Hotel for Women

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.^[1][2] As work published in 1939, it will enter the American public domain in 2035 following its renewal in 1967.^[3]

Hotel for Women
Poster by Bradshaw Crandell
Directed by	Gregory Ratoff
Written by	Elsa Maxwell Kathryn Scola Darrell Ware
Produced by	Raymond Griffith Darryl F. Zanuck
Starring	Ann Sothern Linda Darnell James Ellison
Cinematography	J. Peverell Marley
Edited by	Louis R. Loeffler
Music by	David Buttolph Cyril J. Mockridge
Production company	Cosmopolitan Productions
Distributed by	20th Century-Fox
Release date	August 4, 1939 (1939-08-04)
Running time	83 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

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

• 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.