Hotel for Women

{{short description|1939 film by Gregory Ratoff}}

{{Infobox film

| name = Hotel for Women

| image = Hotel for Women (1939) Poster.jpg

| caption = Poster by Bradshaw Crandell

| director = Gregory Ratoff

| producer = {{ubl|Raymond Griffith|Darryl F. Zanuck}}

| writer = {{ubl|Elsa Maxwell|Kathryn Scola|Darrell Ware}}

| narrator =

| starring = {{ubl|Ann Sothern|Linda Darnell|James Ellison}}

| music = {{ubl|David Buttolph|Cyril J. Mockridge}}

| cinematography = J. Peverell Marley

| editing = Louis R. Loeffler

| studio = Cosmopolitan Productions

| distributor = 20th Century-Fox

| released = {{Film date|1939|08|04}}

| runtime = 83 minutes

| country = United States

| language = English

| budget =

| gross =

}}

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.Davis p.46{{cite web|title=Elsa Maxwell's Hotel for Women|url=http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=7768|website=AFI Catalof of Feature Films|publisher=afi.com|accessdate=21 December 2015}} As work published in 1939, it will enter the American public domain in 2035 following its renewal in 1967.{{Cite book |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015084450975&seq=234&q1=hotel |title=Catalog of copyright entries. Ser.3 pt.12-13 v.20-23 1966-1969 Motion Pictures |publisher=Library of Congress |year=1969}}

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==

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Production

The film's sets were designed by the art directors Richard Day and Joseph C. Wright.

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Bibliography

  • Davis, Ronald L. Hollywood Beauty: Linda Darnell and the American Dream. University of Oklahoma Press, 2014.