Our Town (1955)
1h 30m
Running Time
September 19, 1955Release Date
Plot.
Change comes slowly to a small New Hampshire town in the early 20th century. People grow up, get married, live, and die. Milk and the newspaper get delivered every morning, and nobody locks their front doors. This musicalization of Thornton Wilder's classic play stars Frank Sinatra who introduces the song, "Love and Marriage," which would go on to be immortalized as the theme song to the sitcom Married with Children.
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Cast & Crew.
Frank Sinatra
Stage Manager
Paul Newman
George Gibbs
Eva Marie Saint
Emily Webb
Shelley Fabares
Rebecca Gibbs
Sylvia Field
Mrs. Gibbs
Paul Hartman
Mr. Webb
Peg Hillias
Mrs. Webb
Ernest Truex
Dr. Gibbs
Carol Veazie
Mrs. Soames
Harvey B. Dunn
Charlotte Knight
Thornton Wilder
Writer / Theatre Play
Sammy Cahn
Lyricist
Delbert Mann
Director
Dominick Dunne
Assistant Director
Nelson Riddle
Music Director
Valerie Bettis
Choreographer
David Shaw
Adaptation
Otis Riggs
Set Designer
Robert Campbell
Costume Design
Fred Coe
Producer
Roger Adams
Additional Music
Jimmy Van Heusen
Songs
Anthony Sydes
Media.
Details.
Release DateSeptember 19, 1955
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 30m
Content RatingNR
Genres
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This Movie Is About.
small town
dying and death
musical
growing up
based on play or musical
Wiki.
"Our Town" is a 1955 episode of the American anthology series Producers' Showcase directed by Delbert Mann and starring Frank Sinatra, Paul Newman and Eva Marie Saint. Sinatra plays the stage manager and Paul Newman and Eva Marie Saint portray the teenagers who fall in love and get married. The episode is a musical adaptation of Thornton Wilder's 1938 play Our Town, with songs by Jimmy van Heusen and Sammy Cahn, mostly sung by Sinatra the stage manager between and during scenes from the play, and including a duet with Paul Newman and Eva Marie Saint. The 90-minute show was Sinatra's only performance in a dramatic role specifically for television until Contract on Cherry Street in 1977.