Summer of '42 is a 1971 American "coming-of-age" motion picture drama based on the memoirs of screenwriter Herman Raucher. It tells the story of him as a boy in his early teens on his 1942 summer vacation at Nantucket Island off the coast of New England, where he embarked on a one-sided romance with a woman, Dorothy, whose husband had gone off to fight in World War II. Their ill-fated relationship culminates and promptly ends after a drunken depressed Dorothy makes love with him while grieving over the death of her husband. The film was directed by Robert Mulligan, and starred Gary Grimes as Hermie, Jerry Houser as his best friend Oscy, Oliver Conant as their nerdy young friend Benjie, Jennifer O'Neill as Hermie's mysterious love interest, and Katherine Allentuck and Christopher Norris as a pair of girls whom Hermie and Oscy attempt to seduce. Mulligan also has an uncredited role as the voice of an unseen adult Hermie; Academy Award-winning actress Maureen Stapleton (Allentuck's real life mother) also appears in a small, uncredited role, though only her voice appears in the film (calling after Hermie as he leaves the house in an early scene). Robert Mulligan (born August 23, 1925 in The Bronx, New York) is an American film and television director. ... Herman Raucher Herman Raucher (born April 13, 1928 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American author who has written several novels and screenplays, among them the popular Summer of 42 and The Great Santini. ... Jennifer ONeill Jennifer ONeill (born February 20, 1948) is an American actress and author. ... Gary Grimes is an American actor who starred in the movie Summer of 42, playing a teenager who has an affair with a beautiful older woman, played by Jennifer ONeill. ... Michel Legrand (born February 24, 1932 in Paris) is a French musical composer, arranger, conductor and pianist. ... Robert Surtees (Aug 9, 1906 - Jan 5, 1985) was an American cinematographer who won Academy Awards three times, for the films King Solomons Mines, The Bad and the Beautiful and Ben Hur. ... “WB” redirects here. ... is the 99th day of the year (100th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the 1971 Gregorian calendar. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... USD redirects here. ... See also: 1970 in film 1971 1972 in film 1970s in film years in film film // Events February 8 - Bob Dylans hour long documentary film, Eat the Document, premieres at New Yorks Academy of Music. ... A Bildungsroman (IPA: /, German: novel of self-cultivation) is a novelistic form which concentrates on the spiritual, moral, psychological, or social development and growth of the protagonist usually from childhood to maturity. ... This article is about motion pictures. ... Herman Raucher Herman Raucher (born April 13, 1928 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American author who has written several novels and screenplays, among them the popular Summer of 42 and The Great Santini. ... Location in Massachusetts Coordinates: , Country United States State Massachusetts County Nantucket County Settled 1641 Incorporated 1671 Government  - Type Open town meeting Area  - Town  105. ... This article is about the region in the United States of America. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... Robert Mulligan (born August 23, 1925 in The Bronx, New York) is an American film and television director. ... Gary Grimes is an American actor who starred in the movie Summer of 42, playing a teenager who has an affair with a beautiful older woman, played by Jennifer ONeill. ... Jerry Houser (born July 14, 1952) is an American character actor and voice actor in film and television. ... Oliver Conant appeared (as Benji) in the Summer of 42 and the Class of 44, appearing in both with Gary Grimes and Jerry Houser as a trio of adolescent boys. ... Jennifer ONeill Jennifer ONeill (born February 20, 1948) is an American actress and author. ... The introduction to this article provides insufficient context for those unfamiliar with the subject matter. ... Maureen Stapleton. ...

