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Release Date: 15 January, 2002 Retail Price: $14.98 OUR Price: $12.99 You SAVE: $1.99! Cast: Complete Cast (14 total) |
Marjorie Morningstar Reviews
High-Grade Curd
Never read the book and, after seeing this, had a hard time imagining why anyone ever did. That said, this misbegotten saga of a Jewish teenager trying to crash show biz (think That Girl with bar mitzvahs) is a semi-forgotten Cheese Fest of the highest order, a real treat for bad-movie buffs who've grown weary of Jackie Susann and Ross Hunter movies. See Natalie Wood spew "You rotten tramp!" to two-timing Gene Kelly. See miscast Gene acting his toupee off during a hissy fit with some Broadway producers. And see wise-cracking Carolyn Jones waltz off with the whole show in the inexplicable role of Marjorie's slutty galpal, a knockout who's somehow unable to hook anyone better than Jesse White (The Maytag Repairman). Vintage Brie gone horribly, odiforously, delectably wrong!
Marjorie Morningstar (1958)
Sister #2: Our family had become regulars at the Admiral Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard where we saw "Marjorie Morningstar."
"Marjorie Morningstar," based on the magnificent Herman Wouk novel, had everything a young nine year old dreamer like myself loved: Natalie Wood as a young Jewish would-be actress in New York, Gene Kelly as Noel Airman, the talented and self-destructive music composer, and a catching, sentimental theme song, "A Very Precious Love."
I remember being particularly astonished at the scene where Natalie Wood (Marjorie) discovers Gene Kelly (Noel) has been with another woman and slaps his face saying, "Get out of my way, you rotten tramp!" I had begun a pre-adolescent crush on Gene Kelly a year earlier and, thanks to my mother's doing, had received his black and white, autographed picture in the mail.
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