By the Light of the Silvery Moon ( film ) - Wikipedia By the Light of the Silvery Moon ( film ) By the Light of the Silvery Moon Theatrical release poster 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 Release date March 26, 1953 ( 1953 - 03 - 26 ) Running time 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. Contents 1 Plot 2 Primary Cast 3 References 4 External links Plot 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. Primary Cast Doris Day as Marjorie Winfield Gordon MacRae as William ' Bill ' Sherman Billy Gray as Wesley Winfield Leon Ames as George Winfield Rosemary DeCamp as Alice Winfield Mary Wickes as Stella Russell Arms as Chester Finley Maria Palmer as Renee LaRue Howard Wendell as John H. Harris Walter ' PeeWee ' Flannery as Ronald ' PeeWee ' Harris ( as Walter Flannery ) References Jump up ^ ' The Top Box Office Hits of 1953 ', Variety, January 13, 1954 Jump up ^ Variety film review ; March 25, 1953, page 6. Jump up ^ Harrison 's Reports film review ; March 28, 1953, page 50. External links By the Light of the Silvery Moon on IMDb By the Light of the Silvery Moon at Rotten Tomatoes By the Light of the Silvery Moon at the TCM Movie Database By the Light of the Silvery Moon at AllMovie By the Light of the Silvery Moon at the American Film Institute Catalog Article at DorisDay.net Films directed by David Butler News Parade ( 1928 ) Fox Movietone Follies of 1929 ( 1929 ) Chasing Through Europe ( 1929 ) High Society Blues ( 1930 ) Just Imagine ( 1930 ) A Connecticut Yankee ( 1931 ) Delicious ( 1931 ) Business and Pleasure ( 1932 ) Hold Me Tight ( 1933 ) My Weakness ( 1933 ) Bottoms Up ( 1934 ) Handy Andy ( 1934 ) Have a Heart ( 1934 ) Bright Eyes ( 1934 ) The Little Colonel ( 1935 ) Doubting Thomas ( 1935 ) The Littlest Rebel ( 1935 ) Captain January ( 1936 ) White Fang ( 1936 ) Pigskin Parade ( 1936 ) Ali Baba Goes to Town ( 1937 ) You 're a Sweetheart ( 1937 ) Kentucky Moonshine ( 1938 ) Straight, Place and Show ( 1938 ) Kentucky ( 1938 ) East Side of Heaven ( 1939 ) That 's Right -- You 're Wrong ( 1939 ) If I Had My Way ( 1940 ) You 'll Find Out ( 1940 ) Caught in the Draft ( 1941 ) Playmates ( 1941 ) Road to Morocco ( 1942 ) They Got Me Covered ( 1943 ) Thank Your Lucky Stars ( 1943 ) Shine On, Harvest Moon ( 1944 ) The Princess and the Pirate ( 1944 ) San Antonio ( 1945 ) Two Guys from Milwaukee ( 1946 ) The Time, the Place and the Girl ( 1946 ) My Wild Irish Rose ( 1947 ) Two Guys from Texas ( 1948 ) John Loves Mary ( 1949 ) Look for the Silver Lining ( 1949 ) It 's a Great Feeling ( 1949 ) The Story of Seabiscuit ( 1949 ) The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady ( 1950 ) Tea for Two ( 1950 ) Lullaby of Broadway ( 1951 ) Painting the Clouds with Sunshine ( 1951 ) Where 's Charley ? ( 1952 ) April in Paris ( 1952 ) By the Light of the Silvery Moon ( 1953 ) Calamity Jane ( 1953 ) The Command ( 1954 ) King Richard and the Crusaders ( 1954 ) Jump into Hell ( 1955 ) Glory ( 1956 ) The Girl He Left Behind ( 1956 ) The Right Approach ( 1961 ) C'mon, Let 's Live a Little ( 1967 ) This article about a musical film is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=By_the_Light_of_the_Silvery_Moon_(film)&oldid=777722550 '' Categories : 1953 films English - language films 1950s musical films American films Films directed by David Butler Films set in Indiana Films set in the 1910s Warner Bros. films Films based on works by Booth Tarkington Musical film stubs Hidden categories : Pages using infobox film with unknown parameters All stub articles Talk Contents About Wikipedia Deutsch Français Polski Edit links This page was last edited on 28 April 2017, at 21 : 12. About Wikipedia

Question: cast of the movie by the light of the silvery moon
Answer: Doris Day