Marjorie Morningstar 65 years old

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

Marjorie Morningstar

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.

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Marjorie Morningstar Cast

Name Character
Claire Trevor She was 48, 90 years old when she died as Rose Morgenstern
Martin Balsam He was 38, 76 years old when he died as Dr. David Harris
Shelley Fabares She was 14, now 80 years old as Guest at Marjorie's Home
Natalie Wood She was 19, 43 years old when she died as Marjorie Morgenstern
Paul Picerni He was 35, 88 years old when he died as Philip Berman
Ed Wynn He was 71, 79 years old when he died as Uncle Samson
Everett Sloane He was 48, 55 years old when he died as Arnold Morgenstern
Ruta Lee She was 21, now 87 years old as Imogene Norman
Gene Kelly He was 45, 83 years old when he died as Noel Airman
Carolyn Jones She was 27, 53 years old when she died as Marsha Zelenko
George Tobias He was 56, 78 years old when he died as Maxwell Greech
Jesse White He was 41, 80 years old when he died as Lou Michaelson
Edd Byrnes He was 24, 86 years old when he died as Sandy Lamm
Martin Milner He was 26, 83 years old when he died as Wally Wronkin
Peter Brown (actor) He was 22, 80 years old when he died as Young Actor

Marjorie Morningstar Crew

Name Department
Max Steiner as Original Music Composer. He was 69 (83) years old when He died Sound
Harry Stradling Sr. as Director of Photography. He was 56 (68) years old when He died Camera
Herman Wouk as Novel. He was 42 (103) years old when He died Writing
Irving Rapper as Director. He was 60 (101) years old when He died Directing
Everett Freeman as Screenplay. He was 47 (80) years old when He died Writing
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Marjorie Morningstar (65 years)

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

  • Release day: Thursday, April 24, 1958
  • Runtime: 128 minutes