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Summer and Smoke is a 1961 American drama film directed by Peter Glenville, and starring Laurence Harvey and Geraldine Page, with Rita Moreno, Una Merkel, John McIntire, Thomas Gomez, Pamela Tiffin, Malcolm Atterbury, Lee Patrick, and Earl Holliman.
Summer and Smoke: Directed by Peter Glenville. With Laurence Harvey, Geraldine Page, Rita Moreno, Una Merkel. A plain, repressed spinster falls for a dashing young medical student who prefers the wilder life, until it's too late.
Laurence Harvey is Doctor John Buchanan, the handsome young man Alma has loved since childhood. But when a sul ...more. From the towering genius of Tennessee Williams comes a story of passions lost...
Uptight single woman Alma Winemiller (Geraldine Page) carries a torch for the boy next door, who has grown up into dashing doctor John Buchanan Jr. (Laurence Harvey).
- Drama
A small-town spinster's repressed love for the local rebel spells danger.
Summer and Smoke is a two-part, thirteen-scene play by Tennessee Williams, completed in 1948. He began working on the play in 1945 as Chart of Anatomy, derived from his short stories "Oriflamme" and the then-work-in-progress "Yellow Bird".
Summer and Smoke. Summaries. A plain, repressed spinster falls for a dashing young medical student who prefers the wilder life, until it's too late. Since childhood, spinster Alma Winemiller has loved handsome young Dr. John Buchanan, Jr..
Synopsis by Hal Erickson. Tennessee Williams' Broadway play Summer and Smoke (expanded from his one-act piece Eccentricities of a Nightingale) was brought to the screen by adaptors James Poe and Meade Roberts and director Peter Glenville.
