Stage Fright
“Love held its breath as sudden terror held the stage!”
A struggling actress tries to help a friend prove his innocence when he's accused of murdering the husband of a high-society entertainer.
Genres
Thriller
Studio
Warner Bros. Pictures
Language
en
Status
Released
How Stage Fright performed
Budget
$1.4M
Worldwide Gross
$1.9M
Gross Profit
$450,000
Return
1.3× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$303K
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~42/58, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (38% of the domestic run, typical for Thriller) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
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Cast
Eve Gill
Jane Wyman
Eve Gill
Charlotte Inwood
Marlene Dietrich
Charlotte Inwood
Det. Insp. Wilfried 'Ordinary' Smith
Michael Wilding
Det. Insp. Wilfried 'Ordinary' Smith
Jonathan Cooper
Richard Todd
Jonathan Cooper
Commodore Gill
Alastair Sim
Commodore Gill
Mrs. Gill
Sybil Thorndike
Mrs. Gill
Nellie Goode
Kay Walsh
Nellie Goode
Mr. Fortesque
Miles Malleson
Mr. Fortesque
Freddie Williams
Hector MacGregor
Freddie Williams
'Lovely Ducks'
Joyce Grenfell
'Lovely Ducks'
Inspector Byard
André Morell
Inspector Byard
Chubby Bannister
Patricia Hitchcock
Chubby Bannister
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