Stage Mother (1933)
1h 25m
Running Time
September 29, 1933Release Date
Stage Mother (1933)
1h 25m
Running Time
September 29, 1933Release Date
Network & Production Companies
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 Reggie Aylesworth
Ted Healy
Ralph Martin
Russell Hardie
Fred Lorraine
C. Henry Gordon
Ricco
Ben Alexander
Francis Nolan
Larry Fine
Customer at Music Store
Dick Elliott
Party Guest
Alan Edwards
Al Dexter
Lowden Adams
Dexter's Butler (uncredited)
Luis Alberni
Hors D'Oeuvres Waiter (uncredited)
Sam Ash
Mr. Mark Thorne (uncredited)
Hank Bell
Mustached Man With Badge
Margaret Bert
Nurse (uncredited)
Nora Cecil
Miss Gilford, Kitty's Music Store Boss (uncredited)
Elspeth Dudgeon
Music Store Customer (uncredited)
Jay Eaton
Mr. Sterling, Dance Instructor (uncredited)
Bill Elliott
Audience Member / Dexter's Party Guest (uncredited)
John Elliott
Politician (uncredited)
Bud Geary
Orderly (uncredited)
Ruth Gillette
Blonde (uncredited)
June Gittelson
Laughing Fat Woman (uncredited)
Harrison Greene
Stage Manager (uncredited)
Lillian Harmer
Fred's Mother (uncredited)
Aggie Herring
The Landlady (uncredited)
Harry Holman
Mr. Rumley (uncredited)
Mary Ann Jackson
Auditioning Child Dancer (uncredited)
Gladden James
Audience Member (uncredited)
Tiny Jones
Dancing Girls's Mother (uncredited)
Lew Kelly
Jake, Stagehand (uncredited)
Alice Lake
Audience Member (uncredited)
John Larkin
The Porter (uncredited)
Buddy Messinger
Fellow in Third Row (uncredited)
Greta Meyer
Dancing Girl's Mother (uncredited)
Bert Moorhouse
Navy Officer (uncredited)
Edmund Mortimer
Shipboard Extra / Audience Extra (uncredited)
Frank O'Connor
Man at Gangplank (uncredited)
Garry Owen
Jerry, Stagehand (uncredited)
Bradley Page
Tom Banton (uncredited)
Tom Ricketts
Fred's Father (uncredited)
Henry Roquemore
Messenger (uncredited)
Phillips Smalley
Music Store Manager (uncredited)
Larry Steers
Dexter's Party Guest (uncredited)
Carl Stockdale
Stagehand (uncredited)
Carl Switzer
'Irish Eyes' Singer (uncredited)
Guy Usher
Theater Owner (uncredited)
Monte Vandergrift
Stage Lighting Man (uncredited)
Glen Walters
Dancing Girl's Tall Mother (uncredited)
Leo White
Percy, Audition Manager (uncredited)
Beal Wong
Stage Extra (uncredited)
Tammany Young
Taxi Driver (uncredited)
Charles Brabin
Director
Adrian
Costume Design
Bradford Ropes
Screenplay / Novel
Media.
Details.
Release DateSeptember 29, 1933
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 25m
Content RatingNR
Genres
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This Movie Is About.
musical
puritan
pre-code
stage mother
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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