The Member of the Wedding

US (1952): Drama

Julie Harris gives a tour-de-force performance in this film version of the Carson McCullers play. Frankie Addams, a very boyish articulate 12-year-old girl (played by a 27-year-old Harris), 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 (Ethel Waters), and the younger next door boy, John Henry (Brandon De Wilde). Her brother Jarvis (Arthur Franz) is about to marry Janice (Nancy Gates), and Frankie imagines that she will leave town with them. However, she eventually begins to grow up into a young woman. Director Fred Zinnemann once said in an interview that it was his personal favorite of all the films he'd made. (Stanley Kramer/Columbia) (IMDb)

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