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Morning Glory (1933)

Morning Glory poster
Directed by
Lowell Sherman
Genre
drama film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 14m
Rated
NR
Rating
6.2 of 10 from 56 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A young woman from a small town arrives in New York with dreams of becoming a stage actress. She works hard and faces both successes and disappointments in her rise to fame.

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What happens

Morning Glory is a 1933 American pre-Code drama film which tells the story of an excited would-be actress and her journey to stardom. As well as, her gains and losses. The picture stars Katharine Hepburn, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., and Adolphe Menjou, was adapted by Howard J. Green from a then-unproduced stage play of the same name by Zoë Akins, and was directed by Lowell Sherman. Hepburn won her first Academy Award for Best Actress. Morning Glory was remade in 1958 under the title Stage Struck. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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