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| MORNING GLORY (1933) |
An RKO Radio Picture
B&W, 74 minutes
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CAST
Eva Lovelace: Katharine Hepburn
Joseph Sheridan: Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Louis Easton: Adolphe Menjou
Rita Vernon: Mary Duncan
Robert Harley Hedges: C. Aubrey Smith
Pepe Velez, the Gigolo: Don Alvarado
Will Seymour: Fred Santley
Henry Lawrence: Richard Carle
Charles Van Dusen: Tyler Brooke
Gwendolyn Hall: Geneva Mitchell
Nellie Navarre: Helen Ware
Maid: Theresa Harris
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CREDITS
Director: Lowell Sherman
Producer: Pandro S. Berman
Executive Producer: Merian C. Cooper
Scenarist: Howard J. Green
Based on the Play by: Zoë Akins
Photographer: Bert Glennon
Art Director: Van Nest Polglase
Associate Art Director: Charles Kirk
Editor: George Nicholls Jr.
Sound Recorder: Hugh McDowell
Musical Score: Max Steiner
Costumer: Walter Plunkett
Makeup Artist: Mel Burns
Assistant Director: Tommy Atkins
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SYNOPSIS
Fresh from a small town in Vermont, stagestruck Eva Lovelace finds New York City a hard, unsympathetic place to find work as an actress. She soon has an affair with Louis Easton, a theatrical manager, and then falls in love with Joseph Sheridan, a young playwright.
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CRITIQUES
"More an actress, less a 'personality,' Katharine Hepburn gives reason for rejoicing among the faithful, and cause for defection from the ranks of the skeptics, with a sure, skillful, sound performance."
- Regina Crewe, New York American, 1932
"Miss Hepburn lives the part of the stage-struck girl, consequently her characterization automatically becomes perfect - a perfect blending of art, soul and intellect."
- Hollywood Spectator, 1932
"The striking and inescapably fascinating Miss Hepburn proves pretty conclusively in her new film that her fame in the cinema is not a mere flash across the screen....It is, as I may have hinted, Miss Hepburn who makes Morning Glory something to be seen."
- Richard Watts Jr., New York Herald Tribune, 1932
"Katharine Hepburn got her first Academy Award for her performance as 'Eva Lovelace' - the name taken by a girl who comes to New York obsessively determined to become a great actress. It's a strange, ambivalent study of that lying-cheating kind of determination, taken from a play by Zoë Akins and directed by Lowell Sherman."
- Pauline Kael, The New Yorker
"Katharine Hepburn won the first of her Oscars for her performance in Lowell Sherman's 1933 film, and it is the best of her early parts. She plays the archetypal stagestruck girl, come to Broadway in search of fame and fortune, with an affecting mix of naivete and determination. Adolphe Menjou embodies the Sherman virtues of sophistication and compassion - he's a womanizing producer who knows precisely where to draw the line. Sherman died in 1935, at the peak of his creativity. Had he lived, his understanding wit would doubtless have made him a rival to Lubitsch."
- Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
"Hepburn's performance...[has] a self-mocking irony and delirious rapture that few actresses have ever attempted, much less achieved. It is as fantastically original a creation as Garbo's in Camille (1937), but, whereas Garbo strips away the conventions with a seductive humor, Hepburn explodes the conventions with a baroque hysteria. She is all brashness of youth uncorrupted by the whorishly ingratiating tricks of the grandes dames of the theater. Take me as I am, rough edges and all, she seemed to say..."
- Andrew Sarris, You Ain't Heard Nothin' Yet, 1998
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Poster
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Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Katharine Hepburn
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Adolphe Menjou, Katharine Hepburn
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Adolphe Menjou, Katharine Hepburn, Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
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Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Katharine Hepburn
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Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Katharine Hepburn
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Adolphe Menjou, Katharine Hepburn
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Lobby card
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On the set: Katharine Hepburn
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