Stage Mother (1933)
1h 25m
Running Time
September 29, 1933Release Date
Stage Mother (1933)
1h 25m
Running Time
September 29, 1933Release Date
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Plot.
Kitty Lorraine has one purpose in life: turning her daughter Shirley into a star. Kitty controls every aspect of the girl's nascent career -- even blackmailing a stage manager so that Shirley can take a more prestigious gig. But Kitty goes too far when she breaks up her daughter's budding relationship with sweet artist Warren Foster. Heartbroken, Shirley sets off on a series of disastrous but profitable relationships.
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Cast & Crew.
Alice Brady
Kitty Lorraine
Maureen O'Sullivan
Shirley Lorraine
Franchot Tone
Warren Foster
Phillips Holmes
Lord Aylesworth
Ted Healy
Ralph Martin
Charles Brabin
Director
Russell Hardie
Fred Lorraine
C. Henry Gordon
Ricco
John Meehan
Writer
Ben Alexander
Francis Nolan
Bradford Ropes
Writer
George J. Folsey
Cinematographer
Larry Fine
Customer at Music Store
Dick Elliott
Party Guest
Frank E. Hull
Editor
Alan Edwards
Al Dexter
Lowden Adams
Dexter's Butler
Luis Alberni
Hors D'Oeuvres Waiter
Sam Ash
Mr. Mark Thorne
Hank Bell
Mustached Man With Badge
Margaret Bert
Nurse
Nora Cecil
Miss Gilford, Kitty's Music Store Boss
Elspeth Dudgeon
Music Store Customer
Jay Eaton
Mr. Sterling, Dance Instructor
Bill Elliott
Audience Member / Dexter's Party Guest
John Elliott
Politician
Bud Geary
Orderly
Ruth Gillette
Blonde
June Gittelson
Laughing Fat Woman
Harrison Greene
Stage Manager
Aggie Herring
The Landlady
Harry Holman
Mr. Rumley
Gladden James
Audience Member
Tiny Jones
Dancing Girls's Mother
Lew Kelly
Jake, Stagehand
Alice Lake
Audience Member
John Larkin
The Porter
Buddy Messinger
Fellow in Third Row
Greta Meyer
Dancing Girl's Mother
Bert Moorhouse
Navy Officer
Edmund Mortimer
Shipboard Extra / Audience Extra
Frank O'Connor
Man at Gangplank
Garry Owen
Jerry, Stagehand
Bradley Page
Tom Banton
Tom Ricketts
Fred's Father
Henry Roquemore
Messenger
Phillips Smalley
Music Store Manager
Larry Steers
Dexter's Party Guest
Carl Stockdale
Stagehand
Guy Usher
Theater Owner
Monte Vandergrift
Stage Lighting Man
Glen Walters
Dancing Girl's Tall Mother
Leo White
Percy, Audition Manager
Beal Wong
Stage Extra
Tammany Young
Taxi Driver
Lillian Harmer
Fred's Mother
Mary Ann Jackson
Auditioning Child Dancer
Carl Switzer
'Irish Eyes' Singer
Edwin B. Willis
Interior Designer
Adrian
Costume Design
Louis Silvers
Original Music Composer / Conductor
Douglas Shearer
Sound Director
Hunt Stromberg
Executive Producer
Stan Rogers
Art Direction
Maurice De Packh
Original Music Composer
Joe Newman
Assistant Director
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Wiki.
Stage Mother is a 1933 American pre-Code drama film directed by Charles Brabin and starring Alice Brady and Maureen O'Sullivan. The film is about a frustrated vaudeville performer who pushes her daughter into becoming a star dancer; selfishness, deceit and blackmail drive mother and daughter apart until a reconciliation at the end of the film. The screenplay was written by John Meehan and Bradford Ropes, based on the 1933 novel of the same name by Ropes.
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