Stage Door (1937)
Comedy, Drama • 1h 32m
Director: Gregory La Cava
Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers, Adolphe Menjou, Gail Patrick, Constance Collier, Andrea Leeds, Samuel S. Hinds, Lucille Ball, Franklin Pangborn, William Corson, Pierre Watkin, Grady Sutton, Frank Reicher, Jack Carson, Phyllis Kennedy, Eve Arden, Ann Miller, Margaret Early, Jean Rouverol, Elizabeth Dunne, Norma Drury, Betty Jane Rhodes, Peggy O'Donnell, Jan Wiley, Katharine Alexander, Ralph Forbes, Mary Forbes, Huntley Gordon, Frances Gifford, Theodore von Eltz, Lynn Gabriel, Fred Santley, Theodore Kosloff, Harry Strang, Al Hill, Max Wagner, Florence Wix, Bert Stevens, D'Arcy Corrigan, Pamela Blake, Mary Bovard, Lynton Brent, Jack Gardner, Jack Gargan, Diana Gibson, Lynda Grey, Ben Hendricks Jr., Vicky Joyce, Julie Kingdon, Ada Leonard, Jack Montgomery, Gerda Mora, Philip Morris, Edmund Mortimer, George Nardelli, Bob Perry, Jack Rice, Jack Richardson, Larry Steers, Mary Stewart, Josephine Whittell
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Overview
The ups and downs in the lives and careers of a group of ambitious young actresses and show girls from disparate backgrounds brought together in a theatrical hostel. Centres particularly on the conflict and growing friendship between Terry Randall, a rich girl confident in her talent and ability to make it to the top on the stage, and Jean Maitland, a world weary and cynical trouper who has taken the hard knocks of the ruthless and over-populated world of the Broadway apprentice.
Director: Gregory La Cava
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Although there's a bit of aggressive grain management see https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.php?p=15853770&postcount=43
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Director: Bruce Robinson
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Arrow 4K Blu-ray has stronger encode than Criterion
Director: Olivier Assayas
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Encoding is clunky on both Arrow and Criterion BDs but Arrow at least included the original stereo mix in addition to the 5.1 remix, while Criterion only included the 5.1 remix.
Director: Morton DaCosta
Warner Archive 4K Blu-ray Nov 24th
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4K restoration from Original Camera Negative for all episodes
Director: Norman Taurog
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
Director: Delbert Mann
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
Director: Garson Kanin
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