Morning Glory


Cast Eva Lovelace Joseph Sheridan Louis Easton Rita Vernon Robert Harley Hedges Pepe Velez, the Gigolo Will Seymour Henry Lawrence Charles Van Dussen Gwendolyn Hall Nellie Navarra Maid Credits Director Producer Executive Producer Screenplay by Based on the play by Director of Photography Art Direction by Associate Art Director Set Decorator Film Editing by Sound Recordist Musical Score Costume Design by Makeup Artist Assistant Director	Name Katharine Hepburn Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Adolphe Menjou Mary Duncan C. Aubrey Smith Don Alvarado Fred Santley Richard Carle Tyler Brooke Deneva Mitchel Helen Ware Theresa Harris Name Lowell Sherman Pandro S. Berman Merian C. Cooper Howard J. Green Zoë Akins Bert Glennon Van Nest Polglase Charles Kirk Ray Moyer George Nicholls Jr. Hugh McDowell Max Steiner Walter Plunkett Mel Burns Tommy Atkins

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RKO Radio Pictures
74 minutes
Produced: April 21-May 12, 1933

Premiere: August 18, 1933

Synopsis

Fresh from a small town in Vermont, stage struck 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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Regina Crewe – New York American – 1932
"More an actress, less a ‘personality’, Katharine Hepburn gives reason for rejoicing among the faithful, and cause for defection from the ranks of the sceptics, with a sure, skilful, sound performance."

Hollywood Spectator – 1932
"Miss Hepburn lives the part of the stage-stuck girl, consequently her characterization automatically becomes perfect – a perfect blending of art, soul and intellect."

Richard Watts Jr. – New York Herald Tribune - 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."

Dave Kehr – Chicago Reader
"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 stage struck girl, come to Broadway in search of fame and fortune, with an affecting mix 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 with would doubtless have made him a rival to Latish."

Andrew Sarris – You Ain't Heard Nothin' Yet – 1998
"Hepburn’s performance … [has] a self-mocking irony and delirious rapture that few actresses have ever attempted, much less achieved. It is fantastically original a creation as Garbo's 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 theatre. Take me as I am, rough edges and all, she seemed to say...."

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