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==
{{cast listing|
- Linda Darnell as Marcia Bromley
- James Ellison as Jeff Buchanan
- Ann Sothern as Eileen Connelly
- Jean Rogers as Nancy Prescott
- Lynn Bari as Barbara Hunter
- June Gale as Joan Mitchell
- Joyce Compton as Emeline Thomas
- Elsa Maxwell as Mrs. Tilford
- John Halliday as John Craig
- Kay Aldridge as Melinda Craig
- Alan Dinehart as Stephen Gates
- Sidney Blackmer as McNeil
- Amanda Duff as Receptionist
- Ruth Terry as Craig's Receptionist
- Chick Chandler as Ben Ritchie
}}
Production
The film's sets were designed by the art directors Richard Day and Joseph C. Wright.
References
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Bibliography
- Davis, Ronald L. Hollywood Beauty: Linda Darnell and the American Dream. University of Oklahoma Press, 2014.
External links
- {{IMDb title|0031447}}
{{Gregory Ratoff}}
Category:Films directed by Gregory Ratoff
Category:20th Century Fox films
Category:American black-and-white films
Category:Films with screenplays by Kathryn Scola
Category:1930s English-language films
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