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Main Street to Broadway is a american film of genre Comedy-drama directed by Tay Garnett released in USA on 12 october 1953 with Mary Murphy
Main Street to Broadway (1953)
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Add to a movie listMain Street to Broadway is a 1953 light drama-comedy by independent producer Lester Cowan, his final credit, in collaboration with The Council of the Living Theatre, which provided tie-up with the Broadway names. Release was by MGM. The backstage story features Tom Morton, as an aspiring playwright who hopes to stage a Broadway production, Mary Murphy, as a young lady from Indiana, and Herb Shriner, TV and radio humorist, in a rare acting role as a hardware store owner.
Tallulah Bankhead is featured in a parody sequence of herself. The list of Broadway luminaries also playing themselves, in smaller cameos, includes Ethel Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore (in his last film), Shirley Booth, Louis Calhern, Faye Emerson, Rex Harrison, Helen Hayes, Mary Martin, Lilli Palmer, John Van Druten and Cornel Wilde. Included is New York baseball manager Leo Durocher. Many others are unidentified, such as Vivian Blaine, glimpsed in a theater lobby.
In one scene, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II create a new song, "There's Music in You", then perform it for their friends, with Rodgers at the piano and Hammerstein singing the vocals. Mary Martin is later seen rehearsing the song for director Joshua Logan.
The black-and-white film, which has a running time of 97 minutes, was directed by Tay Garnett, screenplay by Samson Raphaelson, based on a story Robert E. Sherwood, and photographed by James Wong Howe. Sequences were filmed in New York, with shots at the Martin Beck and old Empire theaters. Others as story characters include Gertrude Berg, as a landlady, Agnes Moorehead, Rosemary de Camp, Arthur Shields, and, in a fantasy sequence, Florence Bates, Madge Kennedy, Carl Benton Reid, Frank Ferguson, and Robert Bray.
Actors
Mary Murphy
(Mary Craig)
Agnes Moorehead
(Mildred Waterbury)
Rosemary DeCamp
(Mrs. Harry Craig)
Lionel Barrymore
(Self)
Herb Shriner
(Frank Johnson)
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