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Morning Glory (1933
1933 in film

Events*British Film Institute founded.*March 2 - King Kong premieres in New York City.* June 6 - The first drive-in theater opens, in Camden, New Jersey....
) is a pre-Code
Pre-Code

Pre-Code films were created before the United States Motion Picture Production Code of 1930 or Hays Code - censorship guidelines - took effect on 1 July 1934 in the United States of America....
 American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 drama film
Drama film

A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth characterization of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, crime and corruption put the characters in conflict with themselves, others, society and even natural phenome...
 which tells the story of an eager but unstable would-be actress whose good looks draw more attention than her acting. It stars Katharine Hepburn
Katharine Hepburn

Katharine Houghton Hepburn was an United States actress of film, television and stage.Acclaimed throughout her 73-year career, Hepburn holds the record for the most Academy Award for Best Actress Academy Awards wins with four, from 12 nominations....
, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., and Adolphe Menjou
Adolphe Menjou

Adolphe Jean Menjou was an United States actor. His career spanned both silent films and talkies acting in such important films as The Sheik , A Woman of Paris, Morocco , and A Star Is Born ....
. The movie was adapted by Howard J. Green from the play by Zoe Akins
Zoe Akins

Zo? Akins American playwright, poet, and author....
. It was directed by Lowell Sherman
Lowell Sherman

Lowell Sherman was an American actor and Film director.Lowell started out as an actor, usually playing playboys and villains and went on to becoming a director....
. Katharine Hepburn won her first Academy Award for Best Actress
Academy Award for Best Actress

Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....
 for this movie. Morning Glory was remade as Stage Struck
Stage Struck (film)

Stage Struck is a 1958 United States drama film directed by Sidney Lumet. The screenplay by Augustus and Ruth Goetz is based on a play by Zoe Akins, which served as the basis for the 1933 film Morning Glory starring Katharine Hepburn....
 in 1958.

Lovelace (Hepburn) is a small town theater performer who hopes to make it big in Broadway.






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Morning Glory (1933
1933 in film

Events*British Film Institute founded.*March 2 - King Kong premieres in New York City.* June 6 - The first drive-in theater opens, in Camden, New Jersey....
) is a pre-Code
Pre-Code

Pre-Code films were created before the United States Motion Picture Production Code of 1930 or Hays Code - censorship guidelines - took effect on 1 July 1934 in the United States of America....
 American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 drama film
Drama film

A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth characterization of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, crime and corruption put the characters in conflict with themselves, others, society and even natural phenome...
 which tells the story of an eager but unstable would-be actress whose good looks draw more attention than her acting. It stars Katharine Hepburn
Katharine Hepburn

Katharine Houghton Hepburn was an United States actress of film, television and stage.Acclaimed throughout her 73-year career, Hepburn holds the record for the most Academy Award for Best Actress Academy Awards wins with four, from 12 nominations....
, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., and Adolphe Menjou
Adolphe Menjou

Adolphe Jean Menjou was an United States actor. His career spanned both silent films and talkies acting in such important films as The Sheik , A Woman of Paris, Morocco , and A Star Is Born ....
. The movie was adapted by Howard J. Green from the play by Zoe Akins
Zoe Akins

Zo? Akins American playwright, poet, and author....
. It was directed by Lowell Sherman
Lowell Sherman

Lowell Sherman was an American actor and Film director.Lowell started out as an actor, usually playing playboys and villains and went on to becoming a director....
. Katharine Hepburn won her first Academy Award for Best Actress
Academy Award for Best Actress

Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....
 for this movie. Morning Glory was remade as Stage Struck
Stage Struck (film)

Stage Struck is a 1958 United States drama film directed by Sidney Lumet. The screenplay by Augustus and Ruth Goetz is based on a play by Zoe Akins, which served as the basis for the 1933 film Morning Glory starring Katharine Hepburn....
 in 1958.

Plot

Eva Lovelace (Hepburn) is a small town theater performer who hopes to make it big in Broadway. She goes to auditions and tries to get a role in an upcoming play that would help her make it to the big time. While there, several other actresses auditioning make the cut and they cast them and not her since they have a lot more experience on stage than her. A theater coach (Menjou), whom she meets while auditions agrees to give her acting and theater coach lessons.

She later meets Joseph Sheridan (Fairbanks), who later agrees to give her a small part in their upcoming broadway play. Later in the film, just as the play is about to begin, the star of the show Rita Vernon (Mary Duncan
Mary Duncan

Mary Duncan was an American actor....
), a blond theater star, starts making demands for certain amounts of money in a contract she wants and when they can't meet her demands for a contract and more money, she storms off the set and the show is without a star. The production crew frantically tries to find a replacement. As a last resort, they choose Eva Lovelace to play the star of the show, she gets her big break. She quickly rehearses her lines and makes an excellent debut as a star.

Cast

  • Katharine Hepburn ... Eva Lovelace
  • Douglas Fairbanks Jr. ... Joseph Sheridan
  • Adolphe Menjou ... Louis (Lewis) Easton


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