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For RKO 1937, Katharine Hepburn runs the gamut of emotions from effervescent-but-repressed to robot-with-a-heart-of-gold in the last entry in her latest series of box office bombs, the J. M. Barrie dual-identity farce\xa0Quality Street\xa0(directed by George Stevens), and her brief return to critical and commercial viability,\xa0Stage Door\xa0(directed by Gregory La Cava), with Ginger Rogers. Two films that have little in common besides their star but do both invert the typical Hollywood movie gender ratio. We discuss whether\xa0Quality Street\xa0lives up to Hepburn's reunion with either her\xa0Alice Adams\xa0director or her\xa0Little Minister\xa0source author, and dig into the class analysis of\xa0Stage Door, one of the best American comedies of the late '30s.

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0h 01m 00s:\xa0 \xa0 \xa0 \xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0 RKO Data

0h 03m 55s:\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0 \xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0 QUALITY STREET [dir. George Stevens]

0h 24m 15s:\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0 \xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0 STAGE DOOR [dir. Gregory La Cava]

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Studio Film Capsules provided by The RKO Story by Richard B. Jewell & Vernon Harbin

Additional studio information from: The Hollywood Story by Joel W. Finler

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