Raucher's novelization of his screenplay was released prior to the film's release, and became a runaway bestseller, to the point that audiences (and even the studio itself) lost sight of the fact that the book was based on the movie and not vice-versa. Though a pop culture phenomenon in the first half of the 1970s, the novelization went out of print and slipped into obscurity throughout the next two decades until a Broadway adaptation in 2001 brought it back into the public light and prompted Barnes & Noble to acquire the publishing rights to the book. The next year, the film received a digitally remastered DVD release from Warner Bros.; today, the book remains in-print, although new copies can only be obtained by special order through Barnes & Noble. A novelization (or novelisation in British English) is a work of fiction that is written based on some other media story form rather than as an original work. ... Popular culture, or pop culture, is the vernacular (peoples) culture that prevails in a modern society. ... For other uses of Broadway, see Broadway. ... A typical Barnes & Noble bookstore. ... DVD (also known as Digital Versatile Disc or Digital Video Disc) is a popular optical disc storage media format. ... “WB” redirects here. ...

Plot

The film opens with a series of grainy, color-warped still photographs appearing over melancholy piano music, representing the abstract memories of the unseen Herman Raucher (Robert Mulligan), a middle-aged Brooklyn Jewish man. After the stills finish, we find Hermie in the present day (1971 according to the book), looking out on the Nantucket sea, recalling the summer he spent on the island in 1942. The film flashes back to a day that "Hermie" (Gary Grimes) and his friends—jock Oscy (Jerry Hauser) and introvert nerd Benjie (Oliver Conant)—spent running and playing on the beach. In the middle of their goofing off, the three boys spot a newlywed young soldier carrying his bride (Jennifer O'Neill) into a house on the beach. The boys are all struck by her beauty, especially Hermie, who finds himself unable to get her out of his mind. A short grand piano, with the lid up. ... This article is about the borough of New York City. ... For other uses, see Jew (disambiguation). ... The term jock is a classic American stereotype of an athlete. ... Introvert is a rock band from Miami, Florida. ... For other uses, see Nerd (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Beach (disambiguation). ...

An adult Hermie (the unseen Robert Mulligan) recalls moments of his youth.

The next several days on the island find the boys continuing to spend their afternoons on the beach, where, in the midst of young, scantily-clad teenage girls, their thoughts invariably turn to sex; all of them are virgins, the height of their experience being when Oscy and Hermie, when they were twelve, touched a girl's breasts. While Oscy is more interested in sex with gorgeous girls, though, Hermie finds himself developing genuine romantic interest in the young bride, whose husband he spots leaving the island on a military transport boat one morning. Later that day, Hermie spots her trying to carry numerous bags of groceries by herself, and helps her get them back to her house. The two strike up a friendship and he agrees to return in the future to help her out with chores. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... In Roman times, Vestal Virgins were strictly celibate or they were punished by death. ... okay that is all ... This article primarily discusses philosophical ideologies in relation to the subject of romantic love. ...

Meanwhile, Benjie mentions that one of the books kept in the beach house his parents are renting is a sex manual. Oscy and Hermie convince the reluctant Benjie to steal the book; upon reading it, Oscy and Hermie become convinced that they now know everything necessary to lose their virginity and become great lovers. They decide to put this hypothesis to the test by going to the island movie house and picking up a trio of girls; Oscy happens to find three high-school girls, and sets about staking out Miriam, the most attractive one, for himself, "giving" Hermie her wallflower friend, Aggie, and leaving Benjie with the third girl, an out-of-shape, bespectacled girl with braces. Frightened by the reality of the concept of sex, Benjie runs away into the night, and is not seen by Hermie or Oscy again the whole summer. The third girl, thinking that her appearance repulsed Benjie, likewise walks away. Hermie and Oscy spend the entirety of the show attempting to "score" with Miriam and Aggie, Oscy aggressively pursuing Miriam to the point that she strikes him, although Oscy soon learns that she is the island "hussy" and simply trying to play hard to get. Hermie, meanwhile, finds himself getting unexpected success with Aggie, who allows him to grope her breast for almost twelve minutes; it isn't until after the show that Oscy points out to Hermie the reason for Aggie's passivity was that Hermie was fondling her elbow, not her breast. Sex manuals are books which explain how to perform sexual intercourse and other sexual practices. ... Look up Hypothesis in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... Look up slut in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

Hermie (Gary Grimes) arrives to help the mystery woman (Jennifer O'Neill) move boxes.

