Stage Door Canteen DVD Katharine Hepburn Ray Bolger (1943)
Most of the story takes place at the Stage Door Canteen, a Manhattan-based home away from home for soldiers, sailors and marines (the real-life Canteen on 44th street was too busy to lend itself to filming, thus the interiors were recreated in Hollywood). Within the walls of this non-profit establishment, servicemen are entertained by top musical, comedy and dramatic acts, and waited on by such Broadway luminaries as Lunt and Fontanne, Katharine Hepburn, Jane Cowl, Katherine Cornell, Tallulah Bankhead, Helen Hayes, Cornelia Otis Skinner, Sam Jaffe and Paul Muni. Though the plotline-one of the Canteen servers, a girl named Eileen (Cheryl Walker) falls in love with one of the visiting soldiers (William Terry), despite the establishment's strict "no dating" rules-is merely an excuse to link together a series of specialty acts, it is superbly and touchingly directed by Frank Borzage.
Cheryl Walker - Eileen
William Terry - Ed "Dakota" Smith
Marjorie Riordan - Jean Rule
Lon McCallister - "California"
Margaret Early - Ella Sue
Michael Harrison - "Texas"
Dorothea Kent - Mamie
Fred Brady - "Jersey" Wallace
Marion Shockley - Lillian
Pat O'Moore - The Australian
Judith Anderson - Herself
Kenny Baker
Tallulah Bankhead - Guest
Ralph Bellamy - Guest
Edgar Bergen
Ray Bolger
Ina Claire
Katharine Cornell
Jane Cowl
Virginia Field
Gracie Fields - Guest
Lynn Fontanne
Virginia Grey
Helen Hayes
Katharine Hepburn - Herself
Hugh Herbert
Jean Hersholt
Sam Jaffe
Allen Jenkins
George Jessel
Otto Kruger
Gypsy Rose Lee
Alfred Lunt
Aline MacMahon
Elsa Maxwell
Harpo Marx
Yehudi Menuhin
Ethel Merman
Ralph Morgan
Alan Mowbray
Paul Muni - Guest
Merle Oberon - Guest
George Raft - Dishwasher
Lanny Ross
Selena Royle
Martha Scott
Cornelia Otis Skinner
Ned Sparks
Bill Stern
Ethel Waters
Arleen Whelan
Dame May Whitty
Ed Wynn - Guest Bit
Elliott Nugent
Guy Lombardo & Orchestra
Henry Armetta
Count Basie and His Orchestra
Helen Broderick
Sunset Carson - "Texas"
Lloyd Corrigan
Xavier Cugat
Jane Darwell
William Demarest
Dorothy Fields
Arlene Francis
Billy Gilbert
Lucille Gleason
Benny Goodman
Vera Gordon
Mack Gray - Waiter
Roscoe Karns
Tom Kennedy
Kay Kyser
June Lang
Betty Lawford
Gertrude Lawrence
Peggy Lee
Freddy Martin and his Orchestra
Dummy: Charlie McCarthy
Franklin Pangborn
Helen Parrish
Brock Pemberton
Francis Pierlot
Ruth Roman - Bit Part
Lina Romay
Johnny Weissmuller
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