MAKE A WISH (1937) Bobby Breen, Basil Rathbone & Marion Claire | Comedy, Musical, Romance | B&W

Make a Wish is a 1937 American musical comedy film directed by Kurt Neumann and starring Bobby Breen, Basil Rathbone and Ralph Forbes.

SYNOPSIS
While at summer camp in the Maine woods, little Bobby Breen befriends composer Basil Rathbone, who left the city to try and break his creative block, and is soon playing matchmaker for his widowed singer mother and Rathbone.

CAST & CREW
Bobby Breen as Chip Winters
Basil Rathbone Johnny Selden
Marion Claire as Irene Winters
Ralph Forbes as Walter Mays
Donald Meek as Butler Joseph
Billy Lee as Pee Wee
Henry Armetta as Composer Moreta
Leon Errol as Composer Brennan
Herbert Rawlinson as Camp Manager Stevens
Charles Richman as Mr. Wagner
Fred Scott as Minstrel
Lillian Harmer as Clara
Johnny Arthur as Antoine
Richard Tucker as Grant
Leonid Kinskey as Moe
Tommy Ryan as Chunky
Barbara Barondess as Secretary
Billy Lechner as Judge
Lew Kelly as Mailman
Dorothy Appleby as Telephone Girl

Directed by Kurt Neumann
Written by Bernard Schubert, Gertrude Berg, William Hurlbut, Al Boasberg, Earle Snell
Produced by Sol Lesser
Cinematography John J. Mescall
Edited by Arthur Hilton
Music by Hugo Riesenfeld, Oscar Straus
Production company Principal Productions
Distributed by RKO Radio Pictures
Release date August 27, 1937
Running time 77 minutes
Country United States
Language English

NOTES
Hugo Riesenfeld received a nomination for the Academy Award for best musical score for this film