Marjorie Morningstar

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

A mid-century romantic drama about a young woman's passionate summer affair with an older, bohemian artist, caught between love and parental expectation.

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, but has fallen away from his roots, and Marjorie's parents object among other things to his lack of a suitable profession. Noel himself warns Marjorie repeatedly that she's much too naive and conventional for him, but they nonetheless fall in love.