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The big break of Donahue's career came when he was cast opposite Sandra Dee in the 1959 Warner Bros' film A Summer Place, directed by Delmer Daves.The movie was released to mixed critical reception, however still managed to gain widespread popularity and became a box office hit.
Delmer Daves directed the movie, which stars Richard Egan and Dorothy McGuire as a couple, and Sandra Dee and Troy Donahue as their respective children. The film contains a memorable instrumental theme composed by Max Steiner, which spent nine weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in 1960. [2]
Sandra Dee (born Alexandra Cymboliak Zuck; [1] April 23, 1942 – February 20, 2005) was an American actress. Dee began her career as a child model , working first in commercials and then film in her teenage years.
The cast also features Robert Alda, Sandra Dee, Susan Kohner, Juanita Moore, and Dan O'Herlihy, in alphabetical order. Kohner and Moore each received Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations for Supporting Actress for their performances. Kohner won the Globe award.
The Faith version reached number 2 on the UK Singles Chart, spending 31 weeks on the chart, and it was also a number 1 hit in Italy under the title "Scandalo al sole". Faith won a Grammy Award for Record of the Year in 1961 for his recording. This was the first movie theme and the first instrumental to win a Record of the Year Grammy.
Richard Egan, Sandra Dee, Troy Donahue: Drama: Warner Bros.; based on the novel: Surrender - Hell! John Barnwell: Keith Andes, Susan Cabot, Nestor de Villa: War: Allied Artists. Co-production with the Philippines
Troy Donahue was announced for the male lead relatively early. [5] Eventually Natalie Wood dropped out and Suzanne Pleshette was signed in September 1961. [6] The film was known during production as Lovers Must Learn. [7] Donahue and Pleshette fell in love while filming, and eventually wed, though the marriage lasted less than a year. [8]
Egan had another hit with A Summer Place (1959) at Warner Bros. which co-starred Sandra Dee and Troy Donahue. In 1960, Egan appeared with Jane Wyman and Hayley Mills in Disney's Pollyanna . He co-starred with Joan Collins in Fox's Esther and the King (1960).