Shine on Harvest Moon

1944
Approved
1h 52m

IMDb RATING

6.3/10

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Ann Sheridan in Shine on Harvest Moon (1944)

Biographical movie about the early 20th century Broadway stars Nora Bayes and Jack Norworth.

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Biographical movie about the early 20th century Broadway stars Nora Bayes and Jack Norworth.Biographical movie about the early 20th century Broadway stars Nora Bayes and Jack Norworth.Biographical movie about the early 20th century Broadway stars Nora Bayes and Jack Norworth.

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IMDb RATING

6.3/10

463

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Dance Team
(uncredited)

Don Barclay

Coach Driver
(uncredited)

Brooks Benedict

Vaudevillian Backstage
(uncredited)

John Berkes

Tramp Ambassador in "My Own United States" Number
(uncredited)

Ted Billings

Man in Audience
(uncredited)

Billy Bletcher

Vaudevillian
(uncredited)

Jack Boyle

Vaudevillian
(uncredited)

Betty Bryson

Soubrette in "My Own United States" Number
(uncredited)

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Trivia
The final Harvest Moon number was shot in Technicolor while the rest of the film was black/white. This was because of shortages of material needed for color stock due to the war. Studios used their limited color stock for their top films. 16mm television prints were in B&W and the Technicolor sequence was not restored until the 1980s.

Goofs
Nora Bayes and Jack Norworth debuted "Shine On, Harvest Moon" in Florenz Ziegfeld's Follies of 1908, yet the theater marquee reads Ziegfeld Revue - Follies Of 1907.

Quotes
[Nora has just kissed Jack]
Jack Norworth: You didn't have to do that.
Nora Bayes: I know. That's why I did it.

Connections
Featured in Let's Sing a Song About the Moonlight (1948)

Soundtracks
Shine On, Harvest Moon
(1908) (uncredited)
Music by Nora Bayes
Lyrics by Jack Norworth
Played during the opening credits and often as background music
Sung by an off-screen chorus in the opening scene, Dennis Morgan and Ann Sheridan (dubbed by Lynn Martin)
Reprised by them with a chorus at the burlesque theater

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Featured review

7/10

Pleasant For Sheridan or Morgan Fans

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.