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Joy in the Morning movie storyline. In 1927, young second generation Irish-American couple Carl Brown and Annie McGairy decide to get married despite things working against them. Those issues are many. Annie comes from a poor, uneducated and broken family, where her stepfather abuses her and is jealous of Carl, which in turn makes her mother throw her out.
That abuse coupled with her otherwise sexual inexperience taints the way she views human interaction. His parents, who come from a working class background themselves, wanted Carl to marry into a respectable family. Because of Carl’s promising future, they view Annie purely as a gold digger. Neither Carl or Annie have any money since Carl spends whatever he has on his law schooling, which still is paid for primarily by his parents and school loans.
That schooling, and the job he gets as college grounds caretaker which comes with a small cottage for them to live in on campus, preoccupies his time. As their marriage progresses, there are further pressures. She becomes jealous of his past relationship with a co-ed, and with his college life in general which is foreign to her.
Her association and friendship with Anthony Byrd, a homosexual florist, and with Bev Karter, a single mother who is in an extramarital relationship with Stan Pulaski, an older, married and generous man, fuels gossip which negatively affects Carl’s view of her on-campus life. The one bright spot seems to be Annie unofficially and clandestinely auditing an English class, which feeds her thirst for knowledge. The question becomes if their marriage can withstand these and other pressures that come with marriage.
Joy in the Morning is a 1965 American romance film starring Richard Chamberlain and Yvette Mimieux and directed by Alex Segal. Adapted from the 1963 novel of the same name by Betty Smith, the film tells the story of a young newlywed couple, Carl and Annie Brown, who marry against their parents’ wishes while Carl is still in law school and struggle to maintain their relationship.
Joy in the Morning (1965)
Directed by: Alex Segal
Starring: Richard Chamberlain, Yvette Mimieux, Arthur Kennedy, Oscar Homolka, Joan Tetzel, Virginia Gregg, Ellen Atterbury, Chris Noel, Ira Barmak, Donald Davis, Sidney Blackmer
Screenplay by: Sally Benson, Alfred Hayes, Norman Lessing
Cinematography by: Ellsworth Fredericks
Film Editing by: Thomas J. McCarthy
Costume Design by: Donfeld
Set Decoration by: Henry Grace, George R. Nelson
Art Direction by: Carl Anderson, George W. Davis
Music by: Sammy Fain and Paul Francis Webster, Bernard Herrmann
MPAA Rating: None.
Distributed by: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release Date: May 7, 1965
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