---
title: 'Summer Magic (1963)'
type: 'film'
director: 'James Neilson'
released: '1963-07-07'
runtime_minutes: 100
genres:
  - 'Music'
  - 'Romance'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/summer-magic-1963'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057542/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Summer Magic (1963)

1963 · 100 min · Music, Romance · United States


## Synopsis

Summer Magic is a 1963 American musical film directed by James Neilson, and starring Hayley Mills, Burl Ives, and Dorothy McGuire in a story about an early 1900s 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. It was the fourth of six films that Mills appeared in for Disney, and the young actress received a Golden Globe nomination for her work. While reviews of the film were mostly positive, Mills herself later criticized it as "the worst".

## Credits

- **Director:** [James Neilson](https://cinepixo.com/people/james-neilson)
- **Screenplay:** [Sally Benson](https://cinepixo.com/people/sally-benson)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Buddy Baker](https://cinepixo.com/people/buddy-baker), [Sherman Brothers](https://cinepixo.com/people/sherman-brothers)
- **Producer:** [Walt Disney](https://cinepixo.com/people/walt-disney)
- **Director of Photography:** [William E. Snyder](https://cinepixo.com/people/william-e-snyder)
- **Editor:** [Robert Stafford](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-stafford)

## Cast

- [Peter Brown](https://cinepixo.com/people/peter-brown) as Tom Hamilton
- [Burl Ives](https://cinepixo.com/people/burl-ives) as Osh Popham
- [Oothout Zabriskie Whitehead](https://cinepixo.com/people/oothout-zabriskie-whitehead) as Mr. Perkins
- [Deborah Walley](https://cinepixo.com/people/deborah-walley) as Cousin Julia
- [Dorothy McGuire](https://cinepixo.com/people/dorothy-mcguire) as Margaret Carey
- [Michael J. Pollard](https://cinepixo.com/people/michael-j-pollard) as Digby Popham
- [Una Merkel](https://cinepixo.com/people/una-merkel) as Maria Popham
- [Paul E. Burns](https://cinepixo.com/people/paul-e-burns) as drinker
- [James Stacy](https://cinepixo.com/people/james-stacy) as Charles Bryan
- [Eddie Quillan](https://cinepixo.com/people/eddie-quillan) as mailman
- [Norman Leavitt](https://cinepixo.com/people/norman-leavitt) as barber
- [Wendy Turner](https://cinepixo.com/people/wendy-turner) as Lallie Joy
- [Hayley Mills](https://cinepixo.com/people/hayley-mills) as Nancy Carey
- [Jim Mathers](https://cinepixo.com/people/jim-mathers) as Peter Carey
- [Eddie Hodges](https://cinepixo.com/people/eddie-hodges) as Gilly Carey

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Official site: http://movies.disney.com/summer-magic
Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/summer-magic-1963
Film facts: Wikidata (Q2207300); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.