The next day, in preparation for a marshmallow roast with Aggie and Miriam, Hermie goes to the local druggist, and in a protracted sequence attempts to build up the nerve to ask the pharmacist for condoms. He eventually does so, after purchasing some ice cream, telling the pharmacist that the condoms are for his "brother" and that he thinks that they are, in fact, a type of water balloon. Later, Hermie helps the young bride move boxes into her attic, and when he turns down her offer of monetary compensation, she thanks him for his honesty and friendship and gives him a kiss on the forehead. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... For the plant, see Althaea (genus). ... The mortar and pestle is an international symbol of pharmacists and pharmacies. ... This article is about the male contraceptive device. ... Missing image Ice cream is often served on a stick Boxes of ice cream are often found in stores in a display freezer. ... Exploding water balloon eight water balloons lying on pavement A water balloon, or water bomb, is a simple small latex rubber balloon filled with water. ... This article is about the area generally found above a house. ...

That night, during a marshmallow roast, Hermie finds himself unable to "put the moves" on Aggie, although Oscy is successful in having sex with Miriam in between some sand dunes; he is so successful, in fact, that he eventually sneaks over to where Hermie and Aggie are roasting marshmallows and asks Hermie to give him some condoms, having run out of his own. Confused as to what's happening, Aggie follows Oscy back between the dunes, where she sees him having sex with Miriam and runs home crying. Hermie, too, sees the act, although he is more mesmerized than anything. This article is about the sand formations, for other meanings see Dune (disambiguation) Mesquite Flat Dunes in Death Valley National Park In physical geography, a dune is a hill of sand built by eolian (wind-related) processes. ...

The next day, Hermie comes across the young bride sitting outside her house, writing a letter to her husband. Hermie offers to come keep her company that night and she says she looks forward to seeing him, finally revealing that her name is Dorothy. An elated Hermie goes home and puts on a suit, saddle shoes, and a dress shirt, and heads back to Dorothy's house, running into Oscy on the way; Oscy informs Hermie that Miriam's appendix burst that morning and she's been rushed to the mainland. Hermie, now convinced that he is at the brink of adulthood because of his relationship with Dorothy, brushes Oscy off and the two get into a fight. Oscy threatens to tell everyone on the island that Hermie is a homosexual, and storms off; Hermie heads over to Dorothy's house, which he finds eerily quiet. Sneaking in, he discovers an empty bottle of whiskey, several cigarette butts, and a telegram from the U.S. Government, with a time stamp of just an hour prior, saying that Dorothy's husband is dead, his plane having been shot down over France. A drunken Dorothy staggers out of her bedroom, crying, and Hermie comforts her. Dorothy moves to the record player and turns on an album (the movie's theme music) and invites Hermie to dance with her. Near the end of the song, Dorothy kisses Hermie and the two embrace, slowly moving to the bedroom, where she makes love with him. Afterwards, Dorothy puts on her bathrobe and retires to the porch to smoke and cry while Hermie dresses alone in her bedroom. He approaches her on the porch, where she can only say "good night" to him. Hermie leaves, his last image of Dorothy being that of her leaning against the railing, crying as she stares off into the night sky. Saddle shoes are formal two-toned leather footwear, the normal coloration is white and black, although other colorations are frequently sold. ... Look up appendix in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Since its coinage, the word homosexuality has acquired multiple meanings. ... Two unlit filtered cigarettes. ... Telegraphy (from the Greek words tele = far away and grapho = write) is the long distance transmission of written messages without physical transport of letters, originally over wire. ...

Hermie spends the entire night roaming the island in a state of shock. At dawn he meets Oscy on the beach and the two share a silent moment of reconciliation, broken only by Oscy's informing Hermie that Miriam survived her appendix bursting but will remain hospitalized until autumn. Sensing that something traumatic has occurred between Hermie and Dorothy, Oscy, in an uncharacteristic act of sensitivity, lets Hermie be by himself, departing with the words, "Sometimes life is just one big pain in the ass." This article is about the temperate season. ...

