With ET's movie I was 4 months late, with yours I was only 3, so improvement is there
Stage Door (1937)
Here we have a film that if it was made today would be lauded for its female centric plot and cast. Trouble is this was made 74 years ago and in my mind was at the end of an era of some great female centric films. By the end of WWII those films disappeared for several decades. All that said I am not sure I can back up either statement, I would need to do more research.
Opening scene is chaos in a theatrical boarding house. Gives a nice chance to meet a lot of the cast. 5 minutes in and here is Katherine Hepburn. Nice bit of innuendo. Personalities in full swing. Great banter between Hepburn and Ginger Rogers.
This film is about this group of women scraping by to getting successful or even just into theatre based show-business. Some are working the angle of getting wealthy men to boost their careers, of course this is the Hayes era so most of what happens is only implied. Watching this has me wondering how much has changed.
Surprise Lucille Ball (centre) is in the cast, although I had trouble spotting her.
Dialogue tops, the sad tinged ending worked perfectly. Stuck with the Hayes code they implied as much as they could.
Still feeling a little down from the ending, but also up. Shows the mill that is show business, with the women of this theatrical house the wheat for the mill.
Raiting: 80 / 100