On Moonlight Bay (1951) |
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Other InformationPlot SummaryBooth Tarkington`s Alice Adams, coupled with his Penrod stories, were incorporated in the script of the 1951 Warner Bros. musical On Moonlight Bay. The role of the incorrigible Penrod is played by future Father Knows Best regular Billy Gray, but his ... TaglinePut on your straw boater and cuddle up a little closer. A happy screenful of sun-kissed melody and kiss-by-moonlight romance. With those moonlight bay-bees and bay-eautiful songs! The lovin`est musical in many a moon! Related MoviesBy the Light of the Silvery Moon [Followed by] DiscographySinglesTill We Meet Again Every Little Movement (Has a Meaning All Its Own) Merry Christmas All Hark! The Herald Angels Sing The Turkey Trot Cuddle Up A Little Closer Love Ya Tell Me Moonlight Bay Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit Bag and Smile, Smile, Smile! I`m Forever Blowing Bubbles |
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Trivia and QuotesQuotes Wesley Winfield: Gee, it must be tough being a girl.
Mr. Winfield: Marjorie`s young and very inexperienced. All she knows about men is their batting averages.
Stella: In case you`re interested, this one`s batting a thousand.
Marjorie `Marjie` Winfield: Won`t you come in and have a nice cool glass of buttermilk?
William `Bill` Sherman: Yeah. I guess I`d like that. Marjorie?
Marjorie `Marjie` Winfield: Yes, William?
William `Bill` Sherman: In all fairness, I`ve got to tell you something.
Marjorie `Marjie` Winfield: What?
William `Bill` Sherman: I don`t believe in marriage.
Marjorie `Marjie` Winfield: But I just asked you in for some buttermilk.
William `Bill` Sherman: Well, I... I didn`t want to drink it under false pretences.
Marjorie `Marjie` Winfield: Well, my goodness. Maybe, I don`t believe in marriage, either.
Wesley Winfield: Marjorie`s old petticoat! You`ve got me in Marjorie`s old petticoat!
Alice `Mother` Winfield: Try not to walk like a first base man.
William `Bill` Sherman: The University of Indiana. I`m a senior.
Marjorie `Marjie` Winfield: Oh, it must be wonderful.
William `Bill` Sherman: It`s a farce. All the fellas` are interested in is playing football and baseball, and women. Women and more women. Can you think of a bigger waste of time?
Marjorie `Marjie` Winfield: What`s wrong with baseball?
William `Bill` Sherman: Baseball! It`s the national insanity. At a time like this when, when civilization is crumbling beneath our feet, our generation is playing baseball, and singing songs like...
Chorus: [sings in the background] We were sailing along / On Moonlight Bay
William `Bill` Sherman: We were sailing along, on Moonlight Bay. Isn`t that silly?
Marjorie `Marjie` Winfield: I rather liked it.
William `Bill` Sherman: Have you heard the rest of it?
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William `Bill` Sherman: You have stolen her heart / Now, don`t go away. As we sang love`s old sweet song on Moonlight Bay.
[back to speaking]
William `Bill` Sherman: That musta been written by a man with a glass of beer in one hand and a rhyming dictionary in the other.
Marjorie `Marjie` Winfield: Oh, I think it`s beautiful.
Mr. Winfield: Wesley, you stay out of the living room. Your sister is entertaining a caller.
Wesley Winfield: Is he telling her "Her eyes are like the blue stars in Heaven?"
Mr. Winfield: Now, where did you pick that up?
Wesley Winfield: Ah, I`ve been around.
Mr. Winfield: Well, just the same, you stay out of the living room.
Aunt Martha Robertson: No man believes in marriage... until a woman traps him into it!
Trivia This movie proved to be so popular that the studio immediately filmed By the Light of the Silvery Moon (1953) which is a direct sequel with all the actors playing the same characters. This was very unusual at the time. | ||
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