Screen Music
A Summer Place－Percy Faith
Andy Williams - A Summer Place 1962
A Summer Place - The Lettermen
A Summer Place is a 1959 romantic drama film based on the novel of the same name by Sloan Wilson. Delmer Daves directed the movie, which stars Richard Egan, Dorothy McGuire, Troy Donahue, and Sandra Dee. The film is now remembered mainly for one of its musical themes.[2]
The story examines the adult lives of two couples, starting with a pair of onetime teenage sweethearts and lovers, Ken (Richard Egan) and Sylvia (Dorothy McGuire), who had come from two different social strata. Ken was a self-supporting college student, working one summer as a lifeguard at Pine Island, an exclusive resort in Maine, while Sylvia's nouveau riche family stayed as guests of the owners. Ken and Sylvia later married other people, who were wrong for them. Ken's frigid wife, Helen, has shut him out romantically, while Sylvia's husband, Bart (Arthur Kennedy), a former Naval officer during World War II, has become an alcoholic, gradually causing the loss of the family fortune. Ken has devoted himself to his career as a research chemist, while Sylvia has devoted herself to motherhood and charity work.
The saving grace of each marriage consists of their children, Sylvia's son, Johnny (Troy Donahue), and Ken's daughter, Molly (Sandra Dee).
Ken and Sylvia meet again on Pine Island after 20 years. Ken has become wealthy through his work, and Bart has turned his family's mansion (their sole remaining asset) into an inn, which has begun to fail and to deteriorate. Johnny and Molly meet and fall in love, and Ken and Sylvia rekindle their old romance.
Helen disapproves of Molly's friendship with Johnny, so she forbids Molly to see him again, but she disobeys her and sees Johnny anyway. Helen later discovers Ken and Sylvia's affair when Molly runs away.
Ken and Sylvia eventually divorce Helen and Bart, and they marry each other. Bart