Marjorie Morningstar

Marjorie Morgenstern (Natalie Wood) is an 18-year-old, middle-class, Jewish girl from New York who wants nothing more than to be an actress, despite the hopes and wishes of her parents (Everett Sloane and Claire Trevor) that she graduate from college, marry, and settle down to have a family. At the ...more

Herman Wouk's novel -Marjorie Morningstar was one of the biggest selling novels of the middle 20th century, and still sells enough in the 21st century to justify remaining in print. As a movie, however, it was a dubious proposition, owing to the fact that both its story and its characters are so steeped in -- and conflicted about -- the Jewish religion. The basic problem in adapting the book to the screen in 1957 was its Jewishness. Hollywood, as a movie mecca founded largely by businessmen who ...more