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On Moonlight Bay

CastDoris Day, Gordon MacRae, Jack Smith
Year released1951
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Banker George Wadsworth Winfield tells his wife Alice, "... the kind of a house we’ve always dreamed of." 
Alice: ”You’ve always dreamed of.” 
Referring to young neighbor Jim Sherman: ”Well he makes me nervous.” 
Alice: ”George, don’t be so obstinate...” 
George, referring to Jim: ”That youngster is certainly curious...” 
George tells his son Wesley: ”... be friendly.” (0:03)

College student William "Bill" Sherman beats Wesley's older sister Marjorie. (0:09)

Bill tells Marjie, "... Baseball, It’s the national insanity..." (0:13)

Carnival barker: “... It’s an honest game." 
”It’s an honest game.” 
”It is an honest game.” (0:16)

George tells Bill, "... then it must be medicine..." (0:25)

Wesley reads a letter written by Marjie to the class: "... A tremor thrills my being..." 
Teacher Miss Mary Stevens: ”... stop that stammering...” 
Stevens: ”... You will sit there until no more tremors...” (0:35)

Wesley, referring to dog Max: "Why worry about him. He’s smarter than we are." (0:41)

Housekeeper Stella asks Alice, "Halo? How about a straight jacket?" (0:51)

Wesley watches “THE CURSE OF DRINK” in a theater. 
Intertitle: ”... a drunken beast...” 
Intertitle: ”... Beat me...”
Intertitle: “... he is beating his only daughter.” (0:51)

Wesley dreams he can fly. (0:55)

Stevens tells Wesley, "... you father... charming man." 
Wesley: ”... he was a good, kind husband...” 
Referring to Marjie: ”... he’d been hittin’ her with his cane.” 
”... he’d been a drunkard and whipped his wife and daughter.” 
Stevens: ”... you brave little boy...” (0:57)

Marjie tells Alice, referring to Stevens, "... she’s just very emotional..." 
Stella: ”Crazy as a bedbug.” (1:00)

Bill: "Don’t you worry, Mrs. Winfield..." 
Referring to George: ”... that drunken beast.” 
”... lying here in a drunken stupor. I’ll sober him up.” 
Marjie: ”Have you gone crazy?” 
Alice: ”Are you out of your mind?” 
George: “Get this madman out of this house.” 
Bill tells Marjie, ”... was beating you.” (1:03)

Bill tells Marjie, "I only make a fool of myself once a night." (1:05)

Bill: "... I think it’s a wise thing..." 
”... not dreamers in an ivory tower...” 
”... and a shock to some... I am very proud...” (1:10)

Another soldier tells Joe, "... the dream I just had." (1:16)

Aunt Martha Robertson, "Well, George feels the boy isn’t sincere..." (1:20)

Alice tells Wesley, ”... Don’ worry about it.” (1:24)

George tells Alice, "... Wesley’s behaving like..." 
Bill tells Marjie, ”... Let’s be sensible about this...” 
Marjie: ”But how can you be sensible...?” (1:25)

Marjie tells Bill, "Oh, I know I’m supposed to be brave..." (1:27)

Alice tells George, "... William is just more honest than most." (1:30)

George tells Wesley, "... how proud I was of you..." (1:31)

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