Main Street Today
1944This 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.
Acted in
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)