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.
Gene Kelly
as Noel Airman
Natalie Wood
as Marjorie Morgenstern
Claire Trevor
as Rose Morgenstern
Everett Sloane
as Arnold Morgenstern
Martin Milner
as Wally Wronkin
Carolyn Jones
as Marsha Zelenko
George Tobias
as Maxwell Greech
Martin Balsam
as Dr. David Harris
Jesse White
as Lou Michaelson
Edd Byrnes
as Sandy Lamm
Paul Picerni
as Philip Berman
Alan Reed
as Puddles Podell
