The Member of the Wedding

25-year-old Julie Harris convincingly recreates her Broadway role of 12-year-old tomboy Frankie Addams in the 1952 screen version of Carson McCullers' play. Feeling rejected when her older brother goes off on his honeymoon without inviting her along, Frankie runs away from her middle-class southern ...more

Fred Zinnemann's film version of Carson McCullers' classic play features a transcendent performance by Julie Harris. A fragile mood piece, McCullers' play deals with the pain and sense of abandonment experienced by an adolescent girl on the day of her brother's marriage. Embodying the awkwardness, alienation, and moodiness of adolescence, Julie Harris brings twelve-year-old Frankie painfully to life, in a film that could be thought of as a more gentle companion piece to Rebel Without a Cause ...more