Hermie goes back to Dorothy's house to try and sort out what has happened; he finds it abandoned, Dorothy having fled the island in the night. All that remains is an envelope tacked to her front door with Hermie's name on it. Hermie opens it; inside is a note from Dorothy, saying that she hopes he understands that she must go back home to arrange her husband's funeral and deal with familial obligations. She assures Hermie that she will never forget him, and that she hopes one day he will come to terms with what happened that night. Her note closes with the hope that Hermie may be spared the senseless tragedies of life. For other uses, see Funeral (disambiguation). ...

Back in 1971, the adult Herman Raucher stands once more on the beach, looking at Dorothy's old house and the ocean and remembering the day that he, Oscy, and Benjie first saw her, and sadly recounts that in the ensuing years he has never learned what became of Dorothy.

Factual basis

The movie (and subsequent novel) were memoirs written by Herman Raucher; they detailed the events in his life over the course of the summer he spent on Nantucket Island in 1942 when he was fourteen years old.^[1] Originally, the film was meant to be a tribute to his friend Oscar "Oscy" Seltzer, an Army medic killed in the Korean War.^[2][1] Seltzer was shot to death on a battlefield in Korea while attending to a wounded man; this happened on Raucher's birthday, and consequently, Raucher has not celebrated a birthday since. During the course of writing the screenplay, Raucher came to the realization that despite growing up with Oscy and having bonded with him through their formative years, the two had never really had any meaningful conversations or gotten to know one another on a more personal level.^[1] As a literary genre, a memoir (from the French: mémoire from the Latin memoria, meaning memory) forms a subclass of autobiography, although it is an older form of writing. ... Nantucket is an island south of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, formed of glacial moraine. ... Combatants United Nations:  Republic of Korea,  Australia,  Belgium,  Luxembourg,  Canada,  Colombia,  Ethiopia,  France,  Greece,  Luxembourg,  Netherlands,  New Zealand,  Philippines,  South Africa,  Thailand,  Turkey,  United Kingdom,  United States Medical staff:  Denmark,  Australia,  Italy,  Norway,  Sweden Communist states:  Democratic People’s Republic of Korea,  Peoples Republic of China,  Soviet Union Commanders...

Instead, Raucher decided to focus on the first major adult experience of his life, that of falling in love for the first time. The woman (named Dorothy, like her screen counterpart) was a fellow vacationer on the island whom Raucher had befriended one day when he helped her carry groceries home; he became a friend of her and her husband and helped her with chores after her husband was called to fight in World War II. Raucher went to bed with her one night when he came to visit her, arriving only minutes after she received notification of her husband's death.^[1] The next morning, Raucher discovered that she had left the island, leaving behind a note for him (which is read at the end of the film and reproduced in the book). He never saw her again; his last "encounter" with her, recounted on an episode of The Mike Douglas Show, came after the film's release in 1971, when she was one of over a dozen women who wrote letters to Raucher claiming to be "his" Dorothy.^[3] Raucher recognized the "real" Dorothy's handwriting, and she confirmed her identity by making references to certain events only she could have known about.^[3] She told Raucher that she had lived for years with the guilt that she had potentially traumatized him and ruined his life. She told Raucher that she was glad he turned out all right, and that they had best not re-visit the past.^[3][1] Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... The Mike Douglas Show was an American daytime television talk show hosted by Mike Douglas that ran from 1961 to 1982. ...

In a 2002 interview, Raucher lamented never hearing from her again and expressed his hope that she was still alive.^[1] Raucher's novelization of the screenplay, with the dedication, "To those I love, past and present," serves more as the tribute to Seltzer that he had intended the movie to be, with the focus of the book being more on the two boys' relationship than Raucher's relationship with Dorothy. Consequently, the book also mentions Seltzer's death, which is omitted from the film adaptation.^[4]

Production

Herman Raucher wrote the film script in the 1950s during his tenure as a television writer, but "couldn't give it away."^[1] In the 1960s, he met Robert Mulligan, who had just finished directing To Kill a Mockingbird. Raucher showed Mulligan the script, and Mulligan took it to Warner Brothers, knowing that the studio was looking for a follow up to Mockingbird. Mulligan told Warner Brothers that the film could be shot for the relatively low price of a million dollars, and Warner Brothers approved making the picture.^[1] They had so little faith in the movie becoming a box-office success, though, that they shied from paying Raucher outright for the script, instead promising him ten percent of the gross.^[1] To Kill a Mockingbird is a 1962 Academy Award winning film directed by Robert Mulligan and based on the novel of the same name by Harper Lee. ...

