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Stage Door

  • 19371937
  • ApprovedApproved
  • 1h 32m
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7.7/10
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Katharine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers, Adolphe Menjou, and Gail Patrick in Stage Door (1937)
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ComedyDramaRomance
A chronicle of the ambitions, dreams, and disappointments of aspiring actresses who all live in the same boarding house.A chronicle of the ambitions, dreams, and disappointments of aspiring actresses who all live in the same boarding house.A chronicle of the ambitions, dreams, and disappointments of aspiring actresses who all live in the same boarding house.
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    • Gregory La Cava
  • Writers
    • Morrie Ryskind(screen play)
    • Anthony Veiller(screen play)
    • Edna Ferber(from the play by)
  • Stars
    • Katharine Hepburn
    • Ginger Rogers
    • Adolphe Menjou
    • Gregory La Cava
  • Writers
    • Morrie Ryskind(screen play)
    • Anthony Veiller(screen play)
    • Edna Ferber(from the play by)
  • Stars
    • Katharine Hepburn
    • Ginger Rogers
    • Adolphe Menjou
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 97User reviews
    • 47Critic reviews
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Nominated for 4 Oscars

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    Katharine Hepburn, Constance Collier, Ralph Forbes, Huntley Gordon, and Jack Rice in Stage Door (1937)
    Ginger Rogers and Gail Patrick in Stage Door (1937)
    Adolphe Menjou, Franklin Pangborn, and Gail Patrick in Stage Door (1937)
    Katharine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers, and Adolphe Menjou in Stage Door (1937)
    Katharine Hepburn and Ginger Rogers in Stage Door (1937)
    Lucille Ball, Ginger Rogers, and Gail Patrick in Stage Door (1937)
    Ginger Rogers, Adolphe Menjou, Ann Miller, and Gail Patrick in Stage Door (1937)
    Lucille Ball, Ginger Rogers, and Ann Miller in Stage Door (1937)
    Katharine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers, Adolphe Menjou, and Gail Patrick in Stage Door (1937)
    Katharine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers, and Adolphe Menjou in Stage Door (1937)
    Ginger Rogers in Stage Door (1937)
    Katharine Hepburn and Ginger Rogers in Stage Door (1937)

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    Katharine Hepburn
    Katharine Hepburn
    • Terry Randall
    Ginger Rogers
    Ginger Rogers
    • Jean Maitland
    Adolphe Menjou
    Adolphe Menjou
    • Anthony Powell
    Gail Patrick
    Gail Patrick
    • Linda Shaw
    Constance Collier
    Constance Collier
    • Miss Luther
    Andrea Leeds
    Andrea Leeds
    • Kay Hamilton
    Samuel S. Hinds
    Samuel S. Hinds
    • Henry Sims
    Lucille Ball
    Lucille Ball
    • Judith Canfield
    Franklin Pangborn
    Franklin Pangborn
    • Harcourt
    William Corson
    • Bill
    Pierre Watkin
    Pierre Watkin
    • Carmichael
    Grady Sutton
    Grady Sutton
    • Butch
    Frank Reicher
    Frank Reicher
    • Stage Director
    Jack Carson
    Jack Carson
    • Mr. Milbanks
    Phyllis Kennedy
    Phyllis Kennedy
    • Hattie
    Eve Arden
    Eve Arden
    • Eve
    Ann Miller
    Ann Miller
    • Annie
    Margaret Early
    Margaret Early
    • Mary Lou
      • Gregory La Cava
    • Writers
      • Morrie Ryskind(screen play)
      • Anthony Veiller(screen play)
      • Edna Ferber(from the play by)
    • All cast & crew
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    • Trivia
      The screenplay was considerably altered from the hit stage play. Director Gregory La Cava was particularly gifted working with actresses. For two weeks prior to filming, he had his cast improvise in the boarding house set as if they were actually rooming together and had a script girl take down all their interchanges. Most of the dialog heard in the boarding house is extemporaneous ad-libs by the actresses.
    • Goofs
      The band at Club Grotto, where Jean and Annie perform a dance number, includes a female vocalist who can be seen singing in the background, but no vocals are heard on the soundtrack.
    • Quotes

      Terry Randall: [delivering her opening speech in the play within the movie] The calla lilies are in bloom again. Such a strange flower, suitable to any occasion. I carried them on my wedding day and now I place them here in memory of something that has died.

    • Alternate versions
      SPOILER: A shot of a man mowing the grass around Kay's grave is missing from some versions.
    • Connections
      Edited into Starring Katharine Hepburn (1981)
    • Soundtracks
      Put Your Heart Into Your Feet and Dance
      (uncredited)

      Written by Hal Borne and Mort Greene

      Danced by Ginger Rogers and Ann Miller

    User reviews97

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    9/10
    Utterly perfect example of movie entertainment, 30s style
    Director Gregory LaCava apparently liked to hit the bottle and so had a spotty career, but Stage Door is his masterpiece. Not in some personal, auteurist way, but in having achieved an almost ideal example of Depression-era movie entertainment. Its venue is the Footlights Club, a theatrical boarding house near Broadway, where lamb stew and broken dreams are the nightly staples. Among the gals with stiletto tongues but hearts of gold are Lucille Ball, Eve Arden, Ann Miller, Gail Patrick and formidable Constance Collier ("Could you see an older woman in the part?"). But the movie centers on the rivalry between roommates Katherine Hepburn, as a spoiled rich kid who tries acting as a lark, and Ginger Rogers, as a plucky thespian waiting for her break. Believe it or no, those diametrical opposites (aristocratic, ethereal Kate and tough, pragmatic Ginger) work like a dream together. The script negotiates a delicate path between pathos and bathos, and somehow keeps its balance, even when one of the troupers loses her grip on reality and...Well, enough said. Best of all: this is the movie in which Hepburn gets to elocute: "The calla lilies are in bloom again...." Sheerest heaven.
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    • Release date
      • October 8, 1937 (United States)
      • United States
      • English
    • Also known as
      • RKO Studios - 780 N. Gower Street, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
    • Production company
      • RKO Radio Pictures
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    • 1 hour 32 minutes
      • Black and White

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