<P> A Summer Place is a 1959 romantic drama film based on Sloan Wilson 's 1958 novel of the same name , about teenage lovers from different social classes who get back together twenty years later , and then must deal with the passionate love affair of their own teenage children by previous marriages . Delmer Daves directed the movie , which stars Richard Egan and Dorothy McGuire as the middle - aged lovers , and Troy Donahue and Sandra Dee as their children . The film contains a memorable instrumental theme composed by Max Steiner , which spent nine weeks at # 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in 1960 . </P>
<P> A Summer Place is a 1959 romantic drama film based on Sloan Wilson 's 1958 novel of the same name , about teenage lovers from different social classes who get back together twenty years later , and then must deal with the passionate love affair of their own teenage children by previous marriages . Delmer Daves directed the movie , which stars Richard Egan and Dorothy McGuire as the middle - aged lovers , and Troy Donahue and Sandra Dee as their children . The film contains a memorable instrumental theme composed by Max Steiner , which spent nine weeks at # 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in 1960 . </P>
who starred in the movie a summer place
who starred in the movie a summer place
Richard Egan Dorothy McGuire Troy Donahue Sandra Dee
Richard Egan Dorothy McGuire Troy Donahue Sandra Dee