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The Music Man is a 1962 American musical film directed and produced by Morton DaCosta, based on Meredith Willson's 1957 Broadway musical of the same name, which DaCosta also directed. Robert Preston reprises the title role from the stage version, starring alongside Shirley Jones , Buddy Hackett , Hermione Gingold , Ronny Howard , and Paul Ford .
The Music Man is a musical with book, music, and lyrics by Meredith Willson, based on a story by Willson and Franklin Lacey.The plot concerns con man Harold Hill, who poses as a boys' band organizer and leader and sells band instruments and uniforms to naïve Midwestern townsfolk, promising to train the members of the new band.
In August 2014, shortly after Robin Williams's death, it was revealed that Williams had grown weary working on film sets because it tended to take him away from his family for extended periods of time, and he signed on for the sequel "purely out of necessity". [74]
Tarantino at the 2015 San Diego Comic-Con. Quentin Tarantino is an American film director, screenwriter and film producer who has directed ten films. [a] He first began his career in the 1980s by directing and writing Love Birds In Bondage [1] and writing, directing and starring in the black-and-white My Best Friend's Birthday, a partially lost amateur short film which was never officially ...
[citation needed] In 2022, he briefly reprised his role as Vulture in the Sony's Spider-Man Universe (SSU) film Morbius, [56] which released on April 1, 2022. In 2023, Keaton reprised his role as Batman/Bruce Wayne, after last playing the role in 1992, in the DC Extended Universe superhero film The Flash .
Robert Preston Meservey (June 8, 1918 – March 21, 1987) was an American stage and film actor and singer. His best known role was Professor Harold Hill in the 1957 musical The Music Man for which he received the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical.
The Music Man is a 2003 American made-for-television musical film directed by Jeff Bleckner with a teleplay by Sally Robinson. It is based on the 1957 musical of the same name by Meredith Willson , which in turn was based on a story by Willson and Franklin Lacey .
Stefanie Keenan/Getty Images ; Lionsgate Films Real talk, August 26 should be a national holiday — or at least a day of observance — due to how many hot movie stars were born on that date.