<P> By the Light of the Silvery Moon is a 1953 musical film . It is the sequel to On Moonlight Bay . Like its predecessor, the movie is based loosely on the Penrod stories by Booth Tarkington . </P> <P> By the Light of the Silvery Moon relates the further adventures of the Winfield family in small town Indiana as daughter Marjorie Winfield's (Doris Day) boyfriend, William Sherman (Gordon MacRae), returns from the Army after World War I. Bill and Marjorie's on - again, off - again romance provides the backdrop for other family crises, caused mainly by son Wesley's (Billy Gray) wild imagination . </P> <Ul> <Li> Doris Day as Marjorie Winfield </Li> <Li> Gordon MacRae as William' Bill' Sherman </Li> <Li> Billy Gray as Wesley Winfield </Li> <Li> Leon Ames as George Winfield </Li> <Li> Rosemary DeCamp as Alice Winfield </Li> <Li> Mary Wickes as Stella </Li> <Li> Russell Arms as Chester Finley </Li> <Li> Maria Palmer as Renee LaRue </Li> <Li> Howard Wendell as John H. Harris </Li> <Li> Walter' PeeWee' Flannery as Ronald' PeeWee' Harris (as Walter Flannery) </Li> </Ul> <Li> Doris Day as Marjorie Winfield </Li>

Cast of the movie by the light of the silvery moon