
Main Street Today (1944)
War, History, Drama
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.
Director: Edward L. Cahn
The Cast

John Nesbitt
Narrator (voice)

Ray Collins
Otis Bird

Henry O'Neill
Vance Clark

Addison Richards
Fred Baker

Morris Ankrum
Mayor Charlie Maxwell (uncredited)

George M. Carleton
Store Owner Welburn Sprague (uncredited)

Mary Currier
Mrs. Hunter (uncredited)

Robert Dudley
Frank Hostetter (uncredited)

Herbert Heyes
General (uncredited)

Stuart Holmes
Citizen at Town Meeting (uncredited)

Lew Kelly
Electrician Art Hoover at Town Meeting (uncredited)

Colin Kenny
Man at Town Meeting (uncredited)

Ruth Lee
Helen (uncredited)

Howard M. Mitchell
Grocer Frank Victor (uncredited)

Bert Moorhouse
Citizen at Town Meeting (uncredited)

Forbes Murray
Businessman (uncredited)

Harry 'Snub' Pollard
Pop Denton (uncredited)

Walter Soderling
Banker on Citizens Committee (uncredited)

William Tannen
Department of Transportation Representative (uncredited)

Ray Teal
Ed a Citizen at Committee Meeting (uncredited)
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