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Summer of '42 (1971)

Poster for Summer of '42

In everyone's life there's a "Summer of '42"

Over the summer of 1942 on Nantucket Island, three friends -- Hermie, Oscy and Benjie -- are more concerned with getting laid than anything else. Hermie falls in love with the married Dorothy, whose husband is an army pilot recently sent to the battlefront of World War II.

Cast & Crew

Director
Robert Mulligan
  • Profile picture of Jennifer O'Neill
    Dorothy Jennifer O'Neill
  • Profile picture of Gary Grimes
    Hermie Gary Grimes
  • Profile picture of Jerry Houser
    Oscy Jerry Houser
  • Profile picture of Oliver Conant
    Benjie Oliver Conant
  • Profile picture of Katherine Allentuck
    Aggie Katherine Allentuck
  • Profile picture of Christopher Norris
    Miriam Christopher Norris
  • Profile picture of Lou Frizzell
    Druggist Lou Frizzell
  • Profile picture of Walter Scott
    Dorothy's Husband (uncredited) Walter Scott

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  • first love
  • older woman younger man relationship
  • sexual awakening
  • 1940s
  • summer cottage
  • soldier's wife