Quality Street (1937)

Set in 1805 England, a young woman (Katharine Hepburn) is abandoned by her beau (Franchot Tone) when he goes off to fight in the Napoleonic Wars. When he returns 10 years later, he finds her unrecognizable and not the same woman. Based on the play by J.M. Barrie and directed by George Stevens (A PLACE IN THE SUN). One of the flops that Hepburn made at RKO that got her labeled box office poison. It's not one of her better vehicles but not one of her worst either. It's a rather stuffy period piece with ladies in bonnets who ride in carriages and men tipping their top hats at passersby. Hepburn gets to have some farcical fun as she passes herself off as her niece and then has to switch identities frequently as not to be discovered. If you're not a Hepburn fan or completist, you may find this on the tedious side. With Fay Bainter, Joan Fontaine, Eric Blore, Estelle Winwood and Cora Witherspoon.