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Troy Donahue (born Merle Johnson Jr., January 27, 1936 – September 2, 2001) was an American film and television actor, best known for his role as Johnny Hunter in the film A Summer Place. He was a popular sex symbol in the 1950s and 1960s.
Pleshette's 1964 marriage to her Rome Adventure and A Distant Trumpet co-star Troy Donahue [42] ended in divorce after six months. [ 43 ] Her second husband was oilman "Tommy" Thomas Joseph Gallagher III [ 44 ] (born January 28, 1934, in Galveston, Texas, to Thomas Joseph Gallagher Jr., and Toy Fay née Rice ), [ 45 ] to whom she was married ...
In 1883, U.S. Army Cavalry 2 nd Lieutenant Matthew Hazard, newly graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York (on the Hudson River), is assigned to isolated Fort Delivery on the Mexican border of the Arizona Territory in the early 1880s, where he meets 1 st Lieutenant Teddy Mainwarring's wife Kitty, whom he later rescues from an Indian attack.
Alcoholic Bart Hunter (Arthur Kennedy), his long-suffering wife Sylvia (Dorothy McGuire) and their teenage son Johnny (Troy Donahue) operate a crumbling inn on Pine Island off the Maine coast. The inn was previously Bart's elegant family mansion in an exclusive resort, but as his family fortunes have dwindled, the Hunters are forced to rent ...
Troy Donahue was announced for the male lead relatively early. [5] Eventually Natalie Wood dropped out and Suzanne Pleshette was signed in September 1961. [6] The film was known during production as Lovers Must Learn. [7] Donahue and Pleshette fell in love while filming, and eventually wed, though the marriage lasted less than a year. [8]
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. [17]
The former "Donahue" host, who died Aug. 18 at age 88 after a long illness, raised his four sons as a single dad in Chicago after divorcing his first wife, Margaret Cooney, in 1975.
Stevens' popularity on the small screen and as a recording star encouraged Warner Bros. to try her in films. She starred in three films for the studio, all opposite Troy Donahue: Parrish (1961), as a rural girl; Susan Slade (1962), playing the title role, an unwed mother; and Palm Springs Weekend (1963), a teen romantic comedy. [17]