On Moonlight Bay (film)

On Moonlight Bay
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Roy Del Ruth
Produced by	William Jacobs
Written by	Booth Tarkington (stories)
Screenplay by	Jack Rose Melville Shavelson
Based on	Penrod Stories
Starring	Doris Day Gordon MacRae Jack Smith
Music by	Max Steiner
Cinematography	Ernest Haller
Edited by	Thomas Reilly
Distributed by	Warner Bros.
Release dates	July 26, 1951 (1951-07-26)
Running time	95 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	$2.5 million (US rentals)^[1]

On Moonlight Bay is a 1951 musical film directed by Roy Del Ruth which tells the story of the Winfield family at the turn of the 20th century. The movie is based loosely on the Penrod stories by Booth Tarkington. There was a 1953 sequel, By the Light of the Silvery Moon.

Plot

On Moonlight Bay centers on the character Marjorie Winfield, a tomboy played by Doris Day. When the Winfield family moves into a new house in a small town in Indiana, the daughter, Marjorie, begins a romance with the boy next door, William Sherman, played by Gordon MacRae. Marjorie has to learn how to dance and behave like a proper young lady. Unfortunately Mr. Winfield doesn't approve of William and some of his unconventional ideas about marriage and money, which causes the course of true love to run less smoothly than could be desired. Everything is resolved in time for a happy ending.

Cast

Doris Day as Marjorie Winfield
Gordon MacRae as William Sherman
Billy Gray as Wesley Winfield
Jack Smith as Hubert Wakely
Leon Ames as George Winfield
Rosemary DeCamp as Alice Winfield
Mary Wickes as Stella
Ellen Corby as Miss Mary Stevens

Songs

"On Moonlight Bay"
"Cuddle Up a Little Closer"
"Till We Meet Again"
"Tell Me"
"I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles"
"Christmas Story"
"Till We Meet Again"
"Love Ya"
"It's a Long Way to Tipperary"
"Pack Up Your Troubles"

Accolades

The film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists:

2006: AFI's Greatest Movie Musicals – Nominated^[2]

References

↑ 'The Top Box Office Hits of 1951', Variety, January 2, 1952
↑ "AFI's Greatest Movie Musicals Nominees" (PDF). Retrieved 2016-08-13.

External links

Wikiquote has quotations related to: On Moonlight Bay

On Moonlight Bay at the Internet Movie Database
On Moonlight Bay at AllMovie
On Moonlight Bay at the TCM Movie Database
On Moonlight Bay at the American Film Institute Catalog
Article at DorisDay.net

Films directed by Roy Del Ruth

The Cat's Meow (1924)
Three Weeks in Paris (1925)
Hogan's Alley (1925)
The Man Upstairs (1926)
The Little Irish Girl (1926)
Footloose Widows (1926)
Across the Pacific (1926)
The First Auto (1927)
If I Were Single (1927)
Ham and Eggs at the Front (1927)
Powder My Back (1928)
Conquest (1928)
Five and Ten Cent Annie (1928)
The Terror (1928)
Beware of Bachelors (1928)
The Desert Song (1929)
The Hottentot (1929)
Gold Diggers of Broadway (1929)
The Aviator (1929)
Hold Everything (1930)
The Second Floor Mystery (1930)
Three Faces East (1930)
The Life of the Party (1930)
Divorce Among Friends (1930)
My Past (1931)
The Maltese Falcon (1931)
Side Show (1931)
Blonde Crazy (1931)
Taxi! (1932)
Winner Take All (1932)
Blessed Event (1932)
Beauty and the Boss (1932)
The Mind Reader (1933)
Employees' Entrance (1933)
Captured! (1933)
Bureau of Missing Persons (1933)
Lady Killer (1933)
Upper World (1934)
Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back (1934)
Kid Millions (1934)
Broadway Melody of 1936 (1935)
Folies Bergère de Paris (1935)
Thanks a Million (1935)
Private Number (1936)
It Had to Happen (1936)
Born to Dance (1936)
On the Avenue (1937)
Broadway Melody of 1938 (1937)
Tail Spin (1939)
The Star Maker (1939)
Here I Am a Stranger (1939)
He Married His Wife (1940)
Topper Returns (1941)
The Chocolate Soldier (1941)
Maisie Gets Her Man (1942)
DuBarry Was a Lady (1943)
Broadway Rhythm (1944)
Barbary Coast Gent (1944)
It Happened on Fifth Avenue (1947)
The Babe Ruth Story (1948)
Red Light (1949)
Always Leave Them Laughing (1949)
The West Point Story (1950)
On Moonlight Bay (1951)
Starlift (1951)
About Face (1952)
Stop, You're Killing Me (1952)
Three Sailors and a Girl (1953)
Phantom of the Rue Morgue (1954)
The Alligator People (1959)
Why Must I Die? (1960)

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