Marjorie Morningstar ( Marjorie Morning star )

Marjorie Morningstar (DVD) (*)

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Alternate Title: Marjorie Morning star
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Oscar Academy Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
122 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu

Movie filmed in 1958 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Irving Rapper

Written By:
Everett Freeman
Herman Wouk

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

Synopsis:

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, the more full-fledged sexuality in their relationship is never explicitly communicated). They plan to marry, but after the musical's critical failure on Broadway, Noel runs away. Marjorie finally tracks him down at the summer theater where they first met--and, realizing that this is probably where he belongs, finally gives up on the relationship. Helping her to move on with her life is Wally, once Noel's assistant, now a very successful Broadway playwright, and all along, Marjorie's unrequited lover. The movie ends with a clear implication Wally and Marjorie will finally be a couple.

Marjorie Morningstar is a 1958 melodrama film based on the 1955 novel of the same name. 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 film's trajectory traces Marjorie Morgenstern's attempts to become an artist - exemplified through her relationship with the actor and playwright Noel Airman. The central conflict in the film revolves around the traditional models of social behavior and religious behavior expected by New York Jewish families in the 1950s, and Marjorie's desire to follow an unconventional path. The film is notable for its inclusion of Jewish religious scenes - including a Passover meal, a synagogue sequence and Jewish icons in the Morgenstern house. These depictions were one of the first times Jewish religion was portrayed overtly in film since The Jazz Singer in 1927. Marjorie Morningstar is also notable for its role in propagating the stereotype of the Jewish American Princess as well as the Jewish mother stereotype.

A young Jewish girl falls in love with a philanderer but eventually sees him as he is and gives him up.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 25 April, 2013.

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