Summer Magic

Summer Magic is a 1963 Walt Disney Productions family 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. The young actress received a Golden Globe nomination for her work.

Summer Magic was Hayley Mills' fourth film in the series of six for Disney.

Mills later said it was the worst of the movies she made for Disney.