Morning Glory Overview:

Morning Glory (1933) was a Drama - Romance Film directed by Lowell Sherman and produced by Pandro S. Berman and Merian C. Cooper.

Academy Awards 1932/33 --- Ceremony Number 6 (source: AMPAS)

AwardRecipientResult
Best ActressKatharine HepburnWon
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DOUBLE BILL #9: Morning Glory (1933) and Stage Door (1937)

By Carol Martinheira on Dec 10, 2017 From The Old Hollywood Garden

DOUBLE BILL #9: Morning Glory (1933) and Stage Door (1937) On December 10, 2017December 10, 2017 By CarolIn Uncategorized Ah, the theater. That wonderful thing out there, drenched in magic and lights, that only a handful of people will break into and conquer. It?s an e... Read full article


Katharine Hepburn Faces Fear and Fame in MORNING GLORY (1933) Recently updated !

By Margaret Perry on Apr 29, 2015 From Margaret Perry

?Youth has its hour of glory, but too often it is only a morning glory, the flower that fades before the sun if very high.? (from MORNING GLORY?(1933)) ?No other star has emerged with greater rapidity or with more ecstatic acclaim. No other star, either, has become so unpopular so quickly for so lon... Read full article


Morning Glory (1933) (2)

By Wade Sheeler on Mar 3, 2014 From Pretty Clever Films

Katherine Hepburn?s star was rising when she ?agreed? to be in her third film, following head turning freshman and sophomore performances in 1932?s A Bill of Divorcement and 1933?s Christopher Strong. Her agent-lover Leland Hayward was able to finagle a heretofore unheard of deal with RKO Pictures, ... Read full article


Morning Glory (1933) (1)

on Aug 26, 2013 From Journeys in Classic Film

I picked the wrong Katharine Hepburn movie for her day.? Sorry, but I found Morning Glory to be a lesson in tedium swathed in furs and jewels.? The backstage drama has been examined in countless films (I spent an entire week covering Busby Berkeley‘s far superior examples in the genre), and Mo... Read full article


"Morning Glory," or All About Eva

By David on Apr 24, 2013 From The Man on the Flying Trapeze

Katharine Hepburn won a Best Actress Oscar for the 1933 film "Morning Glory," but you could be forgiven for asking if the film hurt her career as much as it helped it. As Eva Lovelace, who's come from small-town Vermont to New York City to be a capital-A actress ("I'll never, under any circumstance... Read full article


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Quotes from

Robert Harley Hedges: Youth has its hour of glory... but too often it's only a morning glory, the flower that fades before the sun is very high.


Rita Vernon: You know, the only way to live through a party like this is to get good and tight.


Charlie Van Duesen: You're the best young actress in America.
Rita Vernon: I know that.


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Katharine Hepburn is the only movie star to win four Academy Awards (2009) for her leading roles in Morning Glory, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, The Lion in Winter, and On Golden Pond.
Filmed in 17 days.
"The Screen Guild Theater" broadcast a 30 minute radio adaptation of the movie on March 24, 1940 with Adolphe Menjou reprising his film role.
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