VividSimon Simply Perfect

Rijndri Load of rubbish!!

Kien Navarro Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

wes-connors Arriving in New York City from a small town in Vermont, ambitious and wafer-thin Katharine Hepburn (as Eva Lovelace) wants to be an actress. Her irresistible pretensions and unusual beauty catch the eye of playwright Douglas Fairbanks Jr. (as Joseph Sheridan) as Ms. Hepburn attempts to join the company of Broadway producer Adolphe Menjou (as Louis Easton). Hepburn's career staggers one step forward and two steps back, with her memorable moments highlighted by a tipsy impromptu performance of the "Romeo and Juliet" balcony scene at a snooty party... This unoriginal, but appealing story would have worked better without lurching around so often... Hepburn won her first "Academy Award" as "Best Actress" for this role; however, this "Oscar" was another in the film organization's puzzling choices. Note, the eligibility period was confused and extended, which inadvertently excluded Greta Garbo's "Queen Christina" from the running. Moreover, RKO quickly followed-up "Morning Glory" with a hit version of "Little Women". Hepburn was also perfectly mannered in her winning role, and received great support from an excellent cast. As the man attracted to Hepburn's true nature, Mr. Fairbanks is particularly good.******* Morning Glory (8/16/33) Lowell Sherman ~ Katharine Hepburn, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Adolphe Menjou, Mary Duncan

mikenelsonsolk2 i'm a big fan of classics and don't mind a movie if it's dated but this movie was just plain bad-even for it's time period. hepburn is good in almost anything but in this she's shrill and annoying. her performance a few years later in "stagedoor" (where she also plays an aspiring Broadway actress who assumes she's better than she is and somehow pulls off a star-making performance at the last moment) is such a better role. in almost ever scene where she's talking to someone she's over-acting and looking past them like she's having a delusional moment-talking to unseen and unknown person out of frame. it's hard to believe she's a good 'broadway' actress, because she's acting the same way ALL the time-even more so when she's off the stage than on. and when she gets drunk at a party and embarrasses herself she starts doing romeo & juliet and everyone gasps like it's so good and it just seems obnoxious. in short, i'd have been happier and like hepburn more if i'd never seen it. AVOID!

Seltzer I enjoyed Adolph Menjou's performance in this film, and there's quite a bit of enjoyable, witty dialogue. But I found Hepburn's performance annoying. A certain amount of the affectedness in her performance is appropriate--she's playing a girl enamored with the "idea" of being a great star. But Hepburn is so over the top. And her awful screechy voice. The "drunk" scene when she does bits of Hamlet and Romeo & Juliet and so impresses the audience -- well, she's laughable. I'm amazed that she won Best Actress for this. Amazed.As contrast to Hepburn's exaggerated performance, Fairbanks seems strangely subdued. And a subdued Fairbanks is just a fairly attractive face and not much else to him.Adolph Menjou is sexy, worldly-wise, and off-handedly kind in this film. Unlike other reviewers here on IMDb.com, I can see why Hepburn's character falls for him. I would have, too. When you're feeling vulnerable, an attractive daddy figure can sweep you off your feet.C. Aubrey Smith, as always, is charming. I also enjoy seeing his name in the credits. He did a million films, played the same role in almost all of them, and never turned in a bad performance.

adt125 A rather ordinary film made interesting by the presence and acting of Hepburn.Kate starts wonderfully in this, developing the character well and with lovely control. She moves onto a little Shakespeare Cameo that was well done if a bit of a corny device in the film. From here her earlier character seems to get abandoned and then come some mixed efforts - some good and some old fashioned over-acting that I thought was deliberate, but actually turned out to be Kater trying to act the character. Kate had some trouble staying in character for this role - but I am sure that is because of the haphazard assemblage of the film.That the character Kate created in the early scenes suddenly goes to bed with some aging guy stretches credulity and quite distasteful, especially the scene where Fairbanks realizes this has happened. The older guy was neither charismatic, handsome of trying to woo Kate - we are given no hints as to how Kate suddenly decided to give herself to him and then somehow become smitten with him. Except maybe that with some strange leap of logic with no supporting data that she had decided to sleep her way to the top.An uneven film, lots of glitches and would be of little interest except to see the evolution of Kate Hepburn's talents which definitely she showed in parts. However with Kate Hepburn as with that other great Mary Pickford, just appearing in front of the camera creates a magnetic appeal and a sense of fascination.I am not sure how Kate won an Oscar for this, she was great in parts but not so great in many other parts of the film.