Stage Mother
Drama
Romance
Her life was all CAREER and no CARESSES
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.
1933-09-29
en
Cast
Director
Charles Brabin
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
Luis Alberni as Hors D'Oeuvres Waiter (uncredited)
Sam Ash as Mr. Mark Thorne (uncredited)
Hank Bell as Mustached Man With Badge
Nora Cecil as Miss Gilford, Kitty's Music Store Boss (uncredited)
Elspeth Dudgeon as Music Store Customer (uncredited)
Jay Eaton as Mr. Sterling, Dance Instructor (uncredited)
Bill Elliott as Audience Member / Dexter's Party Guest (uncredited)
John Elliott as Politician (uncredited)
Bud Geary as Orderly (uncredited)
Ruth Gillette as Blonde (uncredited)
June Gittelson as Laughing Fat Woman (uncredited)
Lillian Harmer as Fred's Mother (uncredited)
Aggie Herring as The Landlady (uncredited)
Harry Holman as Mr. Rumley (uncredited)
Mary Ann Jackson as Auditioning Child Dancer (uncredited)
Gladden James as Audience Member (uncredited)
Lew Kelly as Jake, Stagehand (uncredited)
Alice Lake as Audience Member (uncredited)
John Larkin as The Porter (uncredited)
Buddy Messinger as Fellow in Third Row (uncredited)
Greta Meyer as Dancing Girl's Mother (uncredited)
Frank O'Connor as Man at Gangplank (uncredited)
Garry Owen as Jerry, Stagehand (uncredited)
Bradley Page as Tom Banton (uncredited)
Tom Ricketts as Fred's Father (uncredited)
Phillips Smalley as Music Store Manager (uncredited)
Larry Steers as Dexter's Party Guest (uncredited)
Carl Stockdale as Stagehand (uncredited)
Carl Switzer as 'Irish Eyes' Singer (uncredited)
Guy Usher as Theater Owner (uncredited)
Leo White as Percy, Audition Manager (uncredited)
Tammany Young as Taxi Driver (uncredited)
Billy O'Brien as Student