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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.

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

Genres: Drama, Romance

Starring: Natalie Wood, Gene Kelly, Claire Trevor

Released: April 24, 1958

Runtime: 128.0

Popularity Rating: 0.728

Beachwold Productions, Warner Bros.

United States of America

Marjorie Morgenstern Natalie Wood
Noel Airman Gene Kelly
Rose Morgenstern Claire Trevor
Uncle Samson Ed Wynn
Arnold Morgenstern Everett Sloane
Marsha Zelenko Carolyn Jones
Wally Wronkin Martin Milner
Maxwell Greech George Tobias
Sandy Lamm Edd Byrnes
Lou Michaelson Jesse White
Philip Berman Paul Picerni
Dr. David Harris Martin Balsam
Imogene Norman Ruta Lee
Young Actor Peter Brown
Mrs. Tonia Zelenko Maida Severn
Guest at Marjorie's Home Shelley Fabares
Seth Morgenstern Howard Bert

Camera — Director of Photography: Harry Stradling Sr.
Directing — Director: Irving Rapper
Sound — Original Music Composer: Max Steiner
Writing — Novel: Herman Wouk
Writing — Screenplay: Everett Freeman