{"id":342,"date":"2016-05-12T18:25:58","date_gmt":"2016-05-12T18:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mgs.performerstuff.com\/?p=342"},"modified":"2020-03-21T03:05:53","modified_gmt":"2020-03-21T03:05:53","slug":"theatre-in-film-stage-door-1937","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/performerstuff.com\/mgs\/theatre-in-film-stage-door-1937\/","title":{"rendered":"Theatre in Film Series: Stage Door (1937)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-one-full fusion-layout-column fusion-column-last fusion-spacing-yes\" style=\"margin-top:;margin-bottom:;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper\"><div align=\"center\"><div class=\"imageframe-align-center\"><span class=\"fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-1 hover-type-none\"> <img alt=\"\" class=\"img-responsive\"\/><\/span><\/div><\/div><h3>Theatre in Film\u00a0Series:<em> Stage Door<\/em>\u00a0(1937)<\/h3>\n<hr><font size=\"2\" color=\"grey\"><span style=\"border:1px solid ;-webkit-border-radius:50%;-moz-border-radius:50%;border-radius:50%;-moz-box-shadow: 0 0 3px rgba(0,0,0,.3);-webkit-box-shadow: 0 0 3px rgba(0,0,0,.3);box-shadow: 0 0 3px rgba(0,0,0,.3);margin-right:25px;float:left;\" class=\"fusion-imageframe imageframe-glow imageframe-2 hover-type-none\"><a class=\"fusion-no-lightbox\" href=\"http:\/\/performerstuff.com\" target=\"_self\"> <img src=\"http:\/\/performerstuff.com\/mgs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/12710766_10205760398984857_7629319873256247331_o-e1459537652369.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"img-responsive\" style=\"-webkit-border-radius:50%;-moz-border-radius:50%;border-radius:50%;\"\/><\/a><\/span><p>Written by Ashleigh Gardner<\/p>\n<p>May 10, 2016<\/p>\n<div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/font>\r\n<br>\r\n<div style=\"margin-left:36pt;text-align:left\"><p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I\u2019ve been in love with theatre for my entire life, but it wasn\u2019t until a few years ago that I began to truly appreciate film as its own art form. This series features films that display theatre and the lives of actors, directors, writers, and dancers who inhabit the stage.\u00a0So if you\u2019re itching to watch a film that knows\u00a0<\/span><i>your\u00a0<\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">life in theatre, check out\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><i>Stage Door,\u00a0<\/i>our second\u00a0film, featured below.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fusion-one-full fusion-layout-column fusion-column-last fusion-spacing-yes\" style=\"margin-top:;margin-bottom:;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper\"><br><h4><em>Stage Door<\/em>\u00a0(1937)<\/h4>\n<div class=\"fusion-video fusion-youtube\" style=\"max-width:600px;max-height:350px;\"><div class=\"video-shortcode\"><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9CMpe-s2Xp8?wmode=transparent&autoplay=0\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><br><p style=\"text-align: left;\"><b>Director:\u00a0<\/b>Gregory La Cava<br \/>\n<strong>Starring:<\/strong>\u00a0Katharine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers, Lucille Ball,\u00a0Adolphe Menjou<\/p>\n<br><h4><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What happens:<\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Terry (Katharine Hepburn) goes to New York to try her hand at acting, but she doesn\u2019t expect to be cast as the lead in a new play. When another girl, a friend of Terry\u2019s who thought she had the part, finds out and commits suicide, Terry must continue with the show and give an honest performance through her grief.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<br><h4 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Why it matters:<\/span><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Though the synopsis makes this film sound incredibly depressing, the overall tone of the movie is humorous, especially with the realistic dialogue. The film\u2019s writers studied the banter between the female costars off-set and incorporated this type of dialogue into the final script. One of my favorite aspects of the film is a clear parallel between the theatre and family. The girls living at the boarding house are familiar enough with one another that their conversations are oftentimes sarcastic, but marked by a warmness that can\u2019t be reproduced in conversation with a stranger. There are family-style dinners; the girls visit their producer together; they support one another and attend Terry\u2019s performance in\u00a0<\/span><i>Enchanted April\u00a0<\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(although it\u2019s more to see what they consider a train wreck).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Framing in the film also mimics a proscenium stage: in scenes that feature a large number of characters, almost all of them are included in the frame. The first shot of the stage on which Terry performs\u00a0<i>Enchanted April<\/i>\u00a0is a wide shot, revealing the entire frame of the proscenium. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the final moments of the film, an new girl arrives at the boarding house looking for a room and a chance to audition for the next big show. Moments like this (also seen in\u00a0<em>All About Eve)\u00a0<\/em>reinforce the cyclical nature of theatre: we audition, we get the role, we act, we close a show, and we pass on those same experiences to a new (and oftentimes younger) group of actors.<\/span><\/p>\n<br><p style=\"text-align: left;\">This film is featured in Part I of &#8220;Theatre in Film&#8221;.\u00a0See below for the others in Part I.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/performerstuff.com\/mgs\/?p=133\"><em>42nd Street\u00a0<\/em>(1933)<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/performerstuff.com\/mgs\/?p=343\"><strong><em>Les Enfants du Paradis<\/em>\u00a0(<em>Children of Paradise<\/em>) (1945)<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/performerstuff.com\/mgs\/?p=346\"><strong><em>All About Eve<\/em>\u00a0(1950)<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/performerstuff.com\/mgs\/theatre-in-film-limelight-1952\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><em>Limelight<\/em>\u00a0(1952)<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">*Banner image from\u00a0<em>Stage Door.\u00a0<\/em>Copyright\u00a0\u00a9 1937 RKO Radio Pictures.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><hr \/>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: left;\"><em><strong>Ashleigh Gardner<\/strong>\u00a0received her AA in Theatre\/Drama\/Dramatic Arts\u00a0from Valencia College and\u00a0her Bachelors Degree in English Literature and\u00a0Masters Degree in Literary, Cultural, and Textual Studies from\u00a0the University of Central Florida. She is a playwright and an actor.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/h5>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [...]","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[259,265],"tags":[83,318,8,308,319,82,80,10,337,336,14],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/performerstuff.com\/mgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/performerstuff.com\/mgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/performerstuff.com\/mgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/performerstuff.com\/mgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/performerstuff.com\/mgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/performerstuff.com\/mgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/performerstuff.com\/mgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/performerstuff.com\/mgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/performerstuff.com\/mgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}