Stage Struck (1958 film)

Stage Struck is a 1958 American drama film directed by Sidney Lumet, and stars Henry Fonda, Susan Strasberg and Christopher Plummer. The screenplay, by Augustus and Ruth Goetz, is based on the stage play Morning Glory by Zo Akins, which also served as the basis for the 1933 film Morning Glory. starring Katharine Hepburn, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. and Adolphe Menjou in the corresponding roles. Stage Struck marked Canadian actor Christopher Plummers feature film debut.

In his review in the New York Times, A.H. Weiler opined, the moviemakers . . . obviously are devoted people, whose emotions, unfortunately, rarely move a viewer . . . The fact is that the bare bones of the plot . . . do not constitute a great revelation in a sophisticated age . . . Susan Strasberg . . . is competent as the determined Eva Lovelace. She is petite and fragile and sometimes expressive but strangely pallid in a role that would seem to call for fire, not mere smoldering . . . Christopher Plummer . . . is restrained but effective. Joan Greenwood . . . is explosively emotional . . . and Herbert Marshall does well . . . It makes a nice show even if it is not stirring.

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