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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 |
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Running time
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101 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Box office | $2,125,000 (US) |
By the Light of the Silvery Moon is a 1953 musical film. It is the sequel to On Moonlight Bay. Like its predecessor, the movie is based loosely on the Penrod stories by Booth Tarkington.
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.