Popular Culture
- The hugely successful and popular musical Gypsy is the story of Rose, a domineering stage mother of her children, June and Louise who go on to become June Havoc and Gypsy Rose Lee respectively.
- Stage Mother is the name of a 1933 film.
- Bellissima by Luchino Visconti is about a stage mother in Cinecittà , Rome, starred by Anna Magnani
- An episode of the television show Kate & Allie was titled "Stage Mother". In the episode, Allie is overly enthusiastic about Jennie getting a job to sing on cable television.
- Bakekang, a Filipino TV series, which stars Sunshine Dizon is a story of an ugly woman who begets a very beautiful girl from a foreigner. A movie fan as she is, she compels her daughter, named Krystal, to join show business. Her daughter becomes a big star and Bakekang, a stage mother.
- Little Britain has a duo called Sandra and Ralph Patterson. Sandra is very desperate for her son, Ralph to get a part in acting. Whenever he fails, she treats him very badly and even beats him.
- The fourth episode of the third series of BBC comedy The League of Gentlemen features a stage mother named Nancy Glass who forces her daughter to perform at the Little Miss Elegance Pageant.
- Patsy Ramsey, mother of slain child beauty queen, JonBenet Ramsey.
- Abraham Quintanilla Jr. of the slain Tejano queen Selena Quintanilla Perez. He is a stage father in this case in which he discovered Selena's gift of singing and rounded her and her siblings up as a band (Selena Y Los Dinos), named for his band in his younger days.
- Watchmen features Silk Spectre, a superhero who acts as a stage mother for her daughter, forcing her to become the modern incarnation of Silk Spectre against her will.
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