Main Street to Broadway (1953) on Netflix
Approved19531h 43mMusicRomance
Playwright Tony Monaco, down on his luck, meets Mary Craig, a student actress quitting the stage and going home to Indiana. His agent, Mildred Waterbury, wants him to write something upbeat.
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Plot summary
Tony Monaco's new play gets a workshop performance, and student actress Mary Craig is in the cast. She tells the actor she performed with that the play is callous about love and home life, and Tony reports bitterly that the actor no longer wants to do it. On the street the two quarrel, then kiss, watched from across the street by a songwriting team. Mary says a steady boyfriend named Frank is waiting for her back in Indiana. Tony's agent, Mildred Waterbury, advises him to write something upbeat; her client Tallulah Bankhead complains that she is offered only murderers and tiger women, and Mildred promises her a wholesome play about American motherhood. Tony takes the train to Terre Haute with Mary and tells her he loves her, and her parents take him in while he writes.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Main Street to Broadway (1953)
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- Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II wrote a new song, "There's Music in You", on screen: Rodgers played the piano while Hammerstein sang it for friends, and Mary Martin was later seen rehearsing it for director Joshua Logan.
- Lionel Barrymore appeared as himself in a small cameo among a parade of Broadway luminaries, and it was his last film. Ethel Barrymore, Shirley Booth, Rex Harrison, Helen Hayes and Mary Martin were among the others playing themselves.
- Sequences were shot in New York at the Martin Beck and the old Empire theaters, and the Empire was set to be demolished the same year the film was released.
