Kim Stanley received a well deserved Best Actress Oscar nomination for her performance as Myra Savage, a lonley middle-aged, highly disturbed woman, who conspires with her weak and submissive husband (Richard Attenborough) into kidnapping a little girl.

Zoe Akins’ unproduced play, Morning Glory, became the source of the film’s screen version, adapted by Howard Green and directed by Lowell Sherman.  Katharine Hepburn won her first Best Actress Oscar for her third RKO picture, as the aspiring young actress Eva Lovelace.

A major silent star, who began performing in her early teens, including some of Mack Sennett comedies, Gloria Swanson was nominated as Best Actress for the silent movie Sadie Thompson, and for her first talkie, The Trespasser.

Oscar Nominations: 6

Director: Billy Wilder

Actress: Audrey Hepburn

Screenplay: Billy Wilder, Samuel Taylor, and Ernest Lehman

Cinematography (b/w): Charles Lang, Jr.

Art Direction-Set Decoration (b/w): Hal Pereira and Walter Tyler; Sam Comer and Ray Moyer

Costume Design: Edith Head

Oscar Nominations: 1

Song: ”Did I Remember,” music by Walter Donaldson, lyrics by Harold Adamson