Stage Mother (1933) on DVD

Actor :          Alice Brady, Maureen O'Sullivan, Franchot Tone, Phillips Holmes, Ted Healy
Director:      Charles Brabin
Genre:           Drama
Year:              1933
Studio:           Warner Archive Collection
Length:          85 minutes
Released:      29 September 1933
Rating:            Not Rated
Format:           NTSC
Misc:               NTSC
Language:      English
subtitles:        N/A

DESCRIPTION:

One-of-a-kind stage, silent and sound star Alice Brady delivers a remarkable performance alongside costar Maureen O’Sullivan in this pre-Code melodrama about a mother’s twisted love, based on a book by backstage tell-all master Bradford Ropes of 42nd Street fame. Vaudeville star Kitty Lorraine (Brady) is forced to give up her infant daughter to her in-laws after her husband’s death. Years later, when she has outgrown the boards, she sends for her innocent daughter, Shirley (O’Sullivan), and grooms her, Pygmalion-style, to be the stage sensation Kitty never was. But as Shirley 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.