Walt Disney's Summer Magic (1963) Trailer

Trailer for the 1963 musical film based on the novel Mother Carey's Chickens by Kate Douglas Wiggin.

Plot: A Boston widow and her children take up residence in a small town in Maine circa the early 1900's.

Starring

Hayley Mills as Nancy Carey
Burl Ives as Osh Popham
Dorothy McGuire as Margaret Carey
Una Merkel as Mariah Popham
Deborah Walley as Julia Carey
James Stacy as Charles Bryant
Eddie Hodges as Gilly Carey
Jimmy Mathers as Peter Carey
Michael J. Pollard as Digby Popham
Wendy Turner as Lallie Joy Popham
Peter Brown as Tom Hamilton
O.Z. Whitehead as Mr. Perkins
Hilda Plowright as Mary
Harry Holcombe as Henry Lord
Marcy McGuire as Ellen (uncredited)

Songs by Richard M. Sherman & Robert B. Sherman.

The screenplay was adapted by Sally Benson, author of the semi-autobiographical short stories that were the basis of M-G-M's similarly themed early 1900s era Meet Me in St. Louis (1944.)

Directed by James Neilson

Release date July 7, 1963

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