Main Street Today
Main Street Today
Release: 1944-03-25
·Runtime: 20m
·★ 6.2
War
History
Drama
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.
Production Countries
United States of America
Production Companies
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Cast
Mary Currier
as Mrs. Hunter (uncredited)
Lew Kelly
as Electrician Art Hoover at Town Meeting (uncredited)
John Nesbitt
as Narrator (voice)
Addison Richards
as Fred Baker
Robert Dudley
as Frank Hostetter (uncredited)
Herbert Heyes
as General (uncredited)
Stuart Holmes
as Citizen at Town Meeting (uncredited)
Harry 'Snub' Pollard
as Pop Denton (uncredited)
Ray Teal
as Ed a Citizen at Committee Meeting (uncredited)
George M. Carleton
as Store Owner Welburn Sprague (uncredited)
Colin Kenny
as Man at Town Meeting (uncredited)
William Tannen
as Department of Transportation Representative (uncredited)
Henry O'Neill
as Vance Clark
Morris Ankrum
as Mayor Charlie Maxwell (uncredited)
Ruth Lee
as Helen (uncredited)
Howard M. Mitchell
as Grocer Frank Victor (uncredited)
Forbes Murray
as Businessman (uncredited)
Walter Soderling
as Banker on Citizens Committee (uncredited)
Ray Collins
as Otis Bird