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8 lokakuu 1937 (USA)
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A boardinghouse full of aspiring actresses and their ambitions, dreams and disappointments. full summary | add synopsis
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Nominated for 4 Oscars.
Another 1 win
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Utterly perfect example of movie entertainment, 30s style
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Katharine Hepburn | ... | Terry Randall |
 | Ginger Rogers | ... | Jean Maitland |
 | Adolphe Menjou | ... | Anthony Powell |
 | Gail Patrick | ... | Linda Shaw |
| Constance Collier | ... | Miss Luther |
| Andrea Leeds | ... | Kay Hamilton |
| Samuel S. Hinds | ... | Henry Sims |
 | Lucille Ball | ... | Judith |
| Franklin Pangborn | ... | Harcourt |
| William Corson | ... | Bill |
| Pierre Watkin | ... | Carmichael |
| Grady Sutton | ... | Butch |
| Frank Reicher | ... | Stage Director |
 | Jack Carson | ... | Mr. Milbanks |
| Phyllis Kennedy | ... | Hattie |
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92 min | West Germany:83 min (TV)
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (RCA Victor System)
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Incredibly, Ann Miller was only 14 years old when she appeared in this film. She had lied about her age and procured a fake birth certificate, but the precocious Miller was so tall and beautiful at age 14 that she pulled it off. With this knowledge, today it is quite impressive to see her holding her own while dancing with Ginger Rogers, by then an international star as the dance partner of Fred Astaire,
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Judy Canfield:
Do you want a date?
Jean Maitland: To some other lumberman?
Judy Canfield: Am I supposed to apologize for being born in Seattle?
Jean Maitland: Well, the last couple we went stepping with were made of lumber. Especially their feet.
Judy Canfield: All right, all right, you can stay here and gorge yourself on lamb stew again.
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Jean Maitland: To some other lumberman?
Judy Canfield: Am I supposed to apologize for being born in Seattle?
Jean Maitland: Well, the last couple we went stepping with were made of lumber. Especially their feet.
Judy Canfield: All right, all right, you can stay here and gorge yourself on lamb stew again.
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Featured in "Hollywood the Golden Years: The RKO Story" (1987)
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Put Your Heart Into Your Feet and Dance
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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.