Summer of '42 - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

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Fan of Summer of '42 or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to Summer of '42

[carla]

The only non-Best Picture Oscar nominee that year to be nominated for Best Cinematography.

[linda]

In the novel, it is revealed that after Dorothy left Hermie, new people bought her house.

[elmer]

Michel Legrand's Theme from "Summer of '42" was released as a single in the spring of 1971 on a 45 rpm record, Warner Brothers 7486. The B-side was Summer Song, from the movie The Picasso Summer (1969).

[tom]

In 2002 Tcpalm extended interview with Herman Raucher, Herman said that he had no idea how old Dorothy was. He also said that Dorothy could have been 20, for all he knew.

[janice]

Since the audience is exploring Dorothy in the film through Herman Raucher's point of view, the viewer doesn't know how much Dorothy in the film differs from the real Dorothy. Jennifer O'Neill played Dorothy in this film based on how Raucher saw the real Dorothy through his point of view.

[jesus]

The relationship between the real Dorothy and Herman Raucher was longer than what the viewer sees in the film. Raucher first helped Dorothy carry her groceries when her husband was there. After her husband left for war, Dorothy became alone and Herman would bump into her. Herman helped her again by carrying groceries and later putting boxes in the attic like the viewer sees in the film.

[mathew]

According to Stanley Kubrick's wife Christiane Kubrick, this was one of his favorite films.

[frederick]

Michel Legrand had previously used the main theme for this film in the film 'La Piscine' (1969). Despite this, Legrand won the Oscar in 1971 for Best Original Score for 'The Summer of '42.' Coverserly, Nino Rota's score for 'The Godfather' in 1972 was nominated for the Oscar and then saw the nomination withdrawn when it was learned Rota had borrowed only seconds of his score from another film he had scored previously. John Addison's score for 'Sleuth' was nominated in the stead after Rota's unceremonious removal from eligibility.

[kylie]

A small piece of this movie (the scene where Hermie helps bring home Dorothy's groceries) appears on TV in Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining," simply because Kubrick thought "Summer of '42" was such a great film.

[brent]

With the exception of the beginning credits and the end, Michel Legrand used his music only around the scenes that involved Dorothy and the scenes that showed Hermie's romantic feelings towards Dorothy.

[bessie]

Although the real Dorothy wrote to Herman that she will remember him in her 1942 letter, still she contacted Herman again only after the release of this film in 1971. After Dorothy's 1971 letter to Herman, Herman never heard from Dorothy again. Herman wanted to contact Dorothy. But he didn't know where to write to her, because Dorothy didn't reveal her address in her 1971 letter to Herman.

[sophie]

In 2002 TCPalms Interview, Herman Raucher said that the postmark of the real Dorothy's 1971 letter was Canton, Ohio. Herman also said that the real Dorothy was worried about what she had done to him and his psyche. Herman also added this "And no one has ever thought about that. Everybody thought, 'Oh, that's interesting. The kid grew up.' But it was a traumatic event." And her last sentence was, 'The ghosts of that night 30 years ago are better left undisturbed.'

[darrell]

Two years later a second movie with the three male characters (and the same actors) was made called Class of '44 (1973).

[cameron]

For this film, Herman Raucher admitted about moving the order of certain events around and interchanging some dialogue. There are several notable differences between Dorothy in the book and Dorothy in the film. Unlike Dorothy in the book, Dorothy in the film is far more kind, considerate, and loving. For example, one of the changes is where Hermie's tongue gets hurt by the coffee. Both in the film and in the book, Dorothy helps Hermie by providing ice when Hermie's tongue gets hurt by the hot coffee. Unlike Dorothy in the book, Dorothy in the film repeatedly apologizes to Hermie for the coffee being too hot and makes sure that he is doing fine. In the film, Dorothy moves on to her work and also to a conversation "only" after she makes sure that Hermie's tongue is feeling better. But in the book, there is no indication of an apology from Dorothy. In the book, when Hermie was "able" to look up to see what Dorothy was doing after getting relief from the ice cubes, he saw her sitting opposite to him and she was already eating one of the doughnuts and she was talking about her old 1934 stove.

[maureen]

While the real-life incidents took place on Nantucket Island, the name of the island isn't mentioned in this film. In the novel, the location was changed to "Packett Island".

[jim]

When the movie first released on video it was rated R but later it was re-rated to PG.

[jamie]

The telegram on Dorothy's coffee table at the end of the movie lists her married name as Walker. It also gives her address as 210 North Corry Street in Bangor, Maine, and reveals that her husband was a member of the U.S. Army Air Corps and was killed in action over France.

[fred]

Maureen Stapleton is the uncredited off-screen voice of Hermie's mother. Hermie's date for the movies, Aggie, is played by Katherine Allentuck, Stapleton's real-life daughter.

[charlie]

In 2002 TCPalms interview, Herman Raucher mentions that this film gave birth to the book "Summer of '42." Herman Raucher revealed that this movie was written first. Not the book. When this film was in post-production, someone told him to write the book about Summer of '42 to help publicize the picture. So Raucher wrote the book in about 3 or 4 weeks.