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A film version of the Carson McCullers play. Frankie Addams, a very boyish articulate 12-year-old girl, is going through an unhappy stage of her life, having been spurned by the neighborhood girls. She spends most of her time in the kitchen talking to her black maid, Bernice, and the younger next door boy, John Henry. Her brother Jarvis is about to marry Janice, and Frankie imagines that she will leave town with them. However she eventually begins to grow up into a young woman. Written by
Will Gilbert
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She became a woman in the middle of a kiss!
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TV-G
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The original Broadway production of "The Member of the Wedding," by
Carson McCullers opened on January 5, 1950 at the Empire Theater (New York) and ran for 501 performances.
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Quotes
Frances 'Frankie' Addams:
We'll just walk up to people and know them right away. We'll be walking down a dark road, and see a lighted house and knock on the door, and strangers will rush to meet us and say, "Come in! Come in!" We'll know decorated aviators and New York people and movie stars. And we'll have thousands and thousands of friends. We'll belong to so many clubs that we can't even keep track of them all. We'll be members of the WHOLE WORLD!
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Connections
Version of
The Member of the Wedding (1997)
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Soundtracks
"His Eye Is on the Sparrow"
Written by
Charles H. Gabriel and
Civilla Martin
Performed by
Ethel Waters with
Brandon De Wilde &
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I cannot believe how good this film is
You will not see Ethel Waters nor Julie harris better recorded on film. Every moment is pure ecstacy.
A good reason to live
If they did not make films like this I would commit suicide
Ethel Waters sang Stormy Weather but her acting is even better
If you are a guy it is not so easy to watch a girl film like this, julie harris is a tomboy and Waters is a wise black mammy, and it is not very contemporory.
Nobody could do a film like this today