Talk:Summer of '42

Lost in France
...Dorothy's husband has been killed in France.

If he was a soldier, then how did he get to be killed in France in 1942? --Jumbo 11:17, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

According to the telegram in the film, he was a pilot, and his plane was shot down over France... Perhaps I should correct it.209.169.114.213 17:29, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks! I thought that might have been the case, but wasn't sure. It's been years since I saw the film. --Jumbo 17:35, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

Many scenes in the film of "The Summer of '42" are from Martha's Vineyard. The movie theatre is on Martha's Vineyard. Much of the film's scenery looks like Martha's Vineyard. Did Raucher's experience actually take place on Martha's Vineyard? Martha's Vineyard is sometimes referred to as "the island." — Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.156.174.168 (talk) 22:50, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

The movie theater scenes in the film "The Summer of '42" look to be from a movie theater on Martha's Vineyard; I have been to this neighborhood and inside the theater for a movie about 20 years ago and the street scenes outside and the scenes shot inside look exactly like the theater and street in Martha's Vineyard. There is a site online that claims the theater used in the film was on Lansing Street in Mendocino, CA where much of the film was shot and that that theater no longer exists The author of the book and screenplay Herman Rauscher has said in interviews published online from perhaps old newspapers that the events took place on Nantucket Island. I have heard from a native of Martha's Vineyard that many old locals call Martha's Vineyard "the island." Rauscher seems to have been deliberately vague in the book and does not call the location by a specific name, but he has said that the book was inspired by actual events; there was a Dorothy who lost her husband in the war. As was the case with the film "Love Story" it was common for screenwriters to turn their screenplays into books and the movie studios encouraged this and released the book version around the same time as the movie; the release of the book version of "Love Story" helped make the film and book very popular. Contrary to what some other experts have said, the book version of "The Godfather" was released as a novel by Mario Puzo separate from the movie, and I think, Francis Ford Coppola wrote the screenplay. Unrelated, there are commentators who misidentify the bridges in NYC related to scenes near the end of "Funny Girl" from around the time of the famous tugboat scene. All these films are from around the same time. But even the experts in IMDB make mistakes; they often note important and subtle observations and particulars, but the experts are not always correct either. - signed experts are not perfect. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.24.172.127 (talk) 02:29, 8 January 2022 (UTC)

Soundtrack
The article states: "Due to this lack of songs, when the soundtrack was released, it contained not only the score to Summer, but also a compilation of several of Legrand's other original scores. In spite of these songs' inclusion, 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." That first sentence isn't correct;  except for the opening and closing tracks (which are both variants on the "Summer of '42" theme, all of the music on the album is from a film entitled "Picasso Summer" (hence "The Picasso Suite").  No other scores by Legrand are represented on this album. Rich 06:52, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:Bennett42.JPG
Fair use added. SkierRMH 06:26, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

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Number of speaking parts
The article says "the movie had exactly seven on-screen speaking characters: Dorothy, the Terrible Trio, the two teenage girls and the druggist." But the (apparently unnamed) actress who played Gloria also had lines onscreen. Rich (talk) 17:47, 22 September 2011 (UTC)
 * There is no character named Gloria in Summer of '42. Perhaps the confusion stems from the fact that Christopher Norris (actress), who played Miriam, subsequently portrayed nurse Gloria Brancusi in the 1976–86 TV series Trapper John, M.D.   Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 04:10, 17 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Correction — there is a briefly-seen character named Gloria and she does indeed have lines — when Hermie, Oscy and Benjie go to the movie theater, they meet three girls: Miriam, Aggie and Gloria. Oscy pairs Benjie with Gloria, but Benjie says, "I have to go home", pushes past Oscy and rushes off. Gloria's first line of dialogue is, "It's not important that I go", her second line is, "I'm not being silly... I don't wanna go" and her third line is, "Go without me", as she walks away. The actress who played Gloria is unidentified and not indicated within the film's listings in either IMDb or AFI Catalog.   Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 06:01, 17 November 2018 (UTC)

Add interview with Jennifer O'Neill about "Summer of '42"?
In the actress Jennifer O'Neill Wiki article, the following appears:

Jennifer O’Neill gave an extensive and very detailed "behind the scenes of Summer of '42" interview to columnist / features writer Louis Hillary Park of Scripps Treasure Coast Publishing from her Tennessee home.[5] In this interview she reveals that her agent had to fight to even get a reading for the part, since the role had been cast for an "older woman" to a "coming of age" 15 year old boy, and the director and Warner brothers were only considering actresses over the age of thirty, Barbara Streisand being at the top of the list. 5. ^ Hillary, Louis. "Summer of '42". TC Palm http://web.tcpalm.com/specialreports/summerof42/oneill.html.

This is a rare interview about this movie giving many details about it. Include in the PRODUCTION section ? What say you? Taninao0126 (talk) 20:23, 6 February 2012 (UTC)

Modern headline matter
Has anyone ever stopped to think that if this happened today between a woman of 23 and a boy less than 18 then it would be headline news, her photo would be plastered on every newspaper in the country and she would go to jail for Lord knows how many years. My my, how times have changed. I wish the modern world would get some perspective. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.219.52.118 (talk) 15:39, 14 July 2013 (UTC)
 * even in 1972, child rape was child rape. are we surprised the woman never really came forth? 209.172.23.173 (talk) 04:09, 11 September 2014 (UTC)
 * It would appear that the commenter intended to state, "even in 1942,..."   Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 04:10, 17 November 2018 (UTC)
 * No, the commenter intended to state "even in 1972". the movie didn't even come OUT until 71, how's she gonna comment on it back in 42?! 66.30.47.138 (talk) 05:51, 16 August 2021 (UTC)
 * @209.172.23.173 I think you need to get a bit of historical perspective. Do you really think that in the 70's there was any concept of a woman raping a man (especially if he was not resisting). And what, sexually, was a child?  In many parts of USA the "age of consent" was as low as 13 (for a girl: as noted, the concept of a male being able to 'consent' didn't exist).101.187.174.16 (talk) 12:02, 23 October 2023 (UTC)

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Character names
It should be noted that the on-screen credits do not specify character names, which are indicated in the article on the basis of viewing the film and consulting film databases as well as other resources, such as contemporary reviews. Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 06:36, 17 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Or reading the novelization. ;) -- David Spalding ( ☎   ✉   ✍  ) 21:14, 13 January 2019 (UTC)