Summer Magic

1963
G
1h 50m

IMDb RATING

6.9/10

2.8K

YOUR RATING

Hayley Mills and Peter Brown in Summer Magic (1963)

A Bostonian widow moves with her kids to the country.

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Comedy Family Musical

A Bostonian widow moves with her kids to the country.A Bostonian widow moves with her kids to the country.A Bostonian widow moves with her kids to the country.

Director
- James Neilson
Writers
- Sally Benson
- Kate Douglas Wiggin
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

IMDb RATING

6.9/10

2.8K

YOUR RATING

Director
- James Neilson
Writers
- Sally Benson
- Kate Douglas Wiggin
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 1 nomination

Storyline

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Trivia
One of the paintings considered by Ossian "Osh" Popham (Burl Ives) to be Mrs. Hamilton is now hanging in the Golden Horseshoe at Disneyland.

Quotes
Margaret Carey: It's Julia. She's coming to live with us.
Gilly Carey: Oh, no!
Nancy Carey: Oh, please! Not Julia!
Margaret Carey: I want you two out of those dying gladiator attitudes! Julia is your cousin and a Carey and I don't want you to forget that, ever. Try to remember that Julia's story is rather a sad one. She never even knew her mother! And after her dear father died, the Fergusons very kindly took her in and raised her.
Nancy Carey: Kindly took her in? George Ferguson had a guilty conscience. He knew those stocks he sold Julia's father were as worthless as ours.

Crazy credits
Opening credits: PLACE: BOSTON TIME: RAG

Connections
Edited into The Magical World of Disney: Summer Magic: Part 1 (1965)

Soundtracks
Flitterin'
(uncredited)
Written by Robert B. Sherman and Richard M. Sherman
Sung by Hayley Mills, Eddie Hodges, and Dorothy McGuire (dubbed by Marilyn Hooven)

My sister and I discovered this movie at least 20 years ago, and fell in love with it instantly. It is just utterly delightful. Hayley Mills plays the oldest daughter of a newly impoverished family that moves to an old yellow house in Maine. Dorothy McGuire plays the widowed mother; Burl Ives is at his incomparable best in the role of Osh Popham, the town's general factotum married to what has to be the gloomiest woman in the state of Maine, if not the United States. Based on the book "Mother Carey's Chickens," by Kate Douglas Wiggin, the story was well adapted for the screen, maintaining the integrity and heart of the novel while making the cast a little more manageable. This truly is a feel good movie that you'll want to add to your collection.