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Summer Magic is a american film of genre Comedy directed by James Neilson released in USA on 7 july 1963 with Hayley Mills
Summer Magic (1963)
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Add to a movie listSummer Magic is a 1963 Walt Disney Productions film starring Hayley Mills, Burl Ives, and Dorothy McGuire in a story about a Boston widow and her children taking up residence in a small town in Maine. The film was based on the novel Mother Carey's Chickens by Kate Douglas Wiggin and was directed by James Neilson. The film was Mills' fourth of six films for Disney, and the young actress received a Golden Globe nomination for her work.
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Financial problems force young Boston widow Margaret Carey (Dorothy McGuire) and her 3 children to move out of their home. Nancy (Hayley Mills), the dramatic and kind-hearted eldest, remembers a large yellow house that the Careys had admired when they visited the small town of Beulah, Maine, and makes an inquiry about it. Upon the sale of the family's treasured piano ("Flitterin'"), Nancy reveals that the house is vacant and the family decides to relocate to the country ("Beautiful Beulah").Actors
Hayley Mills
(Nancy Carey)
Burl Ives
(Osh Popham)
Dorothy McGuire
(Mrs. Margaret Carey)
Deborah Walley
(Julia Carey)
Eddie Hodges
(Gilly Carey)
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