On Moonlight Bay (1951)

Gordon MacRae: William Sherman

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Quotes 

• William 'Bill' Sherman : The University of Indiana. I'm a senior.

  Marjorie 'Marjie' Winfield : Oh, it must be wonderful.

  William 'Bill' Sherman : It's a farce. All the fellas are interested in is playing football and baseball, and women. Women and more women. Can you think of a bigger waste of time?

  Marjorie 'Marjie' Winfield : What's wrong with baseball?

  William 'Bill' Sherman : Baseball! It's the national insanity. At a time like this when, when civilization is crumbling beneath our feet, our generation is playing baseball, and singing songs like...

  Chorus : [sings in the background]  We were sailing along / On Moonlight Bay

  William 'Bill' Sherman : We were sailing along, on Moonlight Bay. Isn't that silly?

  Marjorie 'Marjie' Winfield : I rather liked it.

  William 'Bill' Sherman : Have you heard the rest of it?

  [sings] 

  William 'Bill' Sherman : You have stolen her heart / Now, don't go away. As we sang love's old sweet song on Moonlight Bay.

  [back to speaking] 

  William 'Bill' Sherman : That musta been written by a man with a glass of beer in one hand and a rhyming dictionary in the other.

  Marjorie 'Marjie' Winfield : Oh, I think it's beautiful.

• Marjorie 'Marjie' Winfield : Won't you come in and have a nice cool glass of buttermilk?

  William 'Bill' Sherman : Yeah. I guess I'd like that. Marjorie?

  Marjorie 'Marjie' Winfield : Yes, William?

  William 'Bill' Sherman : In all fairness, I've got to tell you something.

  Marjorie 'Marjie' Winfield : What?

  William 'Bill' Sherman : I don't believe in marriage.

  Marjorie 'Marjie' Winfield : But I just asked you in for some buttermilk.

  William 'Bill' Sherman : Well, I... I didn't want to drink it under false pretences.

  Marjorie 'Marjie' Winfield : Well, my goodness. Maybe, I don't believe in marriage, either.

• [William storms out of Marjorie's house after a misunderstanding with her family] 

  Marjorie 'Marjie' Winfield : Won't you please come back?

  William 'Bill' Sherman : I only make a fool of myself once a night.

• [the electricity goes off in Marjorie's house; she lights a match before going to walk Bill to the door] 

  William 'Bill' Sherman : Marjorie? I'd like to call on you again.

  Marjorie 'Marjie' Winfield : [cheerily]  When?

  William 'Bill' Sherman : Would, uh, tomorrow morning be too soon?

  Marjorie 'Marjie' Winfield : Oh, no!

  [the match goes out and they kiss for the first time in the dark] 

• William 'Bill' Sherman : Think, we might never have met if you hadn't taken a shot at me.

  Marjorie 'Marjie' Winfield : Oh, don't joke about that! Why, I might've killed you!

  William 'Bill' Sherman : Well, what's one life more or less when all of Europe is bathed in blood?

• William 'Bill' Sherman : [sings]  Pack up your troubles in your old kit bag, and smile, smile, smile!

• William 'Bill' Sherman : [sings]  Cuddle up a little closer, lovey mine.

• Marjorie 'Marjie' Winfield , William 'Bill' Sherman : [sings]  So wait and pray each night for me, till we meet again.

• Marjorie 'Marjie' Winfield , William 'Bill' Sherman : [sings]  We were sailing along / On Moonlight Bay / We could hear the voices ringing / They seemed to say.

  Chorus : [sings]  Wish we could stay.

  Marjorie 'Marjie' Winfield , William 'Bill' Sherman : [sings]  You have stolen her heart / Now, don't go away.

  Chorus : [sings]  Nobody here but you and me.

  Marjorie 'Marjie' Winfield , William 'Bill' Sherman : [sings]  As we sang love's old sweet song on Moonlight Bay.