Stage Mother

Stage Mother

85 mins | Drama, Romance | Sept. 29, 1933

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.

Stage Mother

85 mins | Drama, Romance | Sept. 29, 1933

Stage Mother
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.
IMDb rating 6.0
Producers Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Original title Stage Mother
Directors Joe Newman, Charles Brabin
Writers John Meehan, Bradford Ropes

Cast

Alice Brady

as Kitty Lorraine

Maureen O'Sullivan

as Shirley Lorraine

Franchot Tone

as Warren Foster

Phillips Holmes

as Lord Reggie Aylesworth

Ted Healy

as Ralph Martin

Russell Hardie

as Fred Lorraine

C. Henry Gordon

as Ricco

Ben Alexander

as Francis Nolan

Larry Fine

as Customer at Music Store

Dick Elliott

as Party Guest

Alan Edwards

as Al Dexter

Lowden Adams

as Dexter's Butler

Luis Alberni

as Hors D'Oeuvres Waiter

Sam Ash

as Mr. Mark Thorne

Hank Bell

as Mustached Man With Badge

Margaret Bert

as Nurse

Nora Cecil

as Miss Gilford, Kitty's Music Store Boss

Elspeth Dudgeon

as Music Store Customer

Jay Eaton

as Mr. Sterling, Dance Instructor

Bill Elliott

as Audience Member / Dexter's Party Guest

John Elliott

as Politician

Bud Geary

as Orderly

Ruth Gillette

as Blonde

June Gittelson

as Laughing Fat Woman

Harrison Greene

as Stage Manager

Aggie Herring

as The Landlady

Harry Holman

as Mr. Rumley

Gladden James

as Audience Member

Tiny Jones

as Dancing Girls's Mother

Lew Kelly

as Jake, Stagehand

Alice Lake

as Audience Member

John Larkin

as The Porter

Buddy Messinger

as Fellow in Third Row

Greta Meyer

as Dancing Girl's Mother

Bert Moorhouse

as Navy Officer

Edmund Mortimer

as Shipboard Extra / Audience Extra

Frank O'Connor

as Man at Gangplank

Garry Owen

as Jerry, Stagehand

Bradley Page

as Tom Banton

Tom Ricketts

as Fred's Father

Henry Roquemore

as Messenger

Phillips Smalley

as Music Store Manager

Larry Steers

as Dexter's Party Guest

Carl Stockdale

as Stagehand

Guy Usher

as Theater Owner

Monte Vandergrift

as Stage Lighting Man

Glen Walters

as Dancing Girl's Tall Mother

Leo White

as Percy, Audition Manager

Beal Wong

as Stage Extra

Tammany Young

as Taxi Driver

Lillian Harmer

as Fred's Mother

Mary Ann Jackson

as Auditioning Child Dancer

Carl Switzer

as 'Irish Eyes' Singer