Make a Wish

1937 PG-13 1h 17m

5.8 / 10 11

RATING

5.8/10

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While vacationing at a boys' camp, the rambunctious Chip Winters befriends a famed composer Johnny Selden. Stuck for an inspiration for his latest operetta, Selden at last finds it when he meets Chip's gorgeous mother Irene Winters, a popular singer. Alas, her stiff-necked fiancé Walter Mays refuses to allow her to return to the stage, whereupon Rathbone spirals into a depression -- and even worse, a profound case of writers' block.

Director Kurt Neumann

Writers

Bernard Schubert Gertrude Berg Earle Snell

Stars

Bobby Breen Basil Rathbone Henry Armetta

Music Comedy

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Geronimo1967 20 Jun 2022

6/10

This is quite a curious little film with Basil Rathbone ("Johnny") as a composer who takes a cabin near a boys summer camp. There he encounters an engaging, outgoing, bunch of young boys who inspire him to overcome his writer's block and pen a blockbuster musical. Now, ordinarily, I'm with Herod when it comes to kids, even more so when they have a leading role - and sing, too - but Bobby Breen ("C...