Very Cool!!!

The greatest movie ever!

not as good as all the hype

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.

. . . Melancholia Rump. Her pivotal scene occurs in the second half of MORNING GLORY, when Uncredited film extra Marion Mitchell Morrison plays an anonymous drunken New York City businessman (think 1989 Doonesbury Comic Strip target Donald J. Rump) who shares a tender moment with lingerie model "Eva Lovelace" (Hepburn, as Linda's aunt and mentor) by grabbing her female crevice during a "business luncheon floor show," which bears an extremely eerie resemblance to how Real Life Rump met his illegal immigrant allegedly soft-porn starlet third bride, Melancholia. As Ms. Lovelace plagiarizes Shakespeare's First Lady Juliet at a booze party, clairvoyant viewers are further reminded of Melancholia's "Coming Out" spectacle last summer in Cleveland (which families hope was more of a PG-13 type show than "Last summer at Band Camp," though with Rump you never know for sure). All Pussywillow references aside, Adolph Menjou feels no more guilt about deflowering a MORNING GLORY than a billionaire of our Present Last Days of America would have about grabbing YOUR coed girlfriend, daughter, niece, or granddaughter by her ACCESS H0LLYWOOD lips. I would not be surprised if Meryl Streep votes for Melancholia in next year's Gelded Statuette Oscar Derby.

O.K. This is it. The.Worst.Old."Classic".Black.And.White.Movie.I.Have.Ever.Seen.Film adaptation of a stage play about young,naive actress coming to New York searching for a big break, with pockets full of dreams and hopes about becoming theater legend like her idols. Along the way, she is pitied, abused and laughed at, than suddenly gets a last-minute- chance and turns out to be new discovery. At the end she realizes that success means personal sacrifice and accepts it for the sake of her art.At the paper,it sounds fairly harmless arty warning against sharks in show business, but in reality this must be the worst over acting I have ever seen in my entire life. Usually I love old black & white movies and have no problem if they are a bit dated, but this was laughable, annoying and simply bad. Don't know should we blame the script, director or Katherine Hepburn - we see her first waiting with other hopefuls in front of producer's office, talking and introducing herself to strangers (so far so good,she is obviously not sophisticated and very naive) but during the next five minutes we realize something is wrong with this girl, she talks to much, she is too eager, in fact she never listens anyone and talks constantly about herself without pausing for a breath. Again, maybe this were director's instructions - Hepburn is so annoying that today we would classify her as deluded,deranged and definitely off- balance. All trough the movie her character talks,talks,talks and than talks some more, gestures like she is on a stage, lives on another planet from other people around her and in a final scene when she yells "I'm ready!" it sounds so overbearing that she might as well be ready for a hospitalization. Now, this is all very confusing - I have seen lots of old classics from 1920s,1930s and 1940s and from what I have seen, these old movies reflect atmosphere and public morals of the times,however this is simply bad case of overacting. All the other characters, including obvious comical cameos, have certain human, normal touch to them but Hepburn is simply mad. I mean, I would press "help" button under my table and call for the ambulance to sedate her and get her away. That Hepburn actually won "Oscar" for this movie is absolutely mystifying - just look at the acting of Mary Astor,Joan Crawford, Jean Harlow not to mention Bette Davis,Garbo or any other actress of the 1930s and underneath obvious Hollywood cellophane we can see natural acting or at least attempts to appear human. This was so bad that it spoiled my enjoyment of Hepburn and keep me wonder about point of Academy Award at all.

