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Morning Glory is a american film of genre Drama directed by Lowell Sherman released in USA on 18 august 1933 with Katharine Hepburn
Morning Glory (1933)
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Add to a movie listMorning Glory is a 1933 Pre-Code American drama film which tells the story of an eager would-be actress and her journey to stardom, and what she loses as a result. The picture stars Katharine Hepburn, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., and Adolphe Menjou, was adapted by Howard J. Green from a then not yet stage produced play with the same name by Zoë Akins, and was directed by Lowell Sherman. Hepburn won her first Academy Award for Best Actress for this movie. Morning Glory was remade in 1958 under the title Stage Struck.
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Eva Lovelace (Katharine Hepburn) is a performer from a small town who has hoped since childhood to make it big on 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, one other actress auditioning makes the cut as she is under contract with the company, but in fact the boss would love to get rid of this pest of a woman. A theatre coach (C Aubrey Smith), whom she meets while waiting to talk to Louis Easton (Adolphe Menjou), agrees to give her acting lessons.Actors
Katharine Hepburn
(Eva Lovelace)
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
(Joseph Sheridan)
Adolphe Menjou
(Louis Easton)
Mary Duncan
(Rita Vernon)
C. Aubrey Smith
(Bob Hedges)
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