We're getting ready to blow our horn like we've never blown it before! Let 76 trombones lead the big parade from the Great White Way into your home. It's the Music Man, the screen version of one of Broadway's all-time blockbusters, a skyburst of Americana as irresistible as 4th of July fireworks.
Directed by
Morton DaCosta
Written by
Meredith Willson (book); Franklin Lacey (book); Marion Hargrove (screenplay).
Starring
Robert Preston (Harold Hill); Shirley Jones (Marian Paroo); Buddy Hackett (Marcellus Washburn); Hermione Gingold (Eulalie Mackechnie Shinn); Paul Ford (Mayor George Shinn); Pert Kelton (Mrs. Paroo); The Buffalo Bills (Themselves); Timmy Everett (Tommy Djilas); Susan Luckey (Zaneeta Shinn); Ron Howard (Winthrop Paroo (as Ronny Howard)); Harry Hickox (Charlie Cowell); Charles Lane (Constable Locke); Mary Wickes (Mrs. Squires); Sara Seegar (Maud Dunlop); Adnia Rice (Alma Hix). Please contact SFC to add other cast members and characters.
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