On Moonlight Bay Movie Review 1951

Set in small-town Indiana in 1917 with Day as the tomboyish Marjorie who falls for college man MacRae. Her father (Ames) doesn't approve but the trouble really begins when Marjorie's younger brother gets into trouble at school. The incorrigible Wesley (Gray) blames everything on dear old dad and MacRae feels he must come to Marjorie's rescue! Gray steals the movie as the bratty brother--otherwise its business as usual. Based on Booth Tarkington's "Penrod" stories and followed by "By the Light of the Silvery Moon."

Distribution

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Available on VHS
Running time 95 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Musicals, Family Ties, Period Piece: 1910s, Adapted from a Story

Screenplay

Melville Shavelson, Jack Rose

Cast

Doris Day, Gordon MacRae, Leon Ames, Billy Gray, Rosemary DeCamp, Mary Wickes, Ellen Corby, Esther Dale

Director

Roy Del Ruth

Music

Max Steiner

Producer

William Jacobs, Warner Bros.