When casting for the role of Dorothy, Warner Brothers declined to audition any actresses younger than the age of thirty; Jennifer O'Neill's agent, who had developed a fondness for the script, convinced Warner Bros. to audition his client, who was only twenty-two at the time.^[5] O'Neill auditioned for the role, albeit hesitantly, not wanting to perform any nude scenes; O'Neill ended up getting the role and Robert Mulligan agreed to find a way to make the film work without blatant nudity.^[5] Jennifer ONeill Jennifer ONeill (born February 20, 1948) is an American actress and author. ...

Though the film took place on Nantucket, by the 1970s the island was too far modernized to be convincingly transformed to resemble a 1940s resort, so production was taken out to the West Coast of the United States.^[1] Shooting took place over eight weeks, during which Jennifer O'Neill was sequestered from the three boys cast as "The Terrible Trio," in order to ensure that they didn't become close and ruin the sense of awkwardness and distance that their characters felt towards Dorothy. Production ran smoothly, finishing on schedule.^[1]

After production, Warner Brothers, still wary about the film only being a minor success, asked Raucher to adapt his script into a book.^[1] Raucher wrote it in three weeks, and Warner Brothers released it prior to the film to build interest in the story.^[1] The book quickly became a national bestseller, so that when trailers premiered in theatres, the film was billed as being "based on the national bestseller," despite the movie having been completed first.^[4][1] Ultimately, the book became one of the best selling novels of the first half of the 1970s, requiring 23 re-prints between 1971 and 1974 to keep up with customer demand.^[4]

Soundtrack

The soundtrack to Summer of '42

The film's soundtrack consists almost entirely of compositions by Michel Legrand, many of which are variants upon The Summer Knows, the movie's theme. In addition to Legrand's scoring, the film also features the song "Hold Tight" by The Andrews Sisters and the theme from Now Voyager. Due to this lack of songs, when the soundtrack was released, it contained not only the score to Summer, but also Legrand's composition "The Picasso Suite." In spite of this, many issues of the album are still labeled as exclusively being the soundtrack to Summer, while others contain the notation in small print on the album cover "Also contains The Picasso Suite." Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Michel Legrand (born February 24, 1932 in Paris) is a French musical composer, arranger, conductor and pianist. ... The Andrews Sisters on the cover of the reissue collection From left to right: Maxene, Patty, and LaVerne. ... Now Voyager was the first solo album released by Barry Gibb of the Bee Gees. ...

Reception and awards

The film became a blockbuster upon its release, grossing twenty-five million dollars. making it the fourth highest grossing film of 1971 and one of the most successful movies in history, with an expense to profit ratio of 1:25.^[6] According to Herman Raucher, his ten-percent of the gross (it is estimated that video rentals and purchases in the United States since the 1980s have produced an additional $20.5 million dollars),^[7] in addition to royalties from book sales, has "paid bills ever since."^[1] In addition to being a commercial success, the film also received rave critical reviews; it counted among its fans Stanley Kubrick, who in a rare moment of pop-culture infusion into his films, had the movie play on a television in a scene in The Shining. A rental shop is a store where a consumer can hire reusable products for a certain period of time before returning them. ... Kubrick redirects here. ... For other uses of this term, see Shining. ...

