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My Birthday List (55 movies items)"Favorite Movie Of 1962 - The Music Man Runner Up - What Ever Happened To Baby Jane? Top Grossing Movie Of 1962 - Lawrence of Arabia Best Picture Oscar Of 1962 - Lawrence of Arabia"
Alternate Holidays Movies (26 movies items)"Takes place during the weeks leading up to the Forth of July celebrations."
Favorite Films of All Time (1996 Edition)
WATCHED IN 2010
Greatest Film Musicals (51 movies items)"Songs: "Till There Was You", "Goodnight My Someone", "Seventy Six Trombones". "
Best Films of 1962
Academy Award For Best Original Music Score (121 movies items)"1962 * MUSIC (Scoring of Music-adaptation or treatment): The Music Man - Ray Heindorf NOMINEES: * Billy Rose's Jumbo - George Stoll * Gigot - Michel Magne * Gypsy - Frank Perkins * The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm - Leigh Harline"
The 100 Greatest Britons (100 movies items)"John Peel Broadcaster John Peel's personal commitment to showcasing new and unsigned musical acts earned him thousands of fans across the country. Some of the worlds biggest bands, such as Pink Floyd, The Sex Pistols and David Bowie, credit him with providing their careers with major boosts."
Disneyland, the Movie!
“Professor Harold Hill (Robert Preston) arrives in River City with a plan to make some money from the gullible citizens. He tells them he is organising a River City boy's band with the intention of leaving town with their money before the instruments arrive. He hasn't allowed for the fact that he will meet beautiful librarian Marian Paroo (Shirley Jones) and fall for her charms. Marian is at first very suspicious of Hill and then begins to realise he is doing a lot of good things for River City. Hill changes his plan, decides to stay and against all the odds manages to form the boy's band. The high class supporting cast includes Buddy Hackett, Paul Ford (who played the frustrated - and sometimes exasperated - Colonel Hall in the "Sergeant Bilko" TV series), Hermoine Gingold, a very young Ro” read more
MY FAVORITE MOVIES OF ALL TIME (38 movies items)"ROBERT PRESTON is "The Music Man" in the film version of his sensational Broadway role. "
“In my defense, I did see this as a stage production before the movie version. But now I'm so used to this one, I try to watch it here and there.
Robert Preston is The Music Man, the traveling, swindling salesman, who "gets his foot caught in the door", and can't rip off an off-beat town after getting attached to the people. Great music and characters and Mrs. Partridge (Shirley Jones) as Marion the Librarian.
One of my fav movies, having been a band geek and all.” read more
