1h 41min | Comedy, Family, Musical | 26 March 1953 | Color
Director: David Butler
Stars: Doris Day, Gordon MacRae, Leon Ames, Rosemary DeCamp, Billy Gray, Mary Wickes.
Donald Saddler ... choreographer
Watched online, good print. (Waiting for replacement discs to arrive.)
There was a brief show within the film, and perhaps the social ice skating also needed a choreographer?
9 songs performed per Soundtracks; all by either DD or GM or both.
Followup to On Moonlight Bay (1951), with the same family members and beau for DD, although the 3rd wheel was changed (both character name and actor, but he's similar enough we might not notice). I'm very glad the "series" stops here. This is like Warner trying to create a cross between Meet Me in St. Louis ('45) and the Andy Hardy films. Billy Gray is heavily emphasized in both Warner films, and Leon Ames was the father in MMiSL as well as here.
This is pleasant fluff at best. Always nice to hear DD sing, but this is all pre-jazz music, which is not my stuff.
Warner, dir. Butler; 6
