History Film / LadiesOfTheChorus

* StageMom: Mae, to Peggy. Unlike most examples, she kept working in the show business, she voluntarily kept her career low to prop that of her daughter up, and she doesn't appear to have been abusive (she's not too {{overprotective|Dad}} either).

* PlayingGertrude: Adele Jergens was eight years and a half older than Marilyn Monroe and played the mother of Marilyn's character. They look more like sisters than a mother and her daughter (Jergens was 31 and Marilyn was 22 at the time).

This was Marilyn Monroe's first starring role. When her popularity surged in TheFifties, the film was reedited down to one hour to prop her up and re-released, something that was also done with [[BillingDisplacement new posters for said re-release and the credits themselves]] (she got top billing while Adele Jergens was the main star originally).

* [[DatingWhatDaddyHates Dating What Mommy Hates]]: Subverted. Randy does know his mother is an OpenMindedParent and that she will accept Peggy, but for some reason he decides not to tell her that she's a chorus girl, which causes some drama.

This was Marilyn Monroe's first starring role. When her popularity surged in TheFifties, the film was reedited down to one hour to prop her up and re-released, something that was also done with [[WolverinePublicity new posters for said re-release and the credits themselves]] (she got top billing while Adele Jergens was the main star originally).

* ReCut: When the film was first released in 1948, it was close to one hour and a half long. It was then cut down to one hour flat in order to [[WolverinePublicity give more importance to Marilyn Monroe's character]] (or at least more than she already had) when she started getting popular in the early [[TheFifties 50s]]. As a result, the character arc of Mae (Adele Jergens) got considerably reduced, which is why her romance with Billy Mackay (Eddie Garr) feels rushed.

* CoolOldLady: Randy Carroll's mother Adele. She's an OpenMindedParent who has no issue with her son marrying Peggy, and even performs a song for the two soon-to-be-wed couples at the end (and said song is about how being a SerialSpouse is no big deal).

* [[DatingWhatDaddyHates Dating What Mommy Hates]]: Subverted. Randy does know his mother is an OpenMindedParent and that she will accept Peggy, but for some reason he decides not to tell her that she's a chorus girl.

* [[DatingWhatDaddyHates Dating What Mommy Hates]]: Subverted. Randy does know his mother is an OpenMindedParent and will accept Peggy, but for some reason he decides not to tell her that she's a chorus girl.

''Ladies of the Chorus'' is a 1948 American RomanticComedy / musical film directed by Phil Karlson and starring Adele Jergens, Creator/MarilynMonroe, Rand Brooks and Nana Bryant.

* StageMom: Mae, to Peggy. Unlike most examples, she kept working in the show business, she voluntarily kept her career low to prop that of her daughter up, and she doesn't appear to have been abusive.

This was Marilyn Monroe's first starring role. When her popularity surged in TheFifties, the film was reedited down to one hour to prop her up and re-released, something that was also done with [[[[WolverinePublicity new posters for said re-release and the credits themselves]] (she got top billing while Adele Jergens was the main star originally).

* HappyEnding: The two couples of Randy and Peggy and Mae and Billy are about to get married with the blessing of Adele.

This was Marilyn Monroe's first starring role. When her popularity surged in TheFifties, the film was reedited down to one hour to prop her up and re-released, something that was also done with new posters for said re-release and the credits themselves (she got top billing while Adele Jergens was the main star originally).

This was Marilyn Monroe's first starring role. When her popularity surged in TheFifties, the film was reedited down to one hour to prop her up and re-released, something that was also done with new posters for said re-release.

* TheChanteuse: Because Mae arrange for Peggy to perform the "Anyone Can See I Love You" number, everyone sees how good Peggy is at it and she quickly becomes the chorus' leading singer.

Peggy Martin (Monroe) and her mother Mae (Jergens) both work as {{burlesque}} chorus girls. After star Bubbles [=LaRue=] quits, the stage manager Joe asks Mae to replace her, but Mae secretly arranges for Peggy to do the number instead, and her performance is so good that she is given the starring spot. One evening, Randy Carroll (Brooks), a member of a wealthy society family in Cleveland, Ohio, is brought to a performance of Peggy by his friends, and he becomes completely enamored of Peggy. Learning that Peggy generally does not go on dates because her mother disapproves, Randy adopts a subtle strategy.

* StageMom: Mae, to Peggy. Unlike most examples, she voluntarily kept her career low to prop that of her daughter up, and she doesn't appear to have been abusive.

This was Marilyn Monroe's first starring role. When her popularity surged in TheFifities, the film was reedited down to one hour to prop her up and re-released, something that was also done with new posters for said re-release.

This was Marilyn Monroe's first starring role. When her popularity surged in TheFifites, the film was reedited down to one hour to prop her up and re-released, something that was also done with new posters for said re-release.