Stage Door

Stage Door suffers from a pre-feminist Hollywood version of strong women, who never seem to do anything without having a man behind them. Hepburn is the only one of a large cast of women who really isn't a pretty little unsuccessful flower. She is her typically strong empowered female, and is also the only three-dimensional character in the movie. Shame that this movie didn't do much for me, since I'm such a big fan of Katharine Hepburn. Ginger Rogers was not too bad, either, but her best scenes were playing off her rivalry with Hepburn. Lucille Ball was almost unrecognizable since she wasn't stuffing her face with candies from an assembly line. The use of overlapping dialogue was nice to see in a non-Hawks or Altman film, even if it was actually too overlapping to be completely clear.