Main Street Today
1944 | 20m | English
Popularity: 0.6 (history)
| Director: | Edward L. Cahn |
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| Writer: | Karl Kamb, Julian Harmon |
| Staring: |
| 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. | |
| Release Date: | Mar 25, 1944 |
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| Director: | Edward L. Cahn |
| Writer: | Karl Kamb, Julian Harmon |
| Genres: | War, Drama, History |
| Keywords | small town, patriotism, propaganda, wartime, manufacturing, workforce, production, defense plant, weapons manufacturer, manufacturing plant |
| Production Companies | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Jan 30, 2026 Entered: Apr 29, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| 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) |
| Forbes Murray | Businessman (uncredited) |
| Harry 'Snub' Pollard | Pop Denton (uncredited) |
| Walter Soderling | Banker on Citizens Committee (uncredited) |
| William Tannen | Department of Transportation Representative (uncredited) |
| Ray Teal | Ed a Citizen at Committee Meeting (uncredited) |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Karl Kamb | Story, Screenplay |
| Julian Harmon | Story, Screenplay |
| Charles Salerno Jr. | Director of Photography |
| Tom Biggart | Editor |
| Richard Duce | Art Direction |
| Conrad Salinger | Orchestrator |
| Edward L. Cahn | Director |
| David Raksin | Music |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Jerry Bresler | Producer |
| Herbert Moulton | Producer |
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| 2024 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 1 |
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| 2024 | 8 | 2 | 7 | 0 |
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| 2025 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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| 2025 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025 | 12 | 1 | 4 | 0 |
| 2026 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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