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Stage Door is a american film of genre Drama directed by Gregory La Cava released in USA on 8 october 1937 with Katharine Hepburn

Stage Door (1937)

Stage door

Stage Door
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Released in USA 8 october 1937
Length 1h32
Directed by ,    
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Comedy
Rating76% 3.844173.844173.844173.844173.84417

Stage Door is a 1937 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 Katharine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers, 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".

Synopsis

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 of her elderly grandfather, Jean assumes she has obtained the former from her sugar daddy, just as fellow resident Linda Shaw (Gail Patrick) has from her relationship with influential theatrical producer Anthony Powell (Adolphe Menjou). In truth however, Terry comes from a very wealthy, upper class, Midwest family. Over the strong objections of her father, Henry Sims (Samuel S. Hinds), she is determined to try to fulfill her dreams on her own. In the boarding house, Terry's only supporter is aging actress Catherine Luther (Constance Collier), who appoints herself Terry's mentor.

Actors

Katharine Hepburn

(Terry Randall)Franklin Pangborn

(Harcourt)Ginger Rogers

(Jean Maitland)Adolphe Menjou

(Anthony Powell)William Corson

(Bill)
And :
Pierre Watkin
Andrea Leeds
Lucille Ball
Eve Arden
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