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A Summer Place. (film) A Summer Place is a 1959 American romantic drama film based on Sloan Wilson 's 1958 novel of the same name, about teenage lovers from different classes who get back together 20 years later, and then must deal with the passionate love affair of their own teenage children by previous marriages.
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Synopsis. Self-made millionaire research chemist Ken Jorgenson (Richard Egan), a former lifeguard at the exclusive summer community on Pine Island, Maine, returns there 20 years later as a guest with his wife Helen (Constance Ford) and their 16-year-old daughter Molly (Sandra Dee). Ken reserves rooms at the home of jaded alcoholic Bart Hunter ...
The big-screen adaptation of Sloan Wilson's popular novel follows wealthy Ken Jorgenson (Richard Egan) as he brings his wife (Constance Ford) and teenage daughter, Molly (Sandra Dee), to the Maine ...
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- Richard Egan
- Delmer Daves
- Warner Brothers/Seven Arts
From the novel A Summer Place by Sloan Wilson (New York, 1958).
- Delmer Daves, Gil Kissel, Russell Llewellyn
- Richard Egan
The house where Ken ( Richard Egan) and Sylvia ( Dorothy McGuire) lived toward the end of the film is an actual private residence that was built by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1948. It still stands today on Scenic Road in Carmel-by-the-Sea and is a prime feature in local tours. Browse Fun Facts and Trivia about at Classic Movie Hub (CMH).
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A Summer Place is strange in that it starts out a far more interesting and dynamic film than it ultimately becomes; the first half is great, building a potent slow-burning love story that focuses on two middle-aged people rekindling their decades old love after years apart.