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The Music Man (1962)

The Music Man (1962)

This family favorite and Academy Award winning Musical – Best Music Scoring of Music Adaptation or Treatment by Ray Heindorf (his third Oscar out of 18 nominations) – was also nominated for Best Picture Editing and Sound as well as for its Color Art Direction-Set Decoration and Costume Designs. It features Robert Preston in the title (and his career) role as Professor Harold Hill Shirley Jones as Marian “the librarian” Buddy Hackett Hermione Gingold Paul Ford and eight-year-old Ron “Ronny” Howard as Winthrop Paroo Marian’s little brother; the ubiquitous Charles Lane and Mary Wickes also appear. It was produced & directed by Morton DaCosta (Auntie Mame (1958)) adapted by Marion Hargrove from the Meredith Willson-Franklin Lacey book and added to the National Film Registry in 2005.

The soundtrack features such memorable standards as: “Goodnight My Someone” and “Gary Indiana” the rousing “Shipoopi” plus the creatively intertwined numbers: “Ya Got Trouble/76 Trombones” and “Pick a Little Talk a Little/Goodnight Ladies”.

In case you are somehow unfamiliar with the story Hill is a confidence man who along with his cohort Marcellus Washburn (Hackett) happens upon River City a small town replete with naïve parents – including the Mayor (Ford) and his wife (Gingold) – that fall for his shtick. They come to believe that Hill can transform their little minions into a full-fledged patriotic marching band – all they have to do is buy brand new uniforms and instruments from him! The better (read and) informed Marian is the only one that’s skeptical even though (especially because?) little Winthrop is Hill’s biggest fan. So Hill has to win over or at least distract Miss Marian long enough for Washburn to collect the town’s money then they can get out of town before the townfolk realize that Hill’s a fraud. Of course wooing the comely librarian is fraught with its own dangers as the Professor soon discovers and risks being entrapped by his own lovemaking.

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