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.
Samuel Adams
- Audience Member
- (uncredited)
The Ashburns
- Dance Team
- (uncredited)
Don Barclay
- Coach Driver
- (uncredited)
Brooks Benedict
- Vaudevillian Backstage
- (uncredited)
Ted Billings
- Man in Audience
- (uncredited)
Billy Bletcher
- Vaudevillian
- (uncredited)
Jack Boyle
- Vaudevillian
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe 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.
- GoofsNora 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.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Let's Sing a Song About the Moonlight (1948)
- SoundtracksShine 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
Featured review
Offered as a biopic of Nora Bayes and Jack Norworth, this is stereotypical Hollywood nonsense about their bad luck, with a total of four songs written by the principals out of twenty-one. Ann Sheridan as Miss Bayes has her singing dubbed by Lynn Martin, and Dennis Morgan as Norworth presumably doing his own. Jack Carson and Marie Wilson pop up every quarter of an hour or so as a magician and his assistant, and Irene Manning yearns for Morgan and also sings some songs. The movie is in black and white until the final medley, and moves right along.
In reality Norworth was Bayes' second of five husbands, she prospered as a comic singer, and became the star of Ziegfeld's first two Follies; she walked out on the third and returned to vaudeville, while Norworth, after their divorce, carved out a very successful career as a Broadway performer. Miss Bayes died in 1928 at the age of 47; Norworth in 1959 at the age of 80, having had nothing to do with this movie but selling his name.
In reality Norworth was Bayes' second of five husbands, she prospered as a comic singer, and became the star of Ziegfeld's first two Follies; she walked out on the third and returned to vaudeville, while Norworth, after their divorce, carved out a very successful career as a Broadway performer. Miss Bayes died in 1928 at the age of 47; Norworth in 1959 at the age of 80, having had nothing to do with this movie but selling his name.
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Details
- Runtime1 hour 52 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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