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Release Date: 1937
Cast: Franklin Pangborn, Lucille Ball, Samuel S. Hinds, William R Corson, Phyllis Kennedy, Grady Sutton, Ann Miller, Eve Arden, Pierre Watkin, Katharine Hepburn, Gail Patrick, Adolphe Menjou ...MORE
Cast: Franklin Pangborn, Lucille Ball, Samuel S. Hinds, William R Corson, Phyllis Kennedy, Grady Sutton, Ann Miller, Eve Arden, Pierre Watkin, Katharine Hepburn, Gail Patrick, Adolphe Menjou, Andrea Leeds, Ginger Rogers, Constance Collier, Frank Reicher, Jack Carson ...LESS
Categories: Movies, Comedy-Drama, Black-And-White, Comedy, Drama Film, Ensemble Film
Stage Door (1937) is a RKO film, adapted from the play by the same name, that tells the story of several would-be actresses who live together in a boarding house at 158 West 58th Street in New York City. The film stars Ginger Rogers, Katharine Hepburn, Adolphe Menjou, Gail Patrick, Constance Collier, Andrea Leeds, Samuel S. Hinds and Lucille Ball. Eve Arden and Ann Miller, who became notable in later films, play minor characters.
The film was adapted by Morrie Ryskind and Anthony Veiller from the play by Edna Ferber and George S. Kaufman, but the play's storyline and the characters' names... MORE
Stage Door (1937) is a RKO film, adapted from the play by the same name, that tells the story of several would-be actresses who live together in a boarding house at 158 West 58th Street in New York City. The film stars Ginger Rogers, Katharine Hepburn, Adolphe Menjou, Gail Patrick, Constance Collier, Andrea Leeds, Samuel S. Hinds and Lucille Ball. Eve Arden and Ann Miller, who became notable in later films, play minor characters.
The film was adapted by Morrie Ryskind and Anthony Veiller from the play by Edna Ferber and George S. Kaufman, but the play's storyline and the characters' names were almost completely changed for the movie, so much so in fact that Kaufman joked the film should be called "Screen Door".
Stage Door was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture and Leeds was nominated as Best Supporting Actress.
Terry Randall (Katharine Hepburn) moves into the Footlights Club, a theatrical rooming house in New York. Her polished manners and superior attitude make her no friends among the rest of the aspiring actresses living there, particularly her new roommate, flippant, cynical dancer Jean Maitland (Ginger Rogers). From Terry's expensive clothing and her photograph LESS
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