Music Man, The (1962) - (Movie Clip) Trouble

Music Man, The (1962) -- (Original Trailer)

A con artist hawks musical instruments to small towns in The Music Man (1962), based on the Broadway musical by Meredith Willson.

Music Man, The (1962) -- (Movie Clip) Wells Fargo

The company starts on Meredith's Willson's tune, an interlude with Mayor and Mrs. Shinn (Paul Ford, Hermione Gingold) and Marian (Shirley Jones), and her brother Winthrop (Ronnie "Ron" Howard) getting his trumpet from Professor Hill (Robert Preston), in The Music Man, 1962.

Music Man, The (1962) -- (Movie Clip) Iowa Stubborn

Just arrived on the train from Illinois, after an opening number confirming the disdain of other traveling salesmen for his scorched-earth methods, un-credentialed music professor Henry Hill (Robert Preston) hears from the folk of River City, Io-way about their own predisposition, in the hit Warner Bros. adaptation of the Meredith Willson musical, with Timmy Everett, and Paul Ford as the Mayor, in The Music Man, 1962.

Music Man, The (1962) -- (Movie Clip) Shipoopi

Buddy Hackett never played the part on Broadway, and was a regular on NBC’s Tonight Show at the time, but his one number as Marcellus, friend of the title character, is one of the more remembered and parodied from the landmark Meredith Willson musical, The Music Man, 1962, starring Robert Preston.

Music Man, The (1962) -- (Movie Clip) Till There Was You

Librarian Marian (Shirley Jones) is magnanimous in her praise of huckster Professor Hill (Robert Preston), with one of composer Meredith Willson's most famous tunes from The Music Man, 1962.