Editing Stage Door (section)

===Filming===
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Principal photography for ''Stage Door'' began on June 7, 1937, and was completed on July 31, 1937.<ref name=AFI/> Director [[Gregory La Cava]] also allowed the actresses to ad lib and improvise dialogue during filming, which earned him praise from stars Leeds and Rogers.<ref name=TCMarticles/> Hepburn's famous lines during the play within the film, "The calla lilies are in bloom again. Such a strange flower, suitable to any occasion. I carried them on my wedding day and now I place them here in memory of something that has died," are from ''[[The Lake (play)|The Lake]]'' (1934), the play for which [[Dorothy Parker]] panned Hepburn's performance as "running the gamut of emotions from A to B."<ref>{{Cite web| url=https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/09/26/gamut-emotion/| title=She Runs the Gamut of Emotions from A to B| last=O'Toole| first=Garson| date=September 27, 2013| website=[[Quote Investigator]]| access-date=January 25, 2020}}</ref>