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The music man

A con man in the guise of a traveling salesman gets off the train in River City, Iowa. He convinces the town to finance a children's marching band instead of a pool hall.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Willson, Meredith, 1902-1984 (Composer, Lyricist)
Corporate Author:	Buffalo Bills (Musical group) (Actor)
Other Authors:	Hargrove, Marion, 1919-2003 (Screenwriter), DaCosta, Morton, 1914-1989 (Film producer, Film director), Preston, Robert, 1918-1987 (Actor), Jones, Shirley, 1934 March 31- (Actor), Hackett, Buddy, 1924-2003 (Actor), Gingold, Hermione, 1897-1987 (Actor), Ford, Paul, 1901-1976 (Actor), Kelton, Pert (Actor), Everett, Timmy (Actor), Luckey, Susan (Actor), Howard, Ron, 1954- (Actor), Hickox, Harry (Actor), Lane, Charles, 1905-2007 (Actor), Wickes, Mary, 1910-1995 (Actor), Burks, Robert (director of photography.), Groesse, Paul, 1906-1987 (Art director), Ziegler, William (Editor of moving image work), White, Onna (Choreographer), Jeakins, Dorothy (Costume designer)
Format:	Videos DVD
Language:	English French
Published:	Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, [1999]
Edition:	Special edition.
Series:	Music man (Motion picture : 1962)
Subjects:	Band directors > Iowa > Drama. Swindlers and swindling > Drama. Librarians > Drama. Marching bands > Drama. Iowa > Drama. Musical films. Film adaptations. Romance films. Fiction films. Feature films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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Summary:	A con man in the guise of a traveling salesman gets off the train in River City, Iowa. He convinces the town to finance a children's marching band instead of a pool hall.
Item Description:	Originally produced as a motion picture in 1962. Based on Meredith Willson's "The music man" with his music and lyrics ; book written in collaboration with Franklin Lacy. Widescreen. Filmed in Technirama Technicolor. Disc label states playing time as 176 mins. Special features: cast & crew; Right here in River City: the making of Meredith Willson's The music man; behind the scenes; Winthrop Paroo; awards.
Physical Description:	1 videodisc (151 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Playing Time:	02:31:00
Format:	DVD; dual layer.
Audience:	MPAA rating: G ; Canadian Home Video rating: G.
Awards:	Winner (tie), Best Film - Musical Comedy, 1962 Golden Globes ; Winner, Best Music Adaptation or Treatment (Ray Heindorf), 1962 Academy Awards
Production Credits:	Director of photography, Robert Burks ; art director, Paul Groesse ; film editor, William Ziegler ; choreography by Onna White ; costume design, Dorothy Jeakins.
ISBN:	0790738155 9780790738154
Access:	Classroom use may be subject to licensing restrictions.
Author Notes:	Shirley Mae Jones is an American singer and actress of stage, film and television. She was born on March 31, 1934 in Pennsylvania and her parents named her after the child-star Shirley Temple. As a child she studied singing twice a week. Later on her voice teach in New York convinced her to audition for a Broadway agent. She was signed with agent Gus Sherman. When she went to an audition for an open casting call of a Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, the songwriters were so impressed with her that she earned a personal contract with them. She was in South Pacific first and then in the chorus of Me and Juliet. She became the understudy for the lead roles. In 1955 she was cast as the lead role of Laurie in the film version of Rodgers and Hammerstein's hit musical, Oklahoma! She later won an Academy award in 1960 for her supporting actress role in Elmer Gantry. In 1970 she auditioned for the role of Shirley Partridge in the ABC TV show, The Partridge Family. Her real-life twenty-year-old stepson David Cassidy, who was an unknown actor at the time, played Shirley Partridge's eldest son, Keith, on the show and became the hottest teen idol in the country. The show itself also created a number of records and songs performed by David and Shirley. That same year, "I Think I Love You" reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 music chart. Jones is a supporter of PETA. She has written her memoir entitled simply: Shirley Jones, A Memoir. (Bowker Author Biography)