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During World War I, a teenage girl begins a romance with a college student, but his unconventional attitudes cause friction with her father.During World War I, a teenage girl begins a romance with a college student, but his unconventional attitudes cause friction with her father.During World War I, a teenage girl begins a romance with a college student, but his unconventional attitudes cause friction with her father.
Rosemary DeCamp
- Alice Winfield
- (as Rosemary De Camp)
Sig Arno
- Prof. Barson - Dance Instructor
- (uncredited)
Lois Austin
- Mother in Silent Movie
- (uncredited)
Hal Bell
- Carnival Patron
- (uncredited)
- …
Chet Brandenburg
- Train Conductor
- (uncredited)
Tex Brodus
- Soldier
- (uncredited)
Joe Brooks
- Carnival Patron
- (uncredited)
Morgan Brown
- Graduation Spectator
- (uncredited)
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Did you know
- TriviaThis film, its sequel By the Light of the Silvery Moon and Calamity Jane are among Doris Day's personal favorites of her own films. Interestingly, in all three, she plays tom-boyish characters who blossom into "might perty" young ladies.
- GoofsMarjorie first hugs Bill at the dance and the powder bursts all over her chest. In the next instant as they begin to dance Marjorie's front is clear of powder.
- Quotes
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.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Biography: Doris Day: It's Magic (1998)
- SoundtracksMoonlight Bay
(uncredited)
Music by Percy Wenrich
Lyrics by Edward Madden
Sung by an off-screen chorus during the opening credits
Also performed by Doris Day, Gordon MacRae and Chorus
Also performed by Gordon MacRae and Chorus
Also performed by Jack Smith and Chorus
Featured review
Unalloyed delight
Though it doesn't match the captivating staging of Vincente Minnelli's Meet Me in St Louis as a nostalgic period musical, both this charmer and its sequel By the Light of the Silvery Moon, based on Booth Tarkington's delightful Penrod stories, are very much in the same mold as the Minnelli classic; both films provide ideal vehicles for the multi-talented Doris Day, seen here at her most fetchingly tomboyish with her frequent on-screen partner at the time, Gordon MacRae. Their combined vocal talents bring genuine class to the turn of the (last) century tunes, providing a veritable cornucopia of some of the era's most recognizable standards. The pair create an easy chemistry mercifully free of the self-conscious projection so prevalent in many contemporary "feel-good" movies. Billy Gray, as Day's younger brother in his pre-Father Knows Best days was a likable and unspoiled child performer, who brought terrific comic timing in the delivery of his misplaced energies. Mary Wickes as the no-nonsense maid who acts as a kind of chorus to the action, is another notable scene-stealer, in a film which like so many of the early Doris Day musicals leaves this viewer with a warm glow.
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- May 30, 2006
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- Runtime1 hour 35 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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