Main Street Today
1944•20m•6.4•Released
WarHistoryDrama
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.
Director
Edward L. Cahn
Writer
Karl Kamb, Julian Harmon
Languages
English
Studio
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Cast
John Nesbitt
Narrator (voice)
Ray Collins
Otis Bird
Henry O'Neill
Vance Clark
Addison Richards
Fred Baker
Morris Ankrum
Mayor Charlie Maxwell (uncredited)
George M. Carleton
Store Owner Welburn Sprague (uncredited)
Mary Currier
Mrs. Hunter (uncredited)
Robert Dudley
Frank Hostetter (uncredited)
Herbert Heyes
General (uncredited)
Stuart Holmes
Citizen at Town Meeting (uncredited)
Lew Kelly
Electrician Art Hoover at Town Meeting (uncredited)
Colin Kenny
Man at Town Meeting (uncredited)
Ruth Lee
Helen (uncredited)
Howard M. Mitchell
Grocer Frank Victor (uncredited)
Bert Moorhouse
Citizen at Town Meeting (uncredited)
Production
Company
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Producer
Jerry Bresler
Producer
Herbert Moulton
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