Gary Grimes

Class of ’44 (1973)

[5] Gary Grimes and Jerry Houser reprise their roles from the emotionally charged Summer of ’42 in this lackluster, somewhat pointless follow-up. Whereas Summer of ’42 was very much about a young man’s sexual awakening with an older woman, Class of ’44 is more of a slice-of-life movie with no overarching narrative goal. It sees Grimes and Houser’s characters off to college while their friend …

Summer of ’42 (1971)

[9] Gary Grimes stars as Hermie, a sensitive teenager spending his summer on Nantucket Island, idling away the hours reading comic books, watching movies, and wandering the beaches with his friends. But when he meets a kind, twenty-something newlywed named Dorothy (Jennifer O’Neill) who’s waiting for her husband to return from the battlefront, he becomes infatuated with her. While his friend Oscy (Jerry Houser) obsesses …