Main Street to Broadway

Main Street to Broadway
Directed by	Tay Garnett
Written by	Samson Raphaelson(writer) Robert E. Sherwood(story)
Produced by	Lester Cowan
Starring	Mary Murphy Agnes Moorehead
Cinematography	James Wong Howe
Edited by	Gene Fowler, Jr.
Music by	Ann Ronell
Distributed by	MGM
Release date	October 13, 1953
Country	United States
Language	English

Main Street to Broadway is a 1953 light drama by independent producer Lester Cowan which was released by MGM. The backstage story features Tom Morton, as an aspiring playwright who hopes to stage a Broadway production starring Tallulah Bankhead, Mary Murphy, as a young lady from Indiana, and Herb Shriner, TV and radio humorist, in a rare acting role as a hardware store owner. Gertrude Berg portrays a landlady. Featured are a number of famous Broadway stars playing themselves, including Ethel Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore (in his last film), Shirley Booth, Helen Hayes, Faye Emerson, Joshua Logan, Mary Martin, Lilli Palmer and John Van Druten, as well as New York baseball manager Leo Durocher.

In one scene, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II create a new song, "There's Music in You", then perform it for their friends, with Rodgers at the piano and Hammerstein singing the vocals. Mary Martin later performs it.

The black-and-white film, which has a running time of 101 minutes, was directed by Tay Garnett and written by Samson Raphaelson and Robert E. Sherwood. Others in the cast include Agnes Moorehead, Rosemary de Camp, Rex Harrison, Joshua Logan, Arthur Shields, Madge Kennedy, Carl Benton Reid, Frank Ferguson, Robert Bray, Florence Bates, and Cornel Wilde.

External links

• Main street to Broadway at IMDb
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