The Member of the Wedding (1952)

Directors

Fred Zinnemann

Cast

Ethel Waters, Julie Harris, Brandon De Wilde, Arthur Franz, Nancy Gates, William Hansen

The story

Feeling rejected when her older brother takes his honeymoon without inviting her, Frankie runs away from her middle-class Southern home. She endures several other adolescent traumas, such as the sudden death of her young cousin John Henry. With the help of warm-hearted housekeeper Berenice Sadie Brown, Frankie makes an awkward transition to young womanhood.

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