Shine on Harvest Moon (1944)Biographical movie about the early 20th century Broadway stars Nora Bayes and Jack Norworth. Director:David Butler |
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Title: Shine on Harvest Moon (1944)
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Nora Bayes
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Dennis Morgan | ... |
Jack Norworth
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The Great Georgetti
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Irene Manning | ... |
Blanche Mallory
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Poppa Carl
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Marie Wilson | ... |
Margie
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Robert Shayne | ... |
Dan Costello
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Police Sergeant
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Biographical movie about the early 20th century Broadway stars Nora Bayes and Jack Norworth.
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EnglishRelease Date:
8 April 1944 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Melodia do Amor See more »Filming Locations:
Columbia/Warner Bros. Ranch - 411 North Hollywood Way, Burbank, California, USA See more »Company Credits
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Mono (RCA Sound System)Aspect Ratio:
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(1944)
Music by M.K. Jerome
Lyrics by Kim Gannon
Sung by Jack Carson and Marie Wilson at Romero's and danced by The Ashburns
Reprised by them and chorus in the finale and danced by The Four Step Brothers
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Originally planned to be filmed entirely in Technicolor. See more »Goofs
During the Harvest Moon number near the end, the stage has the horse and carriage going left to right and then larger going right to left, creating the illusion of the horse and carriage moving down a winding road closer toward the audience. However, the horse and carriage then moving left to right again closer to the audience started before the previous right to left move had cleared the stage and for an instant both can be seen. See more »Quotes
Nora Bayes: [sings] Shine on, shine on, Harvest Moon, up in the sky / I ain't had no loving since January, February, March, April, May, June or July / Snow time, ain't no time to stay outdoors and spoon / So, shine on, shine on, Harvest Moon, for me and my pal.See more »
Soundtracks
"So Dumb But So Beautiful"(1944)
Music by M.K. Jerome
Lyrics by Kim Gannon
Sung by Jack Carson and Marie Wilson at Romero's and danced by The Ashburns
Reprised by them and chorus in the finale and danced by The Four Step Brothers
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Too bad the entire film wasn't photographed in Technicolor. The story is very fictionalized, as were all Hollywood musical biographies. Would it be a spoiler to mention that historically Bayes and Norworth didn't live happily ever after? Norworth was #3 of Bayes's five husbands.
Interesting to note that in the earlier Warner's musical "Yankee Doodle Dandy", that Bayes is portrayed as a "heavy", taking Mary Cohan's song away from her.
Insofar as voice dubbing is concerned, all actors are ultimately dubbed, whether with their own singing voice or someone else's. Nobody sings "live" on camera. Not much different than today's music videos where the performer is only doing a lip-sync to the recording (and you thought they had all those electronic instruments and back-up singers hidden in the bushes, right?).
This film is still enjoyable for the music and the performances of the actors. I think it's well worth the time to view it.