Stage Door

Stage Door1937

Director: Gregory La Cava
Stars: Katharine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers, Adolphe Menjou, Gail Patrick, Constance Collier
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Runtime: 92 minutes

Stage Door Canteen (1943), directed by Frank Borzage (A Farewell to Arms) in support of the war effort, prefigures Anchors Aweigh and On the Town in depicting the lives of servicemen on leave in the big city. Countless British and American celebriti… more »



Terry:
You sound very superior. What have you ever done in the theatre?

Eve:
Everything but burst out of a pie at a Rotarian banquet.

Terry:
You all talk as though the world owed you a living. Maybe if you tried to do something for the theatre, the theatre would do something for you.

Judy:
Oh, what theatre!

Another girl:
Is there a theatre?

Eve:
I don't know. Has anybody looked up the side streets lately?

Terry:
It doesn't seem to me that any of you take your work very seriously.

Judy:
Well, now that you're here, we're all giving up.

Terry:
At least I'm gonna have a try at it. If I can act, I want the world to know it. If I can't, I want to know it.

Eve:
Even your best friends won't tell you.

Terry:
It would be a terrific innovation if you could get your minds stretched a little further than the next wisecrack.

Eve:
You know I tried that once, but it didn't snap back into place.

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