Marjorie Morningstar (1958)

Cast

Complete credited cast:
	Gene Kelly	...	Noel Airman
	Natalie Wood	...	Marjorie Morgenstern
	Claire Trevor	...	Rose Morgenstern
	Everett Sloane	...	Arnold Morgenstern
	Martin Milner	...	Wally Wronkin (as Marty Milner)
	Carolyn Jones	...	Marsha Zelenko
	George Tobias	...	Maxwell Greech
	Martin Balsam	...	Dr. David Harris
	Jesse White	...	Lou Michaelson
	Edd Byrnes	...	Sandy Lamm (as Edward Byrnes)
	Paul Picerni	...	Philip Berman
	Alan Reed	...	Puddles Podell
	Ruta Lee	...	Imogene Norman
	Ed Wynn	...	Uncle Samson

Storyline

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. Meanwhile, their relationship deepens (though, consistent with '50s Hollywood mores... Written by HelenLipson<lipson@mnstate.edu>  

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