Morning Glory (1933) starring Katherine Hepburn, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Adolph Menjou, and C. Aubrey Smith is a wonderful movie starring the incredible (4 Best Actress Academy Awards) Katherine Hepburn giving a "star" performance in a "star vehicle" show aimed at dazzling audiences with wonderful acting exhibitions, and succeeding completely.It is a stage play presented unpretentiously in movie form. Seeing Mornging Glory (1933) starring Katherine Hepburn is like going to a stage show, a dramatic Broadway stage show of quality part of the great tradition of Broadway (NYC USA) stage show performances given in huge numbers during the 1920's and early 1930's, during the historic period in USA cultural history when stage plays were the most important and honored form of performing, story telling art, and movies were not yet at all considered a serious art form, but rather were (justifiably) ranked with and compared to circuses and amusement parks (the owner of Loew's Inc., also owner of MGM movie studio during the 1930's and Louie B. Mayer's boss was Nicholas Schenck, who also owned New Jersey amusement parks, his work before he entered the movie business).Morning Glory (1933) starring Katherine Hepburn depends completely on actor performances, and the movie is essentially an exposition of wonderful (incredibly skilled) actor work with only simple movie settings, and no cinema camera, editing, music, special effects, or director "auteur" tricks or emphases.It's a movie carried completely by the actors in the show, and one can see good actor work clearly and for long, sustained periods in this movie in a way almost never seen in other movies.See Morning Glory (1933) starring Katherine Hepburn to see fine, skillful, talented, inspired, disciplined acting at it's best, presented during a cultural period in USA history when such acting was honored and emphasized, and when the subjects and depictions presented by good actors were intelligent, worthy, and culturally impressive and honorable.It's a breathtaking movie made during the early days of movie talkies, and before the oppressive Hays/ Breen "Hollywood Self-Imposed Censorship" Office imposed it's infamous code on cinematic art in 1934.The sound is not always good (mikes were placed back then in flower arrangements and actors sometimes failed to "talk into the flowers" with the result that voices could not be heard clearly), and the only flashy visual parts of the movie are montages showing the Times Square lights and panorama of 1933, and hands clapping superimposed over depictions of actors on stage and audiences reacting to stage performances, and of course the elegant white tie and tails and gowns for the ladies dress part of parties and backstage scenes in the movie.The big thing about Morning Glory (1933) starring Katherine Hepburn is actor performances of astounding quality...the fact that this movie gave great actors a chance to work out and show the audience their stuff.George Lucas and his "Industrial Light And Magic" movie special effects factory were not needed to make Morning Glory (1933) starring Ktherine Hepburn a success and an honored movie....one which should be honored for more than Katherine Hepburn's justifiably praised and awarded leading lady actor performance.--------- Written by Tex Allen, SAG Actor. Visit WWW.IMDb.Com and choose "Tex Allen" "resume" for contact information, movie credits, and biographical information about Tex Allen. He has reviewed more than 42 movies posted on WWW.IMDb.Com (the world's largest movie information database, owned by Amazon.Com) as of January 2011. These include: 1. Alfie (1966) 29 July 2009 2. Alien (1979) 24 July 2009 3. All the Loving Couples (1969) 17 January 2011 4. All the President's Men (1976) 16 November 2010 5. American Graffiti (1973) 22 November 2010 6. Animal House (1978) 16 August 2009 7. Bullitt (1968) 23 July 2009 8. Captain Kidd (1945) 28 July 2009 9. Child Bride (1938) 24 September 2009 10. Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) 22 September 2010 11. Destination Moon (1950) 17 January 2011 12. Detour (1945) 19 November 2010 13. Die Hard 2 (1990) 23 December 2010 14. The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl (1993) 19 November 2010 15. Jack and the Beanstalk (1952) 26 July 2009 16. King Solomon's Mines (1950) 1 December 2010 17. Knute Rockne All American (1940) 2 November 2010 18. Claire's Knee (1970) 15 August 2009 19. Melody Ranch (1940) 10 November 2010 20. Morning Glory (1933) 19 November 2010 21. Mush and Milk (1933) 17 January 2011 22. New Moon (1940) 3 November 2010 23. Pinocchio (1940) 6 November 2010 24. R2PC: Road to Park City (2000) 19 November 2010 25. Salt (2010) 24 August 2010 26. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960) 21 January 2011 27. Sunset Blvd. (1950) 1 December 2010 28. The Forgotten Village (1941) 21 January 2011 29. The Great Dictator (1940) 1 November 2010 30. The King's Speech (2010) 19 January 2011 31. The Last Emperor (1987) 20 January 2011 32. The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962) 9 January 2011 33. The Man in the White Suit (1951) 5 August 2009 Written by Tex Allen, SAG-AFTRA movie actor. Visit WWW.IMDb.Me/TexAllen for more information about Tex Allen. 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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.