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Summer Holiday
Summer Holiday is a 1948 American musical-comedy film, directed by Rouben Mamoulian and starring Mickey Rooney and Gloria DeHaven. The picture is based on the play Ah, Wilderness! (1933) by Eugene O'Neill, which had been filmed under that name by MGM in 1935 with Rooney in a much smaller role, as the younger brother. Although completed in October 1946, the film sat on the shelf until 1948.
Plot
In Danville, Connecticut, in June 1906, 17-year-old Richard Miller is about to graduate from high school, go to Yale, and step into the world of adults. He has a cynical view of the world because of all the books he has been reading. He has a girlfriend, Muriel McComber, whom he loves very much (she lives across the street), but she is afraid of being kissed. He tries to convince her as they sing "Afraid to Fall in Love". He does not get the kiss, but they do dance across the park.
More details
| author | Albert Hackett Eugene O'Neill Frances Goodrich |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Connecticut |
| director | Rouben Mamoulian |
| editor | Albert Akst |
| genre | comedy historical |
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| musicBy | Conrad Salinger |
| producer | Arthur Freed |
| productionCompany | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| publisher | Loews Cineplex Entertainment |
| theme | high school musical |