On Moonlight Bay

Booth 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 is a strictly secondary part herein. The emphasis ...more

A pleasant little slice of turn-of-the-20th-century-themed Americana, On Moonlight Bay is less concerned with telling its slight story than with recreating a vanished American innocence that may very well never have existed exactly the way it is portrayed in films such as this. Moonlight is in the tradition of Meet Me in St. Louis, but it falls short of that film's classic status, largely because the latter film was more concerned with populating its Americana with specific characters and ...more