A Tony Bennett recording of "The Summer Knows"

Summer of '42 went on to be nominated for over a dozen awards, including the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Drama, the Golden Globe Award for Best Director, and the Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay.^[8] Ultimately, the film only won two awards, the Academy Award for Original Music Score and the BAFTA Anthony Asquith Award for Film Music, both of which went to Michel Legrand.^[8] Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Drama has been awarded annually since 1944 by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. ... Golden Globe Award for Best Director - Motion Picture has been awarded annually since 1944 by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. ... // The Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay is the Academy Award for the best script not based upon previously published material. ... The Academy Award for Original Music Score is presented to the best substantial body of music in the form of dramatic underscoring written specifically for the film by the submitting composer. ... The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), is a British organization that hosts annual awards shows for film, television, childrens film and television, and interactive media. ...

Sequel

In 1973, the film was followed up with a sequel, Class of '44, a slice-of-life movie made up of vignettes about Herman Raucher and Oscar Selzter's experiences in college prior to fighting in the Korean War. The only crew member left from Summer of '42 was Raucher himself, with a new director and composer being brought in to replace Mulligan and Legrand. Of the principal four cast members of Summer of '42, only Jerry Houser and Gary Grimes returned for prominent roles. Oliver Conant did appear in the film, albeit for less than five total minutes of screen time. Jennifer O'Neill did not appear in the film at all, nor was the character of Dorothy mentioned. The film met with poor critical reviews; the only three reviews available at rottentomatoes.com are resoundingly negative,^[9][10] with Channel 4 calling it "a big disappointment,"^[11] and The New York Times stating "The only things worth attention in 'Class of 44' are the period details," and "'Class of '44' seems less like a movie than 95 minutes of animated wallpaper.".^[12] Class Of 44 is the 1973 sequel to the surprise hit from two years earlier, The Summer Of 42, which shows teenage Bennie (Gary Grimes) and his two friends (Jerry Houser and Oliver Conant)growing up and entering the military while in new England. ... A slice of life story is a category for a story that portrays a cut-out sequence of events in a characters life. ... Combatants United Nations:  Republic of Korea,  Australia,  Belgium,  Luxembourg,  Canada,  Colombia,  Ethiopia,  France,  Greece,  Luxembourg,  Netherlands,  New Zealand,  Philippines,  South Africa,  Thailand,  Turkey,  United Kingdom,  United States Medical staff:  Denmark,  Australia,  Italy,  Norway,  Sweden Communist states:  Democratic People’s Republic of Korea,  Peoples Republic of China,  Soviet Union Commanders... Rotten Tomatoes (http://www. ... The New York Times is a daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed internationally. ...

Influence

Legrand's song, The Summer Knows, has since become a pop standard, being recorded by such artists as Frank Sinatra, Andy Williams, and Barbra Streisand. The term pop standards refers to an American songwriting, arranging, and singing style that is widely considered as the high point of Western vocal popular music. ... Sinatra redirects here. ... For other persons named Andrew Williams, see Andrew Williams (disambiguation). ... Barbra Joan Streisand (born April 24, 1942) is an American singer, theatre and film actress, composer, liberal political activist, film producer and director. ...

The 1973 song Summer (The First Time) by Bobby Goldsboro has almost exactly the same subject and apparent setting, although there is no direct credited link. Bryan Adams has however credited the film as being a partial inspiration for his 1985 hit Summer of '69.^[13] Bobby Goldsboro (born Bobby Goldsborough, January 18, 1941, in Marianna, Florida), is an American country/pop singer, as well as a songwriter. ... For other persons of the same name, see Brian Adams. ... Summer of 69 is one of Canadian rock singer Bryan Adamss biggest hits and most recognizable songs. ...

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Remakes and re-releases

In the ensuing years since the film's release, Warner Brothers has attempted to buy back Herman Raucher's ten-percent of the film as well as his rights to the story so that it could be remade; Raucher has consistently declined.^[1] The 1988 film Stealing Home shares numerous similarities not only to Summer of '42 but also Class of '44, with several incidents (most notably a subplot dealing with the premature death of the protagonist's father and the protagonist's response to it) appearing to have been directly lifted from Raucher's own life; Jennifer O'Neill stated in 2002 that she believes "Home" was an attempted remake of "Summer".^[14] Stealing Home is a 1988 movie in which Mark Harmon plays a former baseball player who is called home to handle the ashes of his childhood sweetheart/first love who had committed suicide. ...

