Trivia / Stage Door

• Actor-Inspired Element: Eve Arden had become friendly with a cat on the RKO lot, and when director Gregory LaCava saw this, he used the cat in the movie.
• Actor-Shared Background: Miss Luther ends up coaching, or teaching, Terry acting. In real life, Constance Collier was a renowned acting teacher (as well as actress), and she ended up teaching Katharine Hepburn Shakespearean acting.
• The Danza: Eve Arden's character is named Eve, and Ann Miller's character is named Annie.
• Enforced Method Acting: The cast was made to hang out for several weeks, and most of the banter in the movie came from that.
• Friendship on the Set: Ginger Rogers and Ann Miller became lifelong friend after filming this movie together.
• Irony as She Is Cast:
  • Katharine Hepburn had already won an Oscar when she was cast as the talent-free Terry Randall. She does get better, though.
  • Also, the little-known Andrea Leeds played Kaye Hamilton, considered by the others to be the best actress in the bunch.
  • Part of the reason Judy marries at the end is she realizes that her acting career is never going to go anywhere. Judy is played by Lucille Ball.
• Real-Life Relative: The picture of the woman Anthony Powell is passing off as his wife is the picture of Adolphe Menjou's wife in real life.
• Those Two Actors: Ginger Rogers and Lucille Ball had appeared together the previous year in Follow the Fleet