--- title: 'A Summer Place (1959)' type: 'film' director: 'Delmer Daves' released: '1959-11-18' runtime_minutes: 131 genres: - 'Drama' - 'Romance' countries: - 'United States' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/a-summer-place-1959' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053320/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # A Summer Place (1959) 1959 · 131 min · Drama, Romance · United States ## Synopsis 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. Delmer Daves directed the film, which stars Richard Egan and Dorothy McGuire as a couple, and Sandra Dee and Troy Donahue as their respective children. The film contains a memorable instrumental theme composed by Max Steiner, which spent nine weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in 1960. ## Credits - **Director:** [Delmer Daves](https://cinepixo.com/people/delmer-daves) - **Screenplay:** [Delmer Daves](https://cinepixo.com/people/delmer-daves) - **Original Music Composer:** [Max Steiner](https://cinepixo.com/people/max-steiner) - **Director of Photography:** [Harry Stradling](https://cinepixo.com/people/harry-stradling) - **Editor:** [Owen Marks](https://cinepixo.com/people/owen-marks) ## Cast - [Constance Ford](https://cinepixo.com/people/constance-ford) - [Arthur Kennedy](https://cinepixo.com/people/arthur-kennedy) - [Lewis Martin](https://cinepixo.com/people/lewis-martin) - [Eleanor Audley](https://cinepixo.com/people/eleanor-audley) - [Sandra Dee](https://cinepixo.com/people/sandra-dee) - [Richard Deacon](https://cinepixo.com/people/richard-deacon) - [Troy Donahue](https://cinepixo.com/people/troy-donahue) - [Richard Egan](https://cinepixo.com/people/richard-egan) - [Beulah Bondi](https://cinepixo.com/people/beulah-bondi) - [Dorothy McGuire](https://cinepixo.com/people/dorothy-mcguire) - [Jack Richardson](https://cinepixo.com/people/jack-richardson) - [Ann Doran](https://cinepixo.com/people/ann-doran) - [Arthur Space](https://cinepixo.com/people/arthur-space) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/a-summer-place-1959 Film facts: Wikidata (Q2384579); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.