An innocent but rebellious 18-year-old Jewish girl from the suburbs dreams of becoming an actress, and sets off in search of love and career success in New York - only to become torn by a moral dilemma. Romantic drama, starring Natalie Wood, Gene Kelly, Claire Trevor and Carolyn Jones. Adapted from the best-selling book by Herman Wouk.

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.