Make a Wish

Sep 1, 1937

1h 17m

★ 5.5

"THE BIGGEST LITTLE SINGING STAR" IN A MELODY DRAMA OF THE MAINE WOODS!

Overview

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.

Genres

Music

Comedy

Production Companies

Sol Lesser Productions

Bobby Breen Productions Inc.

Make a Wish Trailers

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Cast

Chip Winters

Bobby Breen

Johnny Selden

Basil Rathbone

Moreta

Henry Armetta

Joseph

Donald Meek

Brennan

Leon Errol

Pee Wee

Billy Lee

Walter Mays

Ralph Forbes

Moe

Leonid Kinskey

Dr. Stevens

Herbert Rawlinson

Station Agent

Spencer Charters

Antoine

Johnny Arthur

Mailman

Lew Kelly

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