Editing Stage Door (section)

==Reception==
===Box office===
''Stage Door'' grossed  $1,762,000 at the United States [[box office]], for small profit of $81,000.<ref name="rko"/>

===Critical response===
The film received favorable reviews from critics, with ''[[Film Daily]]'' declaring it one of the ten best films of the year.<ref name=AFI/> Frank S. Nugent of ''[[The New York Times]]'' described it as a "brilliant picture" with "amazingly good" performances,<ref name=TCMarticles/> and summarized the film as "a magnificently devastating reply on Hollywood's behalf to all the catty little remarks that George Kaufman and Edna Ferber had made about it in their play."<ref>{{cite news|last=Nugent|first=Frank S.|date=October 8, 1937|work=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1937/10/08/archives/the-screen-stage-door-hollywood-edition-opens-at-the-music-hallthis.html|title=THE' SCREEN; ' Stage Door,' Hollywood Edition, Opens at the Music Hall-'This Way, Please' at the Criterion|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241127122053/https://www.nytimes.com/1937/10/08/archives/the-screen-stage-door-hollywood-edition-opens-at-the-music-hallthis.html|archive-date=November 27, 2024}}</ref>

The reviewer in ''[[The Times]]'' wrote of January 3, 1938, after the film's London premiere at the [[Odeon Marble Arch|Regal]] on December 31, 1937:
{{blockquote|text=Stories of life on the stage have always appealed to Hollywood: here success is sensational and meteoric, and failure equally sudden and dramatic. We know the formula by heart, and expect of our entertainment that it shall be rowdy, aggressive, and spectacular, culminating in the rise of the central character to fame in the bright lights of Broadway. ''Stage Door'' is rowdy and aggressive, and it does end in success for one of its characters and failure for another, but for all that it is a film of unusual insight and characterization. (...) The dialogue is brilliant, with typical American point and brevity, but nearly always spiteful and cruel, for these girls are the product of a hard environment. Three stand out from among the rest: Miss Katharine Hepburn (...) Miss Ginger Rogers (...) Miss Andrea Leeds.| source="New films in London: Back-stage tragedy", ''[[The Times]]'', January 3, 1938, p. 10.}}

Hepburn's four movies preceding ''Stage Door'' had been commercial failures. However, as a result of the positive response to this performance, RKO immediately cast her opposite [[Cary Grant]] in the screwball comedy ''[[Bringing Up Baby]]'' (1938).

===Accolades===
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! scope="row" rowspan="4" | [[Academy Awards]]
| rowspan="4"| [[10th Academy Awards|1938]]
| [[Academy Award for Best Picture|Outstanding Production]]
| RKO Radio Pictures
| {{nom}}
| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="4"| <ref>{{cite web|url=http://awardsdatabase.oscars.org/search/results|work=[[Academy Awards]]|title=Stage Door: Oscars Awards Database|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20131120195241/http://awardsdatabase.oscars.org/ampas_awards/DisplayMain.jsp?curTime=1384922394087|archive-date=November 20, 2013|publisher=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]]}}</ref>
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| [[Academy Award for Best Director|Best Director]]
| [[Gregory La Cava]]
| {{nom}}
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| [[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress|Best Supporting Actress]]
| [[Andrea Leeds]]
| {{nom}}
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| [[Academy Award for Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay)|Best Screenplay Adaptation]]
| [[Morris Ryskind]], [[Anthony Veiller]]
| {{nom}}
|-
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