January 3 movie: Stage Door. Tremendous ensemble movie about young women sharing a boarding house and trying to break into the theater. The cast is amazing: Ginger Rogers, Katharine Hepburn, Lucille Ball, Eve Arden, Ann Miller, Adolphe Menjou, and that's just to start. Constance Collier (the mean older sister in My Man Godfrey) has a nice turn as a jaded goldigger, as does Andrea Leeds as the movie's tragic figure. This is very much a women's story. They don't go all the way to the all-female cast gimmick like The Women, but the few male characters are nearly invisible. Menjou plays the only male part you could even call a character.
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The older sister of "My Man Godfrey" was Gail Patrick, not Constance Collier