Stage Door

Pros: Nice ensemble. The refreshing lack of romance.
Cons: Somewhat bewildering.

The opening sequence of 1937’s Stage Door left me feeling like I’d accidentally walked into the wrong bathroom. The scene is a boarding house for aspiring actresses, where a dozen girls run their mouths a mile a minute, me struggling just ...

Pros: Great witty dialog; precision directing; excellent camera work and editing.
Cons: So much going on at times, it can confuse.

Framed and shot as though a stage play – which it was originally, but much changed for the film – and with a stage play within the staged play, everybody in this witty farce contributes to deliver an almost non-stop, wise-cracking, virtuoso ...

Pros: Hepburn and Rogers. Intelligent portrayal of women
Cons: Leeds wasn't so great.

Before I begin my epinion on this movie, allow me a little griping space. I should have loved 'The Women'. A movie with an all female cast! Just the thing for my Susan B Anthony coin collecting little self to devour. Well, it might have helped if the...

Pros: cast, screenplay, direction, story
Cons: characters are sometimes stereotyped

During the 1980s, some of the most successful sitcoms were based on witty women exchanging clever barbs. "The Golden Girls", "Designing Women", and "The Facts of Life" were hardly revolutionary, however, as their formula had been established many...

Pros: Great acting !
Cons: No sequel.

I originally saw this movie because Katherine Hepburn starred in it. And being a huge fan I wasn't disappointed.

This is a fabulous example of why we call old films classics...This one definitely is! The acting is wonderful and runs the...