Stage Struck (1958)

Storyline

The movie tells the story of Eva, a girl who comes to New York in order to become a great actress. With hard work she succeeds in working at a theatre and finally gets her chance on stage after a lot of changes and difficulties. Stage Struck, the 1958 Sidney Lumet New York City Broadway romantic theater stage acting melodrama (“Ten Thousand Girls Dream Her Dream Every Night”; “He was a star maker”; “She was a starry-eyed unknown”; “This is their story…That steps behind the ten Thousand Dazzling Lights of Broadway to reveal the loves, the heartbreaks, the dramas – that explode after the curtain comes down!”; based on the play by Zoe Akins) starring Henry Fonda, Susan Strasberg (“The kid sister from ‘Picnic’ becomes a star!”), Joan Greenwood, Herbert Marshall, Christopher Plummer (billed as “introducing Christopher Plummer”), Daniel Ocko, Pat Harrington, Frank Campanella, John Fiedler, Patricia Englund, Jack Weston, Sally Gracie, Nina Hansen, and Harold Grau