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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.
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
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.
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 (1933) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Stage Mother. Kitty Lorraine (Alice Brady) has one purpose in life: turning her daughter Shirley (Maureen O'Sullivan) into a star. Kitty controls every aspect of the girl's nascent career --...
- Drama
Stage Mother is a film directed by Charles Brabin with Alice Brady, Maureen O'Sullivan, Franchot Tone, Phillips Holmes .... Year: 1933. Original title: Stage Mother. Synopsis: A vaudeville star has to leave her daughter with her dead husband's stuffy Boston parents while she makes a living.
