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!!This play contains the examples of:

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A [[TheFilmOfThePlay film adaptation]] was made in 1937, directed by Gregory La Cava and starring Creator/KatharineHepburn, Creator/GingerRogers, Adolphe Menjou, Gail Patrick, and Creator/LucilleBall.

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A [[TheFilmOfThePlay [[Film/StageDoor film adaptation]] was made in 1937, directed by Gregory La Cava and starring Creator/KatharineHepburn, Creator/GingerRogers, Adolphe Menjou, Gail Patrick, Creator/KatharineHepburn and Creator/LucilleBall.
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Stage Door is a play written by Edna Ferber and George S. Kaufman following the lives of several young aspiring actresses living in the fictional Footlights Club in New York City.

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Stage Door ''Stage Door'' is a 1936 play written by Edna Ferber and George S. Kaufman Kaufman, following the lives of several young aspiring young actresses living in the fictional Footlights Club in New York City. City.

A [[TheFilmOfThePlay film adaptation]] was made in 1937, directed by Gregory La Cava and starring Creator/KatharineHepburn, Creator/GingerRogers, Adolphe Menjou, Gail Patrick, and Creator/LucilleBall.
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* LoveTriangle: Between Terry, Keith, and Kingsley.
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* BrooklynRage: Invoked by Bernice while she's showing off her acting skills for David Kingsley. One of the characters she performs is a little girl from Brooklyn.
--> "Listen, I did write for an appurtment! You got a noive!"
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* SouthernBelle: Bobby.
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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: After being found out by her mother, Linda immediately decides to pack all of her things and leave the Footlights Club to an undisclosed location.
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* SillyRabbitRomanceIsForKids: Spoken almost verbatim by Keith, who refuses to write about romance because "romance is for babies."
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* {{Foil}}: Jean to Terry. Jean is a less than spectacular actress who becomes extremely successful in the movie business while Terry is a great actress who struggles to keep a career in the theatre.
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* BigGuyLittleGuy: Little and Big Mary, respectively.

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* BigGuyLittleGuy: Little and Big Mary, [[{{Irony}} respectively.]]
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->''The theatre is something that’s fine on for hundreds and hundreds of years. It’s-I don’t know-it’s part of civilization."'''

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->''The theatre is something that’s fine gone on for hundreds and hundreds of years. It’s-I don’t know-it’s part of civilization."'''
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* TheMistress: [[spoiler: Linda]] though we never see the man she's seeing.
* YouNoTakeCandle: Given that she is a native Russian, most of Olga’s lines are written this way.
--> “So you are a big actress now, eh Jean? You are going to be starred in a play.”

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* TheMistress: [[spoiler: Linda]] though we never see the man she's seeing.
* YouNoTakeCandle: Given that she is a native Russian, most of Olga’s lines are written this way.
--> “So you are a big actress now, eh Jean? You are going to be starred in a play.”
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* {{Jerkass}}: Most of the men are portrayed this way. Adolph Gretzl takes the cake though.
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* MeaningfulEcho: Terry’s “greatest actress in the world” speech. She originally delivers it to Berger, then repeats it and the end of the show to Gretzl.

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