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Summer Magic - 1963 Walt Disney must have been disappointed when his first attempt at a live action musical, Babes in Toyland, turned out to be a box office bomb. Thankfully it didn't dissuade him from making more. Walt had another musical in mind for Annette Funicello based on a turn-of-the-century novel called Mother Carey's Chickens by Kate Douglas Wiggins. For unknown reasons, but probably ...
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Summer Magic: Directed by James Neilson. With Hayley Mills, Burl Ives, Dorothy McGuire, Deborah Walley. A Bostonian widow moves with her kids to the country.
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- Comedy, Family, Musical
- James Neilson
- 1963-07-07
Synopsis. THAT WONDERFUL HAYLEY! a-flitterin’ in a romantic whirl of her own! Mother Carey, a Bostonian widow, and her three children move to Maine. Postmaster Osh Popham helps them move into a run-down old house and fixes it up for them. It’s not entirely uninhabited, though; the owner, Mr. Hamilton, is a mysterious character away in ...
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- Walt Disney Productions
- James Neilson
Jan 10, 2017 · A musical drama and comedy based on Kate Douglas Wiggin’s 1911 novel Mother Carey’s Chickens, Summer Magic was theatrically released on July 7, 1963. The live action film is 110 minutes in length. Plot Summary. In turn-of-the-twentieth-century Boston, the Carey family, which consists of a mother named Margaret (Dorothy McGuire), a teenage ...
When widowed Margaret Carey (Dorothy McGuire) gets into money trouble, her teenage daughter, Nancy (Hayley Mills), devises a plan to cut costs. She writes to Osh (Burl Ives), the caretaker of an ...
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Mar 9, 2020 · Summer Magic Movie Review (1963) Today, I present another Hayley Mills/Disney movie, her fourth, and with the Sherman Brothers as the magic behind the music. For this project, I’m focusing on the story itself, including dialogue, character development, any subplot s, how a story presents itself, the speed at which it moves, if it slows down unnecessarily, etc.
