A spirited heiress wishing to break into theatre on her own merit arrives at a boardinghouse where aspiring young actresses and showgirls are brought together through their cynicism and disappointments.
Acting
Hepburn's unbending idealism vs. Rogers' world-weary cynicism — pure electricity
Writing
Dialogue so fast and vicious it makes His Girl Friday look polite
Director
Gregory La Cava
Katharine Hepburn
Terry Randall
Ginger Rogers
Jean Maitland
Adolphe Menjou
Anthony Powell
Gail Patrick
Linda Shaw
Constance Collier
Miss Luther
Andrea Leeds
Kay Hamilton
Samuel S. Hinds
Henry Sims
Lucille Ball
Judith
Franklin Pangborn
Harcourt
Pierre Watkin
Carmichael
Grady Sutton
Butch
Frank Reicher
Stage Director
Jack Carson
Mr. Milbanks
Phyllis Kennedy
Hattie
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Hepburn and Rogers reportedly loathed each other off-screen, which only sharpened their on-screen rivalry.
The film's brutal honesty about sexual exploitation in theatre was possible only because it was made before the Hays Code fully clamped down in 1934.
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