Marjorie Morningstar (film)

Marjorie Morningstar is a 1958 melodrama film based on the 1955 novel of the same name by Herman Wouk. The film, released by Warner Bros. and directed by Irving Rapper tells a fictional coming of age story about a young Jewish girl in New York City in the 1950s. The films trajectory traces Marjorie Morgensterns attempts to become an artist exemplified through her relationship with the actor and playwright Noel Airman. The films cast includes Natalie Wood, Gene Kelly, and Claire Trevor.

Marjorie Morgenstern is a student at Hunter College and the girlfriend of an eligible young man, Sandy Lamm, who attends her familys synagogue. Her parents are happy with her choice of mate, and her mother Rose Morgenstern Claire Trevor tells her father, Arnold Everett Sloane, that she hopes the two kids marry.Marjorie breaks up with the boy, though, and goes to the Adirondacks that summer to be a camp counselor. One night, Marjorie and friend Marsha Zelenko Carolyn Jones sneak to a Borscht Belt resort for adults called South Wind. There she is caught by resort owner Maxwell Greech George Tobias, but social director Noel Airman Gene Kelly vouches for Marjorie as a guest and offers her a job, beginning a relationship with Airman and a friendship with aspiring playwright Wally Wronkin Martin Milner, who writes Airmans stage act. The latter has a romantic interest in Marjorie, but shes tempted by the older, cynical Airman, who meets the disapproval of her parents. Airman, whose original name was the more Jewish Ehrman, renames Marjorie as well from Morgenstern to Morningstar. ........

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