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 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

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

Charles Brabin
Director

Douglas Shearer
Sound Director

Frank E. Hull
Editor

Bradford Ropes
Novel / Screenplay
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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