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 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.
The 1937 version was a flop at the box office, recording a loss of $248,000, one of several RKO films featuring Hepburn which resulted in her being labeled "box office poison" by a national group of movie exhibitors in 1938.
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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