In 2001, Raucher consented to the film being made into a Broadway musical play.^[1] Raucher was on hand for opening night, giving the cast a pep-talk which he concluded, "We've now done it every possible way--except go out and piss it in the snow!" ^[15] The play met with positive critical and fan response, and was in fact endorsed by Raucher himself, but the play was forced to close down in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.^[1] Nevertheless, the play was enough to spark interest in the movie and book with a new generation, prompting Warner Bros. to re-issue the book (which had since gone out of print, along with all of Raucher's other works) for sale with Barnes & Noble's online bookstore, and to restore the film and release it on DVD.^[1] The musical has since been performed across the country, at venues such as Kalliope Stage in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, and was subsequently recorded as a concert by the York Theatre Company in 2006. For other uses of Broadway, see Broadway. ... A sequential look at United Flight 175 crashing into the south tower of the World Trade Center The September 11, 2001 attacks (often referred to as 9/11—pronounced nine eleven or nine one one) consisted of a series of coordinated terrorist[1] suicide attacks upon the United States, predominantly... A typical Barnes & Noble bookstore. ... Cleveland Heights is a city located in Cuyahoga County, Ohio. ...

In 2002, Jennifer O'Neill claimed to have obtained the rights to make a sequel to Summer of '42, based on a short story she wrote, which took place in an alternate reality in which Herman Raucher had a son and divorced his wife, went back to Nantucket in 1962 with a still-living Oscar Seltzer, and encountered Dorothy again and married her.^[5] As of 2006, this project—which O'Neill had hoped to produce with Lifetime television,^[16] has not been realized, and it is unknown whether O'Neill is still attempting to get it produced, or if Raucher ever consented to its production. Lifetime can refer to: Life expectancy, the length of time a person is alive One of the American media ventures owned by Lifetime Entertainment Services Lifetime (TV network), a cable television network Lifetime Movie Network, a cable movie network Lifetime (band), an American melodic hardcore punk band from New Jersey...

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s} Interview with Herman Raucher by TC Palm. tcpalm.com. Retrieved July 5, 2006.
2. ^ Korean War Memorial - Oscar Seltzer koreanwar.org. Retrieved July 5, 2006.
3. ^ ^{a b c} The Mike Douglas Show, Interview with Herman Raucher. Original date of broadcast unknown.
4. ^ ^{a b c} Raucher, Herman. Summer of '42. 23rd Edition. New York: Dell, 1974.
5. ^ ^{a b c} Interview with Jennifer O'Neill tcpalm.com. Retrieved July 6, 2006.
6. ^ All Movie Guide: Summer of '42 allmovie.com. Retrieved July 6, 2006.
7. ^ Internet Movie Database: Summer of '42 Business Data imdb.com Retrieved July 3, 2006.
8. ^ ^{a b} Internet Movie Database: Summer of '42 Awards and Nominations Listing imdb.com Retrieved August 11, 2006
9. ^ Rotten Tomatoes: Class of '44 rottentomatoes.com Retrieved August 11, 2006
10. ^ Timeout Film Review: Class of '44 timeout.com Retrieved August 11, 2006,
11. ^ Channel 4 Film Reviews: Class of '44 channel4.com Retrieved August 11, 2006
12. ^ New York Times Film Review: Class of '44 nytimes.com Retrieved August 11, 2006
13. ^ Summer of '69 lyrics explained by co-author jimvallance.com Retrieved July 6, 2006.
14. ^ Jennifer O'Neill in 2002 tv-now.com Retrieved August 11, 2006
15. ^ Starry, Starry Morning: Charles Nelson's Casts and Forecasts on TheatreMania.com TheatreMania Retrieved September 3, 2007
16. ^ Summer of '42 Plus Twenty usatoday.com. Retrieved July 6, 2006.

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External link

• Summer of '42 at the Internet Movie Database