Summer Magic (film)

Summer Magic
Summer Magic
	Official theatrical poster
Directed by	James Neilson
Written by	Sally Benson
Based on	Mother Carey's Chickens; by Kate Douglas Wiggin
Produced by	Walt Disney; Ron Miller;
Starring	Hayley Mills; Burl Ives; Dorothy McGuire; Deborah Walley; Eddie Hodges; Jimmy Mathers; Michael J. Pollard; Wendy Turner; Una Merkel;
Cinematography	William Snyder
Edited by	Robert Stafford
Music by	Songs:; Richard M. Sherman; Robert B. Sherman; Score:; Buddy Baker
Production; company	Walt Disney Productions
Distributed by	Buena Vista Distribution
Release date	July 7, 1963;
Running time	110 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	$4,350,000 (US/ Canada rentals)

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".