Deep Waters

Can DescriptionsNHF has Reels 1 and 2 only. Romance drama: Fisherman and landlubber are brought together by small boy. From Ruth Moore's novel Spoonhandle. 'Late in August 1947 Vinalhaven folks heard the rumor that the 20th Century Fox might choose our town as 'location' for the filming of 'Deep Waters.'....on Sept 28, 1947, several of the leading actors, among whom were were Dana Andrews, Cesar Romero and Jean Peters, arrived. A short time later, Anne Revere, Mae Marsh and Dean Stockwell appeared. The filming of the play was in the hands of the famous movie director Henry King. It had its beginning at Old Harbor, so called, on Monday, September 29, 1947. The following day was cloudy, with bleak N.W. winds, and a promise of stormy weather. Happily, the skies cleared during the night, and morning dawned with a brisk breeze still in evidence but which gradually died away and warm sunshine took its place. The filming took place, this time at Chestnut St., on Wednesday, Oct. 1, near the home of Lafayette Smith. Later in the afternoon, at about 2:30, location was shifted to the old steamboat pier near Grimes' Point (known then as Smith's Point). Other locations during the movie folks' visit at Vinalhaven, were on the premises of Stanton M. Strawson at Granite Island, near Seal Bay, so called, at the northern end of Vinalhaven and several shots from different points of Vinalhaven's Main Street and surroundings....It is reported that the star of the play, Jean Peters, observed her 21st birthday while on location in Vinalhaven, and received a half dozen large cakes baked by Vinalhaven housewives w with whom she was immensely popular.' Fish Scales and Stone Chips by Sidney L. Winslow, 1952. Machigonne Press, Portland, Maine