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Marjorie Morningstar: Directed by Irving Rapper. With Gene Kelly, Natalie Wood, Claire Trevor, Everett Sloane. At 18, Marjorie Morgenstern is the proverbial New York Jewish-American princess on the cusp of womanhood.
Marjorie Morgenstern (Natalie Wood), a college girl from a conventional Jewish family, finds herself increasingly drawn to the acting profession after becoming smitten with Catskills...
- Drama
At 18, Marjorie Morgenstern is the proverbial New York Jewish-American princess on the cusp of womanhood. While she has in the back of her mind that she would like to become a stage actress, she is less certain about her personal future.
Jun 15, 1992 · Released from the social constraints of her traditional Jewish family, and thrown into the glorious, colorful world of theater, Marjorie finds herself entangled in a powerful affair with the man destined to become the greatest--and the most destructive--love of her life.
- Herman Wouk
Marjorie Morningstar, novel by Herman Wouk, published in 1955, about a woman who rebels against the confining middle-class values of her industrious American Jewish family. Her dream of being an actress ends in failure. She ultimately forfeits her illusions and marries a conventional man with whom.
Jan 15, 2013 · Description. 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 favorite since it was first a bestseller in the 1950s.
Jan 15, 2013 · Marjorie Morningstar. Herman Wouk. Little, Brown, Jan 15, 2013 - Fiction - 584 pages.