Alice Brady
Katherine `'Kitty'` Lorraine
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Stage Mother: Directed by Charles Brabin. With Alice Brady, Maureen O'Sullivan, Franchot Tone, Phillips Holmes. A vaudeville star has to leave her daughter with her dead husband's stuffy Boston parents while she makes a living.
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- Drama, Musical, Romance
- Charles Brabin
- 1933-09-29
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.
On the boat, Shirley attracts the attention of Lord Ronnie Aylesworth, who quickly falls in love with her. Deeply embittered by her mother's meddling, Shirley tells the class-conscious Ronnie that the loud and boisterous Kitty is not her real mother, but an easily dismissed "stage mother."
- Charles Brabin, Joe Newman
- Alice Brady
Showbiz melodrama about vaudeville actress Kitty Lorraine (Alice Brady), pregnant and then widowed when her acrobat husband falls to his death during a performance. The in-laws offer to take her and infant daughter Shirley in, if she will give up show business.
Lord Reggie Aylesworth. Ted Healy. Ralph Martin. In Theaters At Home TV Shows. Advertise With Us. Kitty Lorraine (Alice Brady) has one purpose in life: turning her daughter Shirley (Maureen...
- Drama
- Alice Brady
- Charles Brabin
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
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.
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.
