On Moonlight Bay

starring: Doris Day, Gordon MacRae, Billy Gray, Jack Smith (III), Leon Ames
directed by: Roy Del Ruth

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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0085391137245
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: April 10, 2007
Running Time: 95 minutes
Sales Rank: 10450
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1951

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Description:
sical about a family that moves to a small Indiana town and their tomboy daughter who begins a romance with the neighbor across the street, who bears radically unconventional views on love and money.

Amazon.com:
America's love affair with clean-cut, tomboyish, freckle-faced Doris Day got a boost with On Moonlight Bay, a period piece from 1951. The film's masterstroke: put Doris in an old-timey musical full of small-town family values and vintage songs. Another inspiration: pair off Doris again with that chesty-voiced man's man and future Rodgers and Hammerstein stalwart, Gordon MacRae (they'd already made Tea for Two and The West Point Story). The story is drawn from Booth Tarkington's Penrod tales, although the movie is also under the sway of Meet Me in St. Louis. The WWI-era family is anchored by parents Leon Ames (the pop from St. Louis) and Rosemary De Camp, with echt-Fifties boy Billy Gray (later of Father Knows Best) as Day's bratty younger brother. Mary Wickes, cinema's eternal sassy housekeeper, provides comic relief. So does radio crooner Jack Smith, who would later host You Asked for It on TV for many years, as Day's maladroit suitor (he's really funny--too bad Preston Sturges never got a hold of him). The material is so relentlessly wholesome you might have to pinch yourself that anybody really believed it, but audiences sure wanted to. The film's popularity prompted a sequel, By the Light of the Silvery Moon, with most of the cast intact. --Robert Horton

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- On Moonlight Bay
On Moonlight Bay

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- VERY ANNOYED
THANK YOU FOR SENDING THIS FILM AND I WOULD BE EVEN MORE ELATED IF YOU HAVE THE CURTESY TO COME BACK ... Read More

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- Can there be any better than Doris Day
If your a Doris Day fan you will love this movie. It is entertaining, great songs and just fun to watch.

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- FAMILY VIEWING
THIS IS ANOTHER GREAT FAMILY MOVIE THAT GOES ALONG W/BY THE LIGHT OF THE SILVERY MOON(MCCRAY/DAY). GOOD STUFF! ... Read More

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- Great movie
We had originally seen By The Light of The Silvery Moon first and loved that. When I found out that that was a ... Read More

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