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"By the Light of the Silvery Moon" or "By the Light of the Silv'ry Moon" is a popular love song. The music was written by Gus Edwards, and the lyrics by Edward Madden. The song was published in 1909 and first performed on stage by Lillian Lorraine in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1909. It was one of a series of moon-related Tin Pan Alley songs
A 1953 musical comedy film starring Doris Day and Gordon MacRae as a couple in post-WWI Indiana. The film features songs from the period, a love triangle, and a pet turkey named Wesley.
- David Butler
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By the Light of the Silvery Moon is a 1953 American musical film directed by David Butler and starring Doris Day and Gordon MacRae. As with the film's predecessor On Moonlight Bay, the film is based loosely on the Penrod stories by Booth Tarkington.
- $2,125,000 (US)
By the Light of the Silvery Moon Lyrics: By the light of the silvery moon / I want to spoon / To my honey, I'll croon love's tune / Honey moon, keep a-shinin' in June /...
