By the Light of the Silvery Moon

1953

Comedy / Family / Musical / Romance

2
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 81% · 1K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.0/10 10 2670 2.7K

small town indiana, usa musical

Director

David Butler Photo
David Butler

Top cast

Rosemary DeCamp Photo
Rosemary DeCamp as Alice Winfield
Merv Griffin Photo
Merv Griffin as Announcer at Pond
Fred Kelsey Photo
Fred Kelsey as Disapproving Man at Skating Pond
Howard Wendell Photo
Howard Wendell as John H. Harris
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939.74 MB
1280*934
English 2.0
NR
23.976 fps
1 hr 42 min
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1.7 GB
1480*1080
English 2.0
NR
23.976 fps
1 hr 42 min
Seeds ...

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by bkoganbing 8 / 10

"Your Silvery Dreams, Will Bring Love Beams"

On Moonlight Bay proved so popular with audiences looking for entertainment and tales of what they thought was a simpler era, that By The Light Of The Silvery Moon was almost demanded to be made. Repeating their roles from the previous Warner Brothers hit were Doris Day, Gordon MacRae, Billy Gray, Leon Ames, Rosemary DeCamp and the trenchant Mary Wickes as the indispensable maid of the Wingfield Family.The last film was set in 1916-1917 and ended with Gordon MacRae going off to World War I after graduating college with Doris Day promising to wait for him. The armistice has happened and its 1919 and the dough-boys are returning home, in MacRae's case to Indiana. Of course there are a few bumps in the road including Russell Arms who's been trying to score with Doris while Gordon's away. And a French actress who's taking a lease on a theater that banker Ames's employer has had title defaulted to. Through some dumb errors worthy of an Astaire-Rogers film everyone thinks Ames is stepping out with Maria Palmer playing the actress.No original songs were written for this film set in 1919. The songs were all in keeping with the period when the Roaring Twenties Jazz Age hadn't taken hold yet. The earliest copyrighted song from the score is Just One Girl which Gordon does with a nice little buck and wing thrown in. It's my favorite number from the film.If you liked On Moonlight Bay there is no reason you won't like By The Light Of The Silvery Moon. Doris and Gordon certainly made some beautiful music together.
Reviewed by Doylenf 6 / 10

Has the charm of an old-fashioned holiday card...

BY THE LIGHT OF THE SILVERY MOON is a continuation of "On Moonlight Bay", the previous flick featuring DORIS DAY and GORDON MacRAE as sweethearts during the early 1900s who get to croon some pretty wonderful songs of that period. It's strictly family stuff, nostalgic and as prettily pictured as a postcard of an Americana that never really existed except in Hollywood's imagination and Norman Rockwell paintings.The delightful supporting cast has LEON AMES (who was also Judy Garland's father in MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS), MARY WICKE (as the sharp-tongued housekeeper), ROSEMARY DeCAMP as the patient wife and RUSSELL ARMS as Doris' nerdy other love.The wholesome story (from a Booth Tarkington tale) has Doris' bratty brother letting his childish imagination running away from him when he suspects his father is having an affair with a French actress.The skating ring sequence closes the story on a happy note--and after a nice bunch of songs by Day and MacRae (including "Be My Little Baby Bumble-Bee", "If You Were the Only Girl in the World" and "By the Light of the Silvery Moon"), you'll feel yourself back in those innocent times wishing life could imitate the movies.
Reviewed by mark.waltz 7 / 10

The corn is as high as Doris Day's eye...

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