Summer and Smoke (1961) on Netflix
In a small Mississippi town in 1916, Alma Winemiller, the minister's daughter, longs for John Buchanan Jr., the doctor's son next door. He keeps other company.
- Netflix3.4/5
- IMDb6.8/102,272 votes
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Cast
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- Cheryl Andersonas Alma as a Girl (uncredited)
- Lon Ballantyneas Orderly (uncredited)
- John Bartonas Townsman (uncredited)
- Ray Beltramas Cantina Patron (uncredited)
- Dick Bernieas Drummer (uncredited)
- Eumenio Blancoas Cantina Patron (uncredited)
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Summer and Smoke (1961)
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- Hal Wallis first offered the lead of his Tennessee Williams adaptation to Audrey Hepburn, who turned it down because she did not want to play a dowdy spinster. Wallis's wife Martha Hyer said he then offered it to Katharine Hepburn, who demanded too much money, and the part went to Geraldine Page.
- Geraldine Page was expected to win Best Actress at the 22nd Venice Film Festival, where the film premiered, but the award went to Suzanne Flon for Thou Shalt Not Kill, and the crowd booed.
- Hal Wallis cast Laurence Harvey as the male lead on the strength of his work in Room at the Top (1958). Wallis wrote that Rip Torn, the husband of co-star Geraldine Page, probably would have been better in the role but that Harvey was the bigger name at the time.
- Pamela Tiffin, a model, made her film debut in Summer and Smoke in the role that had originally been intended for Dolores Hart.
- The producers closed the set of Summer and Smoke to all visitors so the cast could concentrate on their roles and avoid distractions.
