Main Street Today (1944)

ALL 03/25/1944 (en) War, History, Drama 20 Min
  • Release
    03/25/1944
  • Production
    Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
  • Rotten tomato
    67%
  • Original title
    Main Street Today
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

Overview

This patriotic short film promotes America's war effort at home. The story looks at a fictional small town's main street, seeing where additional workforce, for increased production of materials needed by the military, might come from.

  1. Edward L. Cahn

    Director

  2. Tom Biggart

    Editor



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  1. John Nesbitt

    Narrator (voice)

  2. Ray Collins

    Otis Bird

  3. Henry O'Neill

    Vance Clark

  4. Addison Richards

    Fred Baker

  5. Morris Ankrum

    Mayor Charlie Maxwell (uncredited)

  6. George M. Carleton

    Store Owner Welburn Sprague (uncredited)

  7. Mary Currier

    Mrs. Hunter (uncredited)

  8. Robert Dudley

    Frank Hostetter (uncredited)

  9. Herbert Heyes

    General (uncredited)

  10. Stuart Holmes

    Citizen at Town Meeting (uncredited)

  11. Lew Kelly

    Electrician Art Hoover at Town Meeting (uncredited)

  12. Colin Kenny

    Man at Town Meeting (uncredited)

  13. Ruth Lee

    Helen (uncredited)

  14. Howard M. Mitchell

    Grocer Frank Victor (uncredited)

  15. Bert Moorhouse

    Citizen at Town Meeting (uncredited)

  16. Forbes Murray

    Businessman (uncredited)

  17. Harry 'Snub' Pollard

    Pop Denton (uncredited)

  18. Walter Soderling

    Banker on Citizens Committee (uncredited)

  19. William Tannen

    Department of Transportation Representative (uncredited)

  20. Ray Teal

    Ed a Citizen at Committee Meeting (uncredited)

Full Cast & Crew

Casts : 20 , Crews : 12

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Main Street Today (1944) 20 Min

ALL 03/25/1944 (en)
War, History, Drama
  • Release 03/25/1944
  • Production
    Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
  • Original title Main Street Today
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

This patriotic short film promotes America's war effort at home. The story looks at a fictional small town's main street, seeing where additional workforce, for increased production of materials needed by the military, might come from.

  1. Edward L. Cahn

    Director

  2. Karl Kamb, Julian Harmon

    Story

  3. Tom Biggart

    Editor

  4. Jerry Bresler, Herbert Moulton

    Producer