Morning Glory (1933 film)

Morning Glory is a 1933 PreCode American drama film which tells the story of an eager wouldbe 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 Zo 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.

She later meets Joseph Sheridan Douglas Fairbanks Jr., who agrees to give her a small part in an upcoming Broadway play. As the play is about to begin, the star of the show Rita Vernon Mary Duncan, a blonde theatre star under contract with Easton, starts making demands for money in a contract she wants. When she is not obliged, 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 and she gets her big break. She quickly rehearses her lines and makes an excellent debut as a star but the road is rocky and the film ends on a far from happy note.In preproduction, the script had been tailored to fit the talents of Constance Bennett, then RKOs biggest attraction. However, when newcomer Katharine Hepburn read the script, she convinced producer Pandro S. Berman that she was born to play the part, and she was given the role over the more popular Bennett, who was thereby reassigned to Bed of Roses 1933. ........

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