Morning Glory - Katharine Hepburn
The movie poster for Morning Glory is amazing. This is an incredible poster. The role that Katharine Hepburn plays must be an incredible one. The art on this is so noir, the colors, so brash, so brazen, so bright - so, American.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0024353/?ref_=ttls_li_tt
https://www.scripts.com/script-pdf/14063
It's an interesting script. I'm still looking through it. Okay, let's do the chop-chop treatment, given that I am still reading it and my time is up. The young, dear, sweet Eva Lovelace travels into indecent society in New York, in order to keep up appearances and support her family.
Wikipedia article about Morning Glory
It's Monday, today's treatment is a new, updated version of Morning Glory.
Ada Lovelace or Eva Lovelace or Madame L'amour and her best friend of the moment, Gwen Hall, have travelled to New York from Connecticut via Westchester County to visit RHH, a distant relative, who has connections in the business.
They've been on tour with the New York Renaissance Festivals, they've destroyed careers of opera singers, Shakespearean actors, and now, they are in trouble with the biggest movie production company in the world, based in China.
Their family has no choice, other than to farm them out to Hollywood. So, there she is - Ada Love. She is young, naive, more innocent than she thinks she is - a newly minted actress of the Great Depression era, still building a name for herself.
Characters
Ada Lovelace also known as Eva Lovelace, Eva Love, Ada Love
Joseph Sheridan
Louis Easton
Robert Harley
Rita Vernon
Pepi Velez
Will Seymour
Henry Lawrence
Charley Van
Nellie Navarre
Gwendolyn Hall
Roberts (Robert Adair)\
Head Usher (Ralph Bard)
Morning Glory
Act One
Eva Lovelace has a hole in the roof of her family home. The smoke is rising out of the roof. The men are dancing with Eva Lovelace and her friends. Then, the alcohol runs out and there is no more juice or pep to the party. Everyone goes home. Eva Lovelace is left alone, all by herself. She is crying, the rain starts, it is pouring, she gets wet. She gets very wet, and her clingy dress becomes translucent - very sexy. She hikes up her skirt and wipes off her face. Her white dress gets covered with lipstick. She changes into a pale blue dress. The sun rises, and she searches for an envelope - there is one dollar in it. The milkman delivers milk. She gives him her last five dollar bill. He is going to Manhattan. She gets in the milk delivery vehicle, and off they go. She brings along a small collection of handmade spring hats.
Things go well for her at The Cloisters, where she finds work helping to expand the Metropolitan Museum, from someone who purchases her entire collection of hats for ten dollars. She learns at the end of the day that her work is volunteer work. She has no place to stay other than The Cloisters, in a small confession booth. Still, inside the somewhat dusty building, there is life, as well as a phone book full of phone numbers. A few workers leave her tips for small tasks that she is doing, as well as a change purse full of nickels. By the end of the week, she is ready to go home, no worries, someone is driving back to Old Saybrook on Sunday afternoon. She is gifted with an armload of fabric and told to return "next month". The ride back to coastal Connecticut is a sad one, with Mr. and Mrs. Jones doing most of the talking. Not entirely trusting Mr. and Mrs. Jones, she requests to be left off outside of the tailor shop, where her friend, Gwen Hall is working as a bookkeeper and production assistant late on Sunday evening. She is immediately let in, and does a sleepover of sorts until the wee hours of the morning, when, she realizes that she must wake up and get back to her family house. The two made a few fine dresses, and finished off a few simple shell forms as well. Eva works drearily well into the night while her friend is sleeping.
Eva takes the large roll of tarpulin material, and walks back to her home in her simple white ballet flats, which are ruined by the time she gets back to her house. The tarp goes on the roof, and patches it up, while she is sleeping, by the almost invisible person, who is not actually in the movie itself.
Gwen arrives at the house, in the afternoon. She has fifty dollars, all in ten dollar bills to give her friend, Eva. At last, the bills will be paid. Gwen drives Eva back to town to pay the water bill, the electric bill, and the phone bill - all of which were "a bit overdue". Despite the fact that there is money left over, the two just purchase a small bottle of wine, and have a simple dinner of wine, bread, cheese and water in the local park. A local hobo gets the last of the bottle of wine and the leftover food.
The two go back to the shop, and get right back to work sewing. There is no time for chat. There is only work to do, and lots of it.
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