Stage Mother is a 1933 American pre-Code drama film directed by Charles Brabin and starring Alice Brady and Maureen O'Sullivan.

Four years after her vaudevillian husband's death, Kitty Lorraine, a frustrated former performer, marries comic Ralph Martin and returns to the stage, leaving behind her four-year-old daughter Shirley with her former in-laws.

[1] Stage Mother was based on the novel of the same name by Bradford Ropes, whose earlier book 42nd Street had been adapted into the successful 1933 film.

[3] Mordaunt Hall for The New York Times finds many of the film's scenarios "utterly implausible" but praises Brady for making them somewhat believable.

He credits Brady's acting and Brabin's direction with making Stage Mother "infinitely more acceptable than most others of its type".