Shine on Harvest Moon

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.

When this film was made, "ghost singers" did not get screen credit for dubbing: Ms. Sheridan's singing voice was that of my (deceased) mother-in-law, Lynn Martin. (Incidentally, Lynn Martin was also the voice of Rita Hayworth in "Gilda" !!) We were delighted to catch "Shine on Harvest Moon" on 7/24/2000 on Turner Classic Movies: now we at last have a wonderful copy of my wife's mother's talented voice!

Ann Sheridan and Dennis Morgan, as singing duo Nora Bayes and Jack Norworth, are wonderful portraying the Broadway stars who had to struggle just to perform together.

The beautiful Ann Sheridan does a fine job portraying a women who loves her partner but is willing to make a sacrifice for what she believes will help his career.

Kudos to the production crew for a visually enjoyable movie. Add in a few good musical numbers and you have a fun, uplifting movie with an occasional bittersweet moment thrown in for good measure.

And, with all due respect to Lynn Martin, who did the vocals for Ann Sheridan, I personally would like to have heard Ann Sheridan sing in this movie. Perhaps a special edition will surface one day for Shine On, Harvest Moon.

My main reason for watching the movie was Ann Sheridan. I loved watching her on the big screen. The song Jack Carson sang to Marie Wilson eked me too. Did not like it. It also was worth watching for the period clothes. All in All, Not Bad. It was also an education on the way Music was sold then. Something like In the Good old Summertime with Judy Garland.Marie Wilson really played a Great part as she was very Intelligent. She was really Typecast most of the time. I believe she played same type of Character on the Radio too. The Color was a Great idea. I think all Musicals should be in Color,especially 42Nd st. Even Dennis Morgan clothes looked better in Color.

It's 1905. Nora Bayes (Ann Sheridan) notices that single gal song acts aren't working anymore. It's either singing girl groups or couple acts. She tries to recruit her friend Jack Norworth (Dennis Morgan) for a couple act. He dismisses her at first. Eventually, he accepts her proposal. Their friend is magician, The Great Georgetti (Jack Carson).

This is a biopic of vaudevillian couple Nora Bayes and Jack Norworth. They would 'write' the popular 1900's song "Shine On, Harvest Moon". I don't know any of these songs. I don't know these performers. I doubt that they actually wrote the songs. They definitely did not come up with it while riding a carriage in the moonlight. I cannot comment on any other inaccuracies or even the time period. The music is not necessarily my taste, but I can't find any fault in it. The romantic chemistry is fine. They need a meet-cute, but they do have some heat. The story isn't much after the sleazy club owner early on. There is a fun bit with a magic act. I wouldn't mind a magician try that in his act for real. Margie is a fun dummy. They have the most memorable song "So Dumb but So Beautiful". Maybe they should make a movie about them.