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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.
A Summer Place is a 1958 novel by Sloan Wilson, and follows his 1955 bestseller The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit.The novel is about an adult couple who rekindle a long-ago summer romance that ended because of class differences, and their two teenage children from other marriages who also fall in love with each other.
"Theme from A Summer Place" remains the longest-running number one instrumental in the history of the Hot 100. Billboard ranked Faith's version as the number one song for 1960 . The Faith version reached number 2 on the UK Singles Chart , spending 31 weeks on the chart, and it was also a number 1 hit in Italy under the title "Scandalo al sole".
A Summer Place may refer to: A Summer Place, a 1958 novel by Sloan Wilson; A Summer Place, a 1959 American romantic drama film based on the novel "Theme from A Summer Place", a 1959 song written for the film
The big break of Donahue's career came when he was cast opposite Sandra Dee in the 1959 Warner Bros' film A Summer Place, directed by Delmer Daves.The movie was released to mixed critical reception, however still managed to gain widespread popularity and became a box office hit.
Warner Bros. borrowed her for another melodrama in the vein of Imitation of Life, A Summer Place (1959), opposite Troy Donahue as her romantic costar. The film was a massive hit, and that year American box office exhibitors voted Dee the 16th-most popular star in the country. [24]
Constance Ford was born Cornelia M. Ford on July 1, 1923, in The Bronx, to parents Cornelia R. (née Smith) and Edwin J. Ford.Her siblings were Arthur, John, and Evelyn. [2] [3] Ford was a graduate of St. Barnabas Grammar and High School, and she attended Hunter College. [4]
In the 1959 movie A Summer Place], the characters Ken Jorgenson (Richard Egan) and Sylvia (Dorothy McGuire) have a beach house, which was filmed at the Clinton Walker House. In the film, Sylvia tells Molly ( Sandra Dee ) that Frank Lloyd Wright designed the house, seemingly located on the East Coast near the movie's "Pine Island" location.