This is definitely one of the best films to watch any day of the week, but particularly at the weekend to just chill out.
Really anything with Doris Day (except Midnight Lace, Caprice, Julie, Love Me or Leave, or Young at Heart).
I especially enjoyed her pairings with Gordon MacRae.
Classic movies to be enjoyed over and over again.
Its a great film to watch any afternoon, i love DD's singing and she & Gordon MacCrae had great on screen chemistry. Enjoyed on Mooonlight Bay too. Wish they'd put these two films on dvd.
shareYes, I agree that Doris & Gordon make a great singing and acting team. They should have done more together!!!
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i caught this on tv a few months back and i absolutely loved it. i've been desperately searching for it on dvd ever since as i'd love to see it again. have seen the doris day boxset in hmv, virgin etc but it's not even in any of them :( can't wait til the powers that be eventually bring it out on dvd.
shareI love this movie! I love Doris Day! I love the small town feel, the way Marjorie is a tom-boy in the time period. I love Wesley, I love the corny parents, I love Stella. I just totally agree, a very much Sunday afternoon movie. On Moonlight Bay was good too, but I prefer the sequel.
shareI love all the Doris Day/Gordon MacRae pairings ... they were sweet together! Their films may not have won any awards, but they sure were entertaining! Love DD's singing ... she was truly one of the greats!
i love this movie
shareI love it and its "prequel" , which is titled "On Moonlight Bay." These movies are loosely based on the Penrod stories by Booth Tarkington. They are great Sunday afternoon movies, or Friday night movies for that matter! When you want to unwind after a stressful day, watch one or both.
shareAs taylorje mentions, these two films "On Moonlight Bay" & "By The Light Of The Silvery Moon" are loosely based upon Booth Tarkington's "Penrod" stories, which were set in the time when the stable became a garage. They are from the point of view of Wesley Winified (Billy Gray) in the movies, Penrod Schofield in Tarkington's stories, but most of the situations from these film versions appear somewhere in the books.
The first two of the three books are now available for free download at Project Gutenberg in HTML, EPUB, Kindle & Plain Text Formats.
Penrod - Booth Tarkingtonin
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/402
Penrod and Sam - Booth Tarkington
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1158
I loved it - and saw only once ..... when it was launched in the 50's! I have never seen it again
shareI've just found it on http://www.hmv.co.uk/hmvweb/displayProductDetails.do?ctx=280;-1;-1;-1&sku=486082
shareO yeah--me and my wife watch quite often. It is a very good movie and they don't make movie.
Have a good night,
Lester A. Vineyard
I watch "on Moonlight Bay" and "By the light of the silvery moon" when I want to leave my troubles of this modern world for a couple hours, they never fail to cheer me up, I watch them with my kids to remind them that there was a time (even though this is only a dramatization and not typical of that era either, but still showed;
in my opinion the way America was Good and Safe and made sense) I feel sorry Kids these days don't care or recall the good old days, I hate progress!! ;)
Have yourself a nice movie marathon with the above movies and add the original "Cheaper by the dozen" and "Belles on their toes" for a lovely afternoon of nostalgia.
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OMB and BTLOTSM are the kind of films the Disney channel used to air when they were all about quality programming. That's how I discovered Oklahoma! and My Fair Lasy, Bob and Bing's road movies, The Parent Trap, Summer Magic, Pollyanna, and The Misadventures of Merlin Jones. Imagine my surprise when there's Judge Holmsby in the opening scene of OMB!
I think we're just gonna have to be secretly in love with each other and leave it at that.
doris is my favourite singer and actress and this is my favourite doris film along with moonlight bay and calamity jANE. DORIS AND GORDON WERE SUCH A WONDERFUL TEAM I WISH LIFE WAS LIKE THOSE MOVIES IN REAL LIFE AS YOU CAN TELL I'M A BIG FAN OF DORIS SHE IS MY IDOL. I'VE LOVED AND ADORED HER ALL MY LIFE SINCE I WAS A LITTLE GIRL AND I'M 17 NOW CHECK MY USERNAME DORISDAYNO1
shareSure do!
In fact IMO, this sequel was even better than On Moonlight Bay.