IMDb plot summary: 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. They pursue an on-again-off-again relationship.
Directed by Irving Rapper. Starring Gene Kelly, Natalie Wood, Claire Trevor, and Everett Sloane.
For a movie with a female title character, it's a little startling how little personality or agency Marjorie has by the end. The movie is absolutely in the "Difficult Geniuses and the Women Who Love Them" genre but it purports to be *her* story. It definitely isn't, and the only thing that does make her distinct from any other woman in this story is a subplot that just... simply disappears halfway through. Gene Kelly leans heavily into the romantic melodrama tone, but he's not a particularly compelling dramatic actor, and he's overshadowed by every other actor. Just kind of a strange messy movie, and it doesn't work well.
How it entered my Flickchart:
Marjorie Morningstar < Runaway Bride
Marjorie Morningstar < Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen
Marjorie Morningstar > A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935)
Marjorie Morningstar > Repo! The Genetic Opera
Marjorie Morningstar > Sans of Iwo Jima
Marjorie Morningstar < Out of Time
Marjorie Morningstar > Legendary Weapons of China
Marjorie Morningstar < Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: The Adventure Begins
Marjorie Morningstar > Young Mr. Lincoln
Marjorie Morningstar > Davy Crockett and the River Pirates
Marjorie Morningstar > Brother Bear
Marjorie Morningstar < Hercules
Final spot: #2385 out of 3096.
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