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Stage Mother is a american film of genre Drama directed by Charles Brabin released in USA on 29 september 1933 with Alice Brady

Stage Mother (1933)

Stage Mother
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Released in USA 29 september 1933
Length 1h25
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Musical,    Romance
Rating60% 3.0007753.0007753.0007753.0007753.000775

Stage Mother is a 1933 American Pre-Code Drama, Romance, (Drama with Songs), (Show Business Drama) film. A backstage Drama, the film follows the story of Kitty Lorraine, a frustrated vaudeville performer who pushes her daughter into becoming a star dancer. Selfishness, deceit and blackmail drive mother and daughter apart until a last-reel reconciliation. The film stars Alice Brady and Maureen O'Sullivan and was directed by Charles Brabin.

Synopsis

Four years after her vaudevillian husband's death, Kitty Lorraine, a frustrated former performer, marries comic Ralph Martin and returns to the stage, leaving behind her four-year-old daughter Shirley with her former in-laws. Fed up after ten years of Ralph's drinking, Kitty divorces him and sends for her now 14-year-old daughter. Two years of training allows Shirley to land a featured role in a touring music revue. Upon Shirley's return to New York City, Kitty blackmails the revue's manager into breaking Shirley's contract so she can take the starring role in a Broadway revue.

Actors

Alice Brady

(Kitty Lorraine)Maureen O'Sullivan

(Shirley Lorraine)Franchot Tone

(Warren Foster)Phillips Holmes

(Lord Reggie Aylesworth)Ted Healy

(Ralph Martin)
And :
Russell Hardie
C. Henry Gordon
Larry Fine
Alan Edwards
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