Hotel for Women
1939 film by Gregory Ratoff
- Elsa Maxwell
- Kathryn Scola
- Darrell Ware
- Raymond Griffith
- Darryl F. Zanuck
- Ann Sothern
- Linda Darnell
- James Ellison
- David Buttolph
- Cyril J. Mockridge
Production
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Cosmopolitan Productions
Release date
- August 4, 1939 (1939-08-04)
Running time
Hotel for Women (or Elsa Maxwell's Hotel for Women) is a 1939 American drama film directed by Gregory Ratoff and starring Ann Sothern, Linda Darnell, and James Ellison. It was Darnell's screen debut.[1][2] As work published in 1939, it will enter the American public domain in 2035 following its renewal in 1967.[3]
Plot
When she is jilted by her boyfriend, a young woman is encouraged to become a model by the women at the hotel where she is staying.
Cast
- Linda Darnell as Marcia Bromley
- James Ellison as Jeff Buchanan
- Ann Sothern as Eileen Connelly
- Jean Rogers as Nancy Prescott
- Lynn Bari as Barbara Hunter
- June Gale as Joan Mitchell
- Joyce Compton as Emeline Thomas
- Elsa Maxwell as Mrs. Tilford
- John Halliday as John Craig
- Kay Aldridge as Melinda Craig
- Alan Dinehart as Stephen Gates
- Sidney Blackmer as McNeil
- Amanda Duff as Receptionist
- Ruth Terry as Craig's Receptionist
- Chick Chandler as Ben Ritchie
Production
The film's sets were designed by the art directors Richard Day and Joseph C. Wright.
References
Bibliography
- Davis, Ronald L. Hollywood Beauty: Linda Darnell and the American Dream. University of Oklahoma Press, 2014.
External links
- Hotel for Women at IMDb
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Films directed by Gregory Ratoff
- Sins of Man (1936)
- Lancer Spy (1937)
- Wife, Husband and Friend (1939)
- Rose of Washington Square (1939)
- Hotel for Women (1939)
- Intermezzo (1939)
- Day-Time Wife (1939)
- Barricade (1939)
- I Was an Adventuress (1940)
- Public Deb No. 1 (1940)
- Adam Had Four Sons (1941)
- The Corsican Brothers (1941)
- The Men in Her Life (1941)
- Two Yanks in Trinidad (1942)
- Footlight Serenade (1942)
- Something to Shout About (1943)
- The Heat's On (1943)
- Song of Russia (1944)
- Irish Eyes Are Smiling (1944)
- Where Do We Go from Here? (1945)
- Paris Underground (1945)
- Do You Love Me (1946)
- Carnival in Costa Rica (1947)
- Moss Rose (1947)
- That Dangerous Age (1949)
- Black Magic (1949)
- My Daughter Joy (1950)
- Taxi (1953)
- Abdulla the Great (1955)
- Oscar Wilde (1960)
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