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Does Molly get pregnant in A Summer Place? ›

Back at school, Molly learns from a doctor that she is pregnant, and John hitchhikes across the country to be with and support her. Ken and Sylvia give their guarded approval to John and Molly's marriage, feeling it would be hypocritical for them to deny the teenagers their love.

In the book, Molly is 13 when they first meet and Johnny is 16. Her age is not revealed in the film. However, there are some clues. When Molly is telling Johnny how she learned to kiss, she mentions that she was a sophom*ore in high school, which would make her at least 15.

The local justice of the peace suspects that they are under legal age to marry, and turns them down. In desperation, Molly and Johnny go to the house of Ken and Sylvia, who are supportive. In the end, happy Johnny and Molly, just married, return to Pine Island for their honeymoon.

I can't imagine how difficult it was for Dee – who was only sixteen when A Summer Place was shot – to balance her newfound stardom with her past and present traumas, but the fact that she could so expertly hide that pain (even though she obviously should not have had to) and become a candy-coated icon of teen fun is a ...

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THAT'S RIGHT. Molly ended up pregnant after all.

Sandra Dee fell in love with Donahue in the movie that propelled him to stardom: 1959's A Summer Place.

All those sea shore scenes were shot in Pacific Grove and Pebble Beach. And Richard and Dorothy's new home toward the end of the movie was supposed to be on Pine Island in Maine but actually is a house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright that sits at the southern edge of Carmel Bay!

The song I am offering is the instrumental version of “Theme from A Summer Place” by Percy Faith (released in Sept 1959 and entered Billboard's Top 100 in January 1960 and later held the No.

First published in 1958 and then turned into a film of the same name in 1959 featuring Troy Donahue, Sandra Dee, Dorothy McGuire and Richard Egan, this classic romance is available for the first time in ebook format. Ken and Sylvia met twice at the Summer Place. The first summer they were in their teens.

What is the summer place a novel about? ›

All three women in the Weinberg/Danhauser family have built professional lives around their creative interests: Veronica is a writer, Sarah is a musician, Ruby works in the theater. Both Veronica and Sarah must make choices and sacrifices as they balance their creative lives with their professional and family lives.

Due to its popularity, “Theme From A Summer Place” was dropped into the early period feature dramas The Crowded Sky (1960), Claudelle Inglish (1961), and Susan Slade (1961), and used cast members from the original source film, A Summer Place (1959).

Death. After requiring kidney dialysis for the last four years of her life, Dee died of complications from kidney disease on February 20, 2005, at the Los Robles Hospital & Medical Center in Thousand Oaks, California, at the age of 62.

Pleshette filed for divorce in June 1964 on the grounds of mental cruelty from Donahue. She was awarded the divorce by the Superior court in Santa Monica, California. She would later state that Donahue was a "sweet, good man... [They] just were never destined to be married [and] didn't have the same values."

The big-screen adaptation of Sloan Wilson's popular novel follows wealthy Ken Jorgenson (Richard Egan) as he brings his wife (Constance Ford) and teenage daughter, Molly (Sandra Dee), to the Maine vacation spot where he worked as a middle-class youth. When Ken reunites with his former flame, the now-married Sylvia (Dorothy McGuire), it sparks a passionate tryst. Meanwhile, Sylvia's son, Johnny (Troy Donahue), and Molly begin a romance of their own, unaware of their parents' affair.

A Summer Place / Film synopsis

In the original broadcast in Canada (which was previously set to premiere the same time on CBS) saw Molly reveal that she was in fact pregnant. However this was removed from the episode when it later aired on CBS (and the subsequent DVD release) and the storyline was wrapped up in the premiere of Season 4.

The star of Food Network's Girl Meets Farm and her husband Nick Hagen welcomed their second child, a daughter named Ira Dorothy Yeh Hagen, on Sunday, Feb. 20, a rep for Yeh confirms to PEOPLE exclusively. Baby Ira arrived at 9:20 a.m., weighing 8 lbs, 12 oz. and measuring 21½ inches at birth.

And Season 4 began with Molly decidedly not pregnant -- instead, quitting her staid teaching job to pursue her dream of becoming a writer.