picturing her child as a 60-year-old?

[Walloon]

Without a doubt, Kitty Foyle. Kitty ends up an executive at the Delphine Detaille fashion house.

Remember the favorite exclamation of Kitty and her father? “Judas Priest!”

[Baker]

Kitty Foyle seems like the best fit, but the summary doesn’t mention a child. I could watch it sometime and see. I sure appreciate the help!

I too was surprised at an old movie mentioning the year 2000, with the woman envisioning her child as an older man who would reach that date, but it’s definitely a line I remember, how tenderly she said it, and then her grief at the death of the child.

[lissener]

@Baker

Kitty Foyle seems like the best fit, but the summary doesn’t mention a child. I could watch it sometime and see. I sure appreciate the help!

I too was surprised at an old movie mentioning the year 2000, with the woman envisioning her child as an older man who would reach that date, but it’s definitely a line I remember, how tenderly she said it, and then her grief at the death of the child.

There was definitely a child. I’ve seen the movie within the last year or so. Do you remember that Kitty had to choose between marrying a doctor and going back with the playboy who dropped her? Do you remember the little Italian restaurant scenes, where they had a special bottle of wine with a witch on the label?

Do you remember that Kitty was played by the great Ginger Rogers, who won an Oscar for the role?

[Walloon]

From the plot description of Kitty Foyle in the American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures:

After her beloved father’s death, Kitty goes to New York, where she begins to date Mark while she still longing for Wyn. Wyn finally comes for Kitty and the two are married, but when he takes her home, his family wants to “remake” her and she rebels. Kitty forces Wyn to make a choice, but he remains a prisoner of his family’s money and position and the marriage is annulled. Kitty returns to New York, where she learns in rapid succession that she is pregnant and that Wyn is to marry a Philadelphia socialite. Kitty’s plans to rear the child by herself come to an abrupt end when the infant dies in childbirth.

[Baker]

That’s it then! I am going to have to find that movie and watch it again, I thought that she had been divorced, not that the marriage had been annulled. And I don’t remember the restaurant.

Dopers are the best.