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Morning Glory is a 1933 American Pre-Code drama film which tells the story of an eager would-be actress and her journey to stardom, and her gains and losses. The picture stars Katharine Hepburn, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., and Adolphe Menjou, was adapted by Howard J. Green from a then-unproduced stage play of the same name [2] by Zoë Akins, and was ...
- $239,000
- Pandro S. Berman
Morning Glory: Directed by Lowell Sherman. With Katharine Hepburn, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Adolphe Menjou, Mary Duncan. When a naively innocent, aspiring actress arrives on the Broadway scene, she is taken under the wing of several theater veterans who mentor her to ultimate success.
- (3.3K)
- Lowell Sherman
- Passed
Hepburn's confident patrician manner and upper-class accent were well-suited to those characters, but it was the role of aspiring actress Eva Lovelace in her third film, Morning Glory (1933), that was most like the young Hepburn of that era. Her performance won Hepburn her first of four Academy Awards as Best Actress.
stagestruck, young, inexperienced and yearning Eva met with handsome, slimy, opportunistic, middle-aged, philandering Broadway theatre owner-manager Lewis Easton (Adolphe Menjou), to unabashedly promote herself, to show him a remarkable letter from George Bernard Shaw, and to describe her ambitious dreams of becoming a Broadway theatrical star: ("I was in a lot of plays at the Franklin Theatre ...
Morning Glory is stagey, silly, corny, and melodramatic, but it does have Katharine Hepburn in her third film and winning the first of her four Oscars. As a naïve young woman who comes to Broadway knowing she is a great actress, Hepburn has an irresistible vitality which overcomes the often ludicrous material.
- (1.9K)
- RKO Radio Pictures
- Lowell Sherman
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Morning Glory (1933) is the cliched story of a naive and pretentious aspiring actress, with a very literate script, rich dialogue, and superb acting. It starred Katharine Hepburn in only her third film. This RKO showbiz-related romantic drama, directed by Lowell Sherman and adapted from a stage play by Zoe Akins, was notable since it helped to ...
Summaries. When a naively innocent, aspiring actress arrives on the Broadway scene, she is taken under the wing of several theater veterans who mentor her to ultimate success. Ada Love, who has renamed herself Eva Lovelace, is a would-be actress trying to crash the New York stage. A wildly optimistic chatterbox full of theatrical mannerisms ...
