Marjorie Morningstar

Marjorie Morningstar

Would this glamorous girl choose love...or a star-spangled Career?

NR 1958 · 123 min · ★ 6.3 · Drama, Romance

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, but has fallen away from his roots, and Marjorie's parents object among other things to his lack of a suitable profession. Noel himself warns Marjorie repeatedly that she's much too naive and conventional for him, but they nonetheless fall in love.

Directed by Irving Rapper · Written by Everett Freeman

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Gene Kelly Noel Airman
Natalie Wood Marjorie Morgenstern
Claire Trevor Rose Morgenstern
Everett Sloane Arnold Morgenstern
Martin Milner Wally Wronkin
Carolyn Jones Marsha Zelenko
George Tobias Maxwell Greech
Martin Balsam Dr. David Harris
Jesse White Lou Michaelson
Edd Byrnes Sandy Lamm
Paul Picerni Philip Berman
Alan Reed Puddles Podell

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