I wouldn't call this a musical, but it is certainly a great comedy drama. The main reason I wanted to see this is obviously the enchanting Doris Day as Marjorie 'Marjie' Winfield. Basically she met love interest William 'Bill' Sherman (Gordon MacRae) after only just moving into a house in the small town of Indiana, and they obviously got closer in moments on Moonlight Bay. It is the nice love story almost ruined by inconvenience, including Bill joining the First World War, but more prominently, Marjie's naughty brother Wesley (Billy Gray) causing trouble, arguments and almost no happy endings and dysfunction. Also starring Jack Smith as the annoying piano playing and singing Hubert Wakely, Leon Ames as Banker George 'Father' Winfield (Mr. Winfield), Rosemary DeCamp as Alice 'Mother' Winfield (Mrs. Winfield), Mary Wickes as Stella (Winfields' cook and housekeeper) and Ellen Corby as Miss Mary Stevens (Wesley's schoolteacher). This is where Daffy Duck and Porky Pig (and other Looney Tunes characters) picked up the song. A sequel, By the Light of the Silvery Moon, followed two years later. Doris Day was number 84 on The 100 Greatest Movie Stars. Good!
Review of On Moonlight Bay
