The Music Man
original film poster
Directed by	Morton DaCosta
Produced by	Morton DaCosta and Joel Freeman (uncredited)
Written by	Meredith Willson Marion Hargrove
Starring	Robert Preston Shirley Jones Buddy Hackett Ron Howard
Music by	Meredith Willson
Cinematography	Robert Burks
Editing by	William H. Ziegler
Distributed by	Warner Bros.
Release date(s)	June 19, 1962
Running time	151 min.
Language	English
IMDb profile

The Music Man is a 1962 film musical starring Robert Preston as Harold Hill and Shirley Jones as Marian Paroo. The film is based on the 1957 Broadway musical of the same name by Meredith Willson. Image File history File links 259208. ... Morton DaCosta (March 7, 1914 - January 26, 1989) was an American theatre and film director, film producer, writer, and actor. ... Morton DaCosta (March 7, 1914 - January 26, 1989) was an American theatre and film director, film producer, writer, and actor. ... Robert Meredith Willson (18 May 1902 – 15 June 1984) was an American composer and playwright, best known as the writer of The Music Man. ... Marion Hargrove (born October 13, 1919 - died August 23, 2003) was an American writer noted for the bestselling World War II comedy novel See Here, Private Hargrove (which was made into a 1944 movie with Robert Walker as Hargrove and Donna Reed as his love interest) as well as almost... Robert Preston (1918 - 1987) was an American actor. ... Shirley Jones, in a still from the opening credits of The Partridge Family Shirley Mae Jones (born March 31, 1934) is an Academy Award-winning singer and actress, perhaps best known for her role as Shirley Partridge, the widowed mother of five children, in the television series The Partridge Family... Buddy Hackett (August 31, 1924 – June 30, 2003) was an American comedian and actor. ... Ronald William Howard (born March 1, 1954 in Duncan, Oklahoma) is an American actor, and an Academy Award winning film director, and producer, known for his roles on sitcoms, movies and television. ... Robert Meredith Willson (18 May 1902 – 15 June 1984) was an American composer and playwright, best known as the writer of The Music Man. ... Cinematographer Robert Burks (1909 - 1968) was known for being proficient in virtually every genre and equally at home with black-and-white or colour. ... “WB” redirects here. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... The musical film is a film genre in which several songs sung by the characters are interwoven into the narrative. ... Robert Preston Meservey (June 8, 1918 - March 21, 1987), better known as Robert Preston, was an Oscar-nominated American actor. ... Shirley Jones, in a still from the opening credits of The Partridge Family Shirley Mae Jones (born March 31, 1934) is an Academy Award-winning singer and actress, perhaps best known for her role as Shirley Partridge, the widowed mother of five children, in the television series The Partridge Family... This article is about the stage musical. ... Robert Meredith Willson (18 May 1902 – 15 June 1984) was an American composer and playwright, best known as the writer of The Music Man. ...

The film was one of the biggest hits of the year and highly acclaimed critically. It also at last made Robert Preston into an "A" list star in motion pictures, after years of appearing in supporting roles in famous films and in starring roles in "B" movies. It also marked one of the first pictures in which Preston's character was not killed off, one of his former screen "trademarks." After the success of the film, Preston began getting much better film roles.

Although he scored a great success in the original stage version of the show, he was not first choice for the film version, partly because he was not a box office star. Jack L. Warner, who was notorious for wanting to film stage musicals with stars other than the ones who played the roles onstage, wanted Frank Sinatra for the role of Professor Harold Hill, but Meredith Willson insisted upon Preston.^[1] Cary Grant was also "begged" by Warner to play Hill but he declined, saying "nobody could do that role as well as Bob Preston".^[2] This article is about Jack Warner, the head of Warner Brothers. ... Sinatra redirects here. ... This article is about the British actor. ...

Unusually for a musical film at the time, Morton DaCosta, who had directed the show onstage, not only directed the film, but produced it as well, ensuring that the film was extremely faithful to the show. The actress Pert Kelton and the Buffalo Bills also reprised their stage roles. All of the show's songs were retained for the film with the exception of "My White Knight", which was replaced by "Being in Love"; this new song included some of the original song's lyrics. Morton DaCosta (March 7, 1914 - January 26, 1989) was an American theatre and film director, film producer, writer, and actor. ... Pert Kelton (1907-1968) was an American vaudeville, movie, and television actress. ... The Buffalo Bills were a barbershop quartet formed in Buffalo, New York. ...

Cast

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
Vern Reed .... Jacey Squires
Al Shea .... Ewart Dunlop
Bill Spangenberg .... Olin Britt
Wayne Ward .... Oliver Hix
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
Peggy Mondo .... Ethel Toffelmier
Jesslyn Fax .... Avis Grubb
Monique Vermont .... Amaryllis
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Trivia

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• The word "shipoopi" has no meaning and was concocted by Willson for the show.
• Several phrases were altered for the film, as the writers felt they were too obscurely Midwestern to appeal to a broader audience; "Jeely kly!" is Tommy Djilas's catchphrase in the play, while in the film he exclaims, "Great honk!"
• Shirley Jones found out she was pregnant while filming was already underway; the costume designers kept having to adjust her dresses to conceal her figure. In the scene at the footbridge, where Marian and Harold embrace, Shirley Jones says that baby Patrick kicked hard enough for Robert Preston to feel him.
• When Harold asks about a "good hotel" the man replies: "Try the Palmer House in Chicago". The Palmer House in Chicago, Illinois was built in 1912; it is now a five-star hotel.
• The woodcuts of authors seen in the River City Library were popular in Andrew Carnegie Foundation libraries of the era.
• The portrait seen in City Hall and the photograph in the high school is US President William H. Taft.
• The Music Man is set in July, 1912.
• The backlot used for River City is also used as Hazzard County in The Dukes of Hazzard and as Stars Hollow in Gilmore Girls.
• To film the final parade scene in 1962, Jack L. Warner selected the marching bands of the University of California at Los Angeles and the University of Southern California. He used many junior high school students from Southern California for the majority of the band. It took about 8 hours of shooting over two days to film the scene.
• All the musical instruments for the production were specially made for the film by the Olds Instrument Company in Fullerton, CA. The instruments were then refurbished and sold by Olds with no indication they were ever used in the film.
• In Halo 3, with the IWHBYD skull on, one of the marines says, "We got trouble right here in River City."

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Academy Awards

• Best Scoring (adaptation or treatment) - Ray Heindorf (win)
• Best Picture - Morton DaCosta (nomination)
• Best Costumes (color) - Dorothy Jeakins (nomination)
• Best Art Direction (color) - Paul Groesse and William James Hopkins (nomination)
• Best Film Editing - William H. Ziegler (nomination)
• Best Sound - George Groves (nomination)

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References

External links

• The Music Man at the Internet Movie Database