Stage Door (1937)

Actors

• Lynton Brent (actor)
• Edgar Norton (actor)
• Jack Carson (actor)
• Ralph Forbes (actor)
• D'Arcy Corrigan (actor)
• Jack Gargan (actor)
• Huntley Gordon (actor)
• Ben Hendricks Jr. (actor)
• Al Hill (actor)
• Samuel S. Hinds (actor)
• Jack Gardner (actor)
• Adolphe Menjou (actor)
• Philip Morris (actor)
• Edmund Mortimer (actor)
• Franklin Pangborn (actor)

Genres

• Comedy
• Drama

Taglines:

Brilliant In Cast And Story
GREAT STARS! GREAT STORY! GREAT PICTURE! (original print ad - all caps)
The gaiety...glamour...foolishness and fun of showbusiness...played on the Great White Way

Quotes:

Jean Maitland: When I get back to my room, you're the only thing I want to find missing.

Jean Maitland: Hey, you're not gonna catch the opening tonight, huh?::Eve: No, I'm going tomorrow and catch the closing.

Eve: [after a dinner where Terry Randall has evidently spoken very eloquently about Shakespeare] Well, I don't like to gossip, but that new gal seems to have an awful crush on Shakespeare!::Susan: [jokingly] I wouldn't be surprised if they get married!::Mary Lou: [with genuine naiveté] Oh, you're foolin'! Shakespeare's dead!::Susan: [Feigning surprise, playing along to entertain the others] No!::Mary Lou: Well, if he's the same one that wrote "Hamlet", he is!::Eve: [playing along, too] Never heard of it.::Mary Lou: Well, certainly you must have heard of "Hamlet"!::Eve: Well, I meet so many people.

Terry Randall: [delivering her opening speech in the play within the movie] The calla lilies are in bloom again. Such a strange flower, suitable to any occasion. I carried them on my wedding day and now I place them here in memory of something that has died.

Terry Randall: [giving her curtain speech at the end of a trimphant opening night performance of the play within the movie] The person you should be applauding died a few hours ago. I hope that wherever she is, she knows and understands and forgives.

Terry Randall: I see that, in addition to your other charms, you have that insolence generated by an inferior upbringing.::Jean Maitland: Hmm! Fancy clothes, fancy language and everything!::Terry Randall: Unfortunately, I learned to speak English correctly.::Jean Maitland: That won't be of much use to you here. We all talk pig latin.

Jean Maitland: We started off on the wrong foot. Let's stay that way.

Judy Canfield: Do you want a date?::Jean Maitland: To some other lumberman?::Judy Canfield: Am I supposed to apologize for being born in Seattle?::Jean Maitland: Well, the last couple we went stepping with were made of lumber. Especially their feet.::Judy Canfield: All right, all right, you can stay here and gorge yourself on lamb stew again.

Terry Randall: [entering the boarding house after trying the wrong door] How many doors are there to this place?::Jean Maitland: Well, there's the trap door, the humidor, and the cuspidor. How many doors would you like?

Linda Shaw: If you were a little more considerate of your elders, maybe Mr. Powell would send his car for you someday. Of course, he would probably take one look at you and send you right back again, but then you have to expect that.::Jean Maitland: Is that so?::Linda Shaw: Do you know, I think I could fix you up with Mr. Powell's chauffeur. The chauffeur has a very nice car too.::Jean Maitland: Yes, but I understand Mr. Powell's chauffeur doesn't go as far in his car as Mr. Powell does.::Linda Shaw: Even a chauffer has to have an incentive!::Jean Maitland: Well, you should know!

Powell, Anthony Filmography

• À l'abordage - L'aventure de pirates
  2009, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Miss Potter
  2006, role: costume designer
• Filming 'Tess'
  2004, role: actor , character name: Himself
• 'Tess': From Novel to Screen
  2004, role: actor , character name: Himself
• 'Tess': The Experience
  2004, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Capriccio
  2004, role: costume designer
• Indiana Jones: Making the Trilogy
  2003, role: actor , character name: Himself
• 102 Dalmatians
  2000, role: costume designer
• The Ninth Gate
  1999, role: costume designer
• The Avengers
  1998, role: costume designer
• 101 Dalmatians
  1996, role: costume designer
• Hook
  1991, role: costume designer
• Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
  1989, role: costume designer
• Frantic
  1988, role: costume designer
• Ishtar
  1987, role: costume designer
• Pirates
  1986, role: costume designer
• Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
  1984, role: actor , character name: Missionary
• Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
  1984, role: costume designer
• Evil Under the Sun
  1982, role: costume designer
• Priest of Love
  1981, role: costume designer
• Tess
  1979, role: costume designer
• The 51st Annual Academy Awards
  1979, role: actor , character name: Himself - Winner: Best Costume Design
• Death on the Nile
  1978, role: costume designer
• Sorcerer
  1977, role: costume designer
• Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson
  1976, role: costume designer
• That Lucky Touch
  1975, role: costume designer
• Papillon
  1973, role: costume designer
• Travels with My Aunt
  1972, role: costume designer
• The Royal Hunt of the Sun
  1969, role: costume designer

Powell, Anthony Filmography

• Antarctica: A Year on Ice
  2013, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Antarctica: A Year on Ice
  2013, role: producer
• Antarctica: A Year on Ice
  2013, role: writer
• Antarctica: A Year on Ice
  2013, role: director

Powell, Anthony Filmography

• Zwei Nasen tanken Super
  1984, role: actor
• The Case of the Frightened Lady
  1983, role: actor , character name: Dr. Lester Charles Amersham
• Ragtime
  1981, role: actor , character name: Policeman #9
• Black Island
  1979, role: actor , character name: River Police Constable

Famous quotes by Anthony Powell:

"It's more about faith and how God speaks to you and how it happens. I don't think I've worked on a play with such an even keel."

"We will never forget what he did for us."

"[His wife shuddered thinking of the terrifying tide of corpses floating in the flood.] I couldn't go back to that, ... Some of them could be my family."

"An immediate, overpowering, almost mystic sense of relief took shape within me. I felt suddenly sure everything was going to be all right. This was something quite apart from even the most cursory reflection upon strategic implications involved."

"People think that because a novel's invented, it isn't true. Exactly the reverse is the case. Biography and memoirs can never be wholly true, since they cannot include every conceivable circumstance of what happened. The novel can do that."

"Slowly, but very deliberately, the brooding edifice of seduction, creaking and incongruous, came into being, a vast Heath Robinson mechanism, dually controlled by them and lumbering gloomily down vistas of triteness. With a sort of heavy-fisted dexterity the mutually adapted emotions of each of them became synchronized, until the unavoidable anti-climax was at hand."

"Self-love seems so often unrequited."

"He fell in love with himself at first sight, and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Self-love seems so often unrequited."

"Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years."

"Books do furnish a room."

"Growing old's like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed."

"Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going on."

"Parents - especially step-parents - are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years."