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Overview

User Rating:
6.7/10   733 votes
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Director:
Writers:
Sally Benson (screenplay)
Kate Douglas Wiggin (book)
Contact:
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Release Date:
7 July 1963 (USA) more
Genre:
Tagline:
HAYLEY'S IN A WHIRL! Breezing through her sixteenth summer! more
Plot:
A Bostonian widow moves with her kids to the country. full summary | add synopsis
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Awards:
Nominated for Golden Globe. more
User Comments:
loved it! more (29 total)

Cast

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Hayley Mills ... Nancy Carey

Burl Ives ... Osh Popham
Dorothy McGuire ... Margaret Carey
Deborah Walley ... Julia Carey
Una Merkel ... Mariah Popham
Eddie Hodges ... Gilly Carey

Michael J. Pollard ... Digby Popham

Peter Brown ... Tom Hamilton
James Stacy ... Charles Bryant
Jimmy Mathers ... Peter Carey
O.Z. Whitehead ... Mr. Perkins
Wendy Turner ... Lallie Joy Popham
Harry Holcombe ... Henry Lord
Hilda Plowright ... Mary
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Additional Details

Runtime:
110 min
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Language:
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.75 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (RCA Sound Recording)
Certification:
Australia:G | UK:U | USA:Approved (certificate #20390) | USA:G (re-rating) (1992)

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Originally planned as a vehicle for Annette Funicello. more
Quotes:
Digby Popham: I remember the night before I left Beulah, I was talking to Pa about seein' the city and the gals and all, and he said: "Amid pleasures and palaces, wherever you may roam, be it ever so humble there's no place like home."
Gilly Carey: He sang it?
Digby Popham: No, he said it. He made it right up! You know, if he ever wanted to I think Pa could've made a great poet.
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Soundtrack:
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4 out of 5 people found the following comment useful.
loved it!, 10 June 2005
10/10
Author: katesgram from USA

I adored this movie- I bought it because when I was on vacation I had seen all but the last half hour of it on TV and wanted to see the end. I bought it and have watched it at least 5 times. My 5 year old granddaughter also loves it. You should hear her sing Ugly Bug Ball! The songs are wonderful catchy tunes- especially the one's Burl Ives from an innocent time. How I long for the days when movies were made like this. So much better than what is considered acceptable today. The dresses were just beautiful. There are some hilarious scenes- such as when Burl Ive's character is looking for a picture of Mr. Hamilton's "Mother". If you listen to the comments from his wife about the woman in the picture. ( a prohibitionist) "Insisted on going down with the ship everyone else was saved- crew and captain"

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