Starring:

Richard Chamberlain as Carl Brown
Yvette Mimieux as Annie McGairy

Co-starring:
Arthur Kennedy as  Patrick Brown
Oskar Homolka as  Stan Pulaski
Donald Davis as  Anthony Byrd
Joan Tetzel as  Beverly Karter
Sidney Blackmer as  Dean James Darwent
Virginia Gregg as  Mrs. Lorgan
Chris Noel as  Mary Ellen Kincaid
Barlett Robinson as  Prof. Victor Newcole
Ellen Attenbury as  Clerk
Harvey Stephens as  Dr. Marson
Ira Barmak as  Dr. Kirkson
 

Directed by Alex Sagal

Produced by 
Henry T. Weinstein

Writing credits Sally Benson,
Alfred Hayes, 
Norman Lessing, 
Betty Smith (novel)

Production Company:
MGM = Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 

The film 

MGM’s “Joy In The Morning” returns to the motion picture 
screen for a special attraction engagement in response to the 
newborn public demand for love stories in the classic film tradition. 
The film released in 1965. 
 

I’ll bring you the gift of a sky full of bluebirds
with never the sign of a cloud up above,
I’ll bring you the lilt of the laughter of children
and joy in the morning love.

Joy, joy, joy in the morning, Joy in the morning as 
long as you live; And these are the things I will give to my darlin’,
These are the things to my darlin’ I’ll give.

A realistic portrayal of Betty Smith’s 
personal experience.

As a young girl at the University 
of Michigan she falls in love with 
and marries a fellow law student. 

This poignant, extremely, touching love story set in a 1920s traditional mid western campus: 
The University of Michigan.