Main Street Today (1944)

Name: Main Street Today
Genre: War, History, Drama
Released: 1944-03-25
Duration: 20 min
Cast: John Nesbitt, Ray Collins, Henry O'Neill, Addison Richards, Morris Ankrum

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.

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Released 1944-03-25 · 20 min · War, History, Drama

Directed by Edward L. Cahn

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)