Marjorie Morningstar (1958)
Would this glamorous girl choose love...or a star-spangled Career?
Starring Natalie Wood, Gene Kelly, Claire Trevor
Directed by Irving Rapper
While working as a counselor at a summer camp, college-student Marjorie Morgenstern falls for 32-year-old Noel Airman, a would-be dramatist working at a nearby summer theater. Like Marjorie, he is an upper-middle-class New York Jew (born 'Ehrman'), but has fallen away from his roots, and Marjorie's parents object among other things to his lack of a suitable profession, such as medicine or law. Noel himself warns Marjorie repeatedly that she's much too naive and conventional for him, but they nonetheless fall in love. As they pursue an on-again-off-again relationship, Marjorie completes her studies at Hunter College, and works to establish an acting career, while Noel first leaves the theater for a job with an advertising agency, but later completes a musical he'd started writing before he and Marjorie had first met.
Runtime: 128 min.
Rating: 6.1
DVD
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America
Genres: Drama,Romance
Keywords: summer camp,love,advertising agency,summer theater
Cast
Marjorie Morgenstern
Noel Airman
Rose Morgenstern
Uncle Samson
Arnold Morgenstern
Marsha Zelenko
Wally Wronkin
Maxwell Greech
Sandy Lamm
Lou Michaelson
Philip Berman
Dr. David Harris
Imogene Norman
Young Actor
Mrs. Tonia Zelenko
Guest at Marjorie's Home
Seth Morgenstern