By the Light of the Silvery Moon (film)

By the Light of the Silvery Moon
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	David Butler
Produced by	William Jacobs
Written by	Booth Tarkington (Penrod stories)
Starring	Doris Day Gordon MacRae Leon Ames
Music by	Gus Edwards (By the Light of the Silvery Moon) Max Steiner (music adapted by)
Cinematography	Wilfred M. Cline (as Wilfrid M. Cline)
Edited by	Irene Morra
Distributed by	Warner Brothers
Release dates	March 26, 1953 (1953-03-26)
Running time	101 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	$2,125,000 (US)^[1]

By the Light of the Silvery Moon is a 1953 musical film.^[2]^[3] It is the sequel to On Moonlight Bay. Like its predecessor, the movie is based loosely on the Penrod stories by Booth Tarkington.

Plot

By the Light of the Silvery Moon relates the further adventures of the Winfield family in small town Indiana as daughter Marjorie Winfield's (Doris Day) boyfriend, William Sherman (Gordon MacRae), returns from the Army after World War I. Bill and Marjorie's on-again, off-again romance provides the backdrop for other family crises, caused mainly by son Wesley's (Billy Gray) wild imagination.

Primary Cast

Doris Day as Marjorie Winfield
Gordon MacRae as William 'Bill' Sherman
Billy Gray as Wesley Winfield
Leon Ames as George Winfield
Rosemary DeCamp as Alice Winfield
Mary Wickes as Stella
Russell Arms as Chester Finley
Maria Palmer as Renee LaRue
Howard Wendell as John H. Harris
Walter 'PeeWee' Flannery as Ronald 'PeeWee' Harris (as Walter Flannery)

References

↑ 'The Top Box Office Hits of 1953', Variety, January 13, 1954
↑ Variety film review; March 25, 1953, page 6.
↑ Harrison's Reports film review; March 28, 1953, page 50.

External links

Films directed by David Butler

News Parade (1928)
Fox Movietone Follies of 1929 (1929)
Chasing Through Europe (1929)
High Society Blues (1930)
Just Imagine (1930)
A Connecticut Yankee (1931)
Delicious (1931)
Business and Pleasure (1932)
Hold Me Tight (1933)
My Weakness (1933)
Bottoms Up (1934)
Handy Andy (1934)
Have a Heart (1934)
Bright Eyes (1934)
The Little Colonel (1935)
Doubting Thomas (1935)
The Littlest Rebel (1935)
Captain January (1936)
White Fang (1936)
Pigskin Parade (1936)
Ali Baba Goes to Town (1937)
You're a Sweetheart (1937)
Kentucky Moonshine (1938)
Straight, Place and Show (1938)
Kentucky (1938)
East Side of Heaven (1939)
That's Right—You're Wrong (1939)
If I Had My Way (1940)
You'll Find Out (1940)
Caught in the Draft (1941)
Playmates (1941)
Road to Morocco (1942)
They Got Me Covered (1943)
Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943)
Shine On, Harvest Moon (1944)
The Princess and the Pirate (1944)
San Antonio (1945)
Two Guys from Milwaukee (1946)
The Time, the Place and the Girl (1946)
My Wild Irish Rose (1947)
Two Guys from Texas (1948)
John Loves Mary (1949)
Look for the Silver Lining (1949)
It's a Great Feeling (1949)
The Story of Seabiscuit (1949)
The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady (1950)
Tea for Two (1950)
Lullaby of Broadway (1951)
Painting the Clouds with Sunshine (1951)
Where's Charley? (1952)
April in Paris (1952)
By the Light of the Silvery Moon (1953)
Calamity Jane (1953)
The Command (1954)
King Richard and the Crusaders (1954)
Jump into Hell (1955)
Glory (1956)
The Girl He Left Behind (1956)
The Right Approach (1961)
C'mon, Let's Live a Little (1967)

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