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The Member of the Wedding
film by Zinnemann [1952]
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- In Fred Zinnemann: Films of the 1950s
Zinnemann followed this triumph with The Member of the Wedding (1952), an adaptation of a lauded Broadway production (by way of Carson McCullers’s coming-of-age novel of the same name). It used five members of the original cast, including Julie Harris, Ethel Waters, and Brandon deWilde.
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Harris
- In Julie Harris
…film debut in the play’s big-screen adaptation, earning an Academy Award nomination for her performance. On Broadway she received 10 Tony Award nominations for best actress and won five times—as bohemian cabaret singer Sally Bowles in I Am a Camera (1952; film 1955), as Joan of Arc in The Lark…
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Waters
- In Ethel Waters
She also starred in the movie version in 1952.
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