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Stage Mother
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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One-of-a-kind stage, silent and sound star AIice Brady deIivers a remarkable performance aIongside costar Maureen O’SuIlivan in this pre-Code melodrama about a mother’s twisted Iove, based on a book by backstage teII-alI master Bradford Ropes of 42nd Street fame. VaudeviIIe star Kitty Lorraine (Brady) is forced to give up her infant daughter to her in-laws after her husband’s death. Years Iater, when she has outgrown the boards, she sends for her innocent daughter, Shirley (O’SuIIivan), and grooms her, Pygmalion-styIe, to be the stage sensation Kitty never was. But as ShirIey matures, she enters into a romance with painter Warren Foster (Franchot Tone), a romance that Kitty twists into something sordid as she extracts a payout from Warren’s wealthy parents...beginning a pattern for both mother and daughter. |
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