Main Street Today

Main Street Today

20 mins | March 25, 1944

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.

Main Street Today

20 mins | March 25, 1944

Main Street Today
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.
IMDb rating 6.1
Producers Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Original title Main Street Today
Directors Edward L. Cahn
Writers Julian Harmon, Karl Kamb

Cast

John Nesbitt

as Narrator (voice)

Ray Collins

as Otis Bird

Henry O'Neill

as Vance Clark

Addison Richards

as Fred Baker

Morris Ankrum

as Mayor Charlie Maxwell (uncredited)

George M. Carleton

as Store Owner Welburn Sprague (uncredited)

Mary Currier

as Mrs. Hunter (uncredited)

Robert Dudley

as Frank Hostetter (uncredited)

Herbert Heyes

as General (uncredited)

Stuart Holmes

as Citizen at Town Meeting (uncredited)

Lew Kelly

as Electrician Art Hoover at Town Meeting (uncredited)

Colin Kenny

as Man at Town Meeting (uncredited)

Ruth Lee

as Helen (uncredited)

Howard M. Mitchell

as Grocer Frank Victor (uncredited)

Bert Moorhouse

as Citizen at Town Meeting (uncredited)

Forbes Murray

as Businessman (uncredited)

Harry 'Snub' Pollard

as Pop Denton (uncredited)

Walter Soderling

as Banker on Citizens Committee (uncredited)

William Tannen

as Department of Transportation Representative (uncredited)

Ray Teal

as Ed a Citizen at Committee Meeting (uncredited)