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    Marjorie Morningstar

    1958 · Drama · 2h 3m

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  1. Marjorie Morningstar is a 1958 American drama film directed by Irving Rapper from a screenplay by Everett Freeman, based on the 1955 novel of the same name by Herman Wouk. The film tells a fictional coming-of-age story about a Jewish girl named Marjorie Morgenstern in New York City in the 1950s, chronicling her attempts to become an artist ...

  2. Marjorie Morningstar is a 1955 novel by Herman Wouk about a woman who wants to become an actress. Marjorie Morningstar has been called "the first Jewish novel that was popular and successful, not merely to a Jewish audience but to a general one". [2] In 1958, the book was the basis for a Hollywood movie starring Natalie Wood, also titled ...

  3. Natalie Wood stars as a young Jewish woman who falls in love with an older man, Gene Kelly, at a summer camp. The film explores her dilemma between love and career, and features a score by Sammy Fain.

    • (1.3K)
    • Drama, Romance
    • Irving Rapper
    • 1958-04-24
  4. 3.98. 8,883 ratings845 reviews. A starry-eyed young beauty, Marjorie Morgenstern is nineteen years old when she leaves New York to accept the job of her dreams-working in a summer-stock company for Noel Airman, its talented and intensely charismatic director. Released from the social constraints of her traditional Jewish family, and thrown into ...

    • (8.9K)
    • Paperback
  5. This technicolor drama stars screen beauty Natalie Wood and movie legend Gene Kelly. Set in New York, it's a story based on Herman Wouk's 1955's novel, 'Marj...

    • 122 min
    • 759.9K
    • Kristen Rae Johnson
  6. Jun 15, 1992 · Marjorie Morningstar. Paperback – June 15, 1992. by Herman Wouk (Author) 4.2 1,175 ratings. See all formats and editions. Now hailed as a "proto-feminist classic" (Vulture), Pulitzer Prize winner Herman Wouk's powerful coming-of-age novel about an ambitious young woman pursuing her artistic dreams in New York City has been a perennial ...

    • Herman Wouk
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  8. A young Jewish woman falls in love with a older aspiring playwright, but faces opposition from her family and his insecurities. The movie follows her journey of self-discovery and romance in New York and the Catskills.

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