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Make a Wish (1937 film)

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Director
  
Kurt Neumann

Music director
  
Hugo Riesenfeld

Duration
  

Language
  
English

6.2/10
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Genre
  
Comedy, Musical

Country
  
United States

Make a Wish (1937 film) movie poster

Cast
  
Bobby Breen
(Chip Winters),
Basil Rathbone
(Johnny Selden),
Henry Armetta
(Moreta),
Donald Meek
(Joseph),
Leon Errol
(Brennan),
Billy Lee
(Pee Wee)

Release date
  
27 August 1937

Writer
  
Gertrude Berg (story), Al Boasberg (additional dialogue), William Hurlbut (additional dialogue), Bernard Schubert, Earle Snell

Genres
  
Comedy, Musical, Musical comedy

Similar movies
  
Related Kurt Neumann movies

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

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Plot

Whilst at summer camp in the Maine woods, young Chip Winters (Breen) befriends British composer Johnathan Selden (Rathbone), who left the city high life to try and break his creative block, and is soon playing matchmaker for his widowed singer mother Irene Winters (Claire) and Selden.

Cast

  • Bobby Breen as Chip Winters
  • Basil Rathbone Johnny Selden
  • Marion Claire as Irene Winters (her only film appearance)
  • 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
  • Reception

    The film was a mild success.

    Awards

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

    References

    Make a Wish (1937 film) Wikipedia
    Make a Wish (1937 film) IMDb Make a Wish (1937 film) themoviedb.org