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As Robert Preston, by which name he would be known for his entire professional career, he appeared in many Hollywood films, predominantly Westerns, but is probably best remembered for his performance as " Professor " Harold Hill in Meredith Willson's musical The Music Man ( 1962 ).
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He also cast leading actors such as Claudette Colbert, Gloria Swanson, Gary Cooper, Jetta Goudal, Robert Preston, Paulette Goddard and Charlton Heston in multiple pictures.
* 1974 – Robert K. Preston, a disgruntled U. S. Army private, buzzes the White House in a stolen helicopter.
* 1918 – Robert Preston, American actor ( d. 1987 )
The feud became moot on February 20, 1991, when Tim Mara sold his shares in the club to Preston Robert Tisch.
In addition to McQueen, the cast included Robert Preston, Ida Lupino, Joe Don Baker and Ben Johnson.
Fullback Robert Newhouse and halfback Preston Pearson also contributed from the offensive backfield, combining for 1, 326 rushing and receiving yards, while Newhouse also scored 10 touchdowns.
* June 8 – Robert Preston, American actor ( The Music Man ) ( d. 1987 )
* December 19 – Meredith Willson's classic musical The Music Man, starring Robert Preston, debuts on Broadway.
** Robert Preston, American actor ( b. 1918 )
with Robert Preston and was nominated for the Tony Award ( Leading Actress in a Musical ).
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In the 1962 film version of " The Music Man ," Howard played Winthrop Paroo, the child with the lisp ; the film starred Robert Preston and Shirley Jones.
It premiered on Broadway at the Ambassador Theatre on 3 March 1966, starring Robert Preston and Rosemary Harris, who won a Tony Award for her portrayal of Eleanor.
Directed by Noel Willman, it starred Robert Preston as Henry, Rosemary Harris as Eleanor, James Rado as Richard, and Christopher Walken as Philip.
Further camellias imported in the East Indiamen were associated with the patrons whose gardeners grew them: a double red for Sir Robert Preston in 1794 and the pale pink named " Lady Hume's Blush " for Amelia, the lady of Sir Abraham Hume of Wormleybury, Hertfordshire ( 1806 ).
Dennis Morgan, Eddie Albert, Robert Preston, and Franchot Tone were also considered for the Drake role.
It stars Brian Donlevy, Robert Preston, Macdonald Carey, Albert Dekker, Barbara Britton and William Bendix.
* Robert Preston as Private Joe Doyle
The musical was made into a film of the same title in 1974 starring Lucille Ball, Beatrice Arthur, and Robert Preston.
Although not commercial successes, Dear World ( 1969 ) starring Angela Lansbury, Mack & Mabel ( 1974 ) starring Robert Preston and Bernadette Peters, and The Grand Tour ( 1979 ) starring Joel Grey are noted for their interesting concepts and their melodic, memorable scores.
The Starkweather clan had lived in Preston at least as early as 1694, according to records of a land gift in which Captain John Masons gave land to Robert Starkweather, William's grandfather.
– Gordon MacRae and Carol Lawrence ( Broadway replacements for Mary Martin and Robert Preston ) singing the title song from the show, and MacRae singing " I Love My Wife " and " My Cup Runneth Over ".
The film was written by Garrett Fort, Robert Presnell Sr. and Preston Sturges, who provided the dialogue in his first Hollywood assignment, and was directed by Hobart Henley.
Their second daughter, Eleanor Post Close, later known in the media as Eleanor Post Hutton, married film director Preston Sturges, Etienne Marie Robert Gautier, George Curtis Rand, Hans Habe, Owen D. Johnson ( son of author Owen Johnson ), and orchestral conductor Leon Barzin.
* The Music Man, starring Robert Preston, Shirley Jones, Buddy Hackett, Paul Ford, Ron Howard
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and Robert Sheckley's The Status Civilization ( 1960 ) describes a world which, frightened by the powers of destruction science has given it, becomes static and conformist.
Sir Robert Watson-Watt's `` rebuttal '' of Sir Charles Snow's Godkin Lectures is marred throughout by too forceful a desire to defend Lindemann and apparently himself from Sir Charles' supposed falsehoods while stating those `` falsehoods '' in an unclear incoherent argument.
The promotion of Robert E. Swift to the position of Assistant Manager of the Interference Control Field Service Department was announced early in December by Frederick S. Scarborough, Manager of Interference Control Field Service.
( Robert Chiang, J. B. Jackson, P. J. Flory ) Carefully executed melting studies on this system ( M. J. Richardson ) permit quantitative estimation of the instability engendered by reduced crystallite length.
On Big Stone Lake near the headwaters of the Red River, Robert Dickson, Superintendent of the Western Indian Department of Canada, had a trading post and planned in 1818 to build a fort to be defended by twenty men and two small artillery pieces.
Robert E. Lee represented the dignity needed by a rebelling confederacy.
At 3:57 a.m., with the plane about twenty minutes out of El Paso, passenger Robert Berry, a San Antonio advertising man, glanced up and saw the man and boy, accompanied by a stewardess, walking up the aisle toward the cockpit.
A Sonata For Violin And Piano, called `` Bella Bella '', by Robert Fleming, was given its first United States performance.
Works by J. C. Bach, Anton Craft, Joseph Haydn, Giuseppe Sammartini, Comenico Dragonetti and J. G. Janitsch were performed by seven instrumentalists including Anabel Brieff, flutist, Josef Marx, oboist, and Robert Conant, pianist and harpsichordist.
Obviously Sloan's early years were influenced by his close friend Robert Henri.
Six days after the surrender of Confederate commanding general Robert E. Lee, however, Lincoln was assassinated by actor and Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth.
The commander of Fort Sumter, South Carolina, Major Robert Anderson sent a request for provisions to Washington, and the execution of Lincoln's order to meet that request was seen by the secessionists as an act of war.
During the 17th century, practical alchemy started to evolve into modern chemistry, as it was renamed by Robert Boyle, the " father of modern chemistry ".< ref name =" Deem, Rich 2005 ">
Two binary abaci constructed by Dr. Robert C. Good, Jr., made from two Chinese abaci
* Evolution of alphabets, animation by Prof. Robert Fradkin at the University of Maryland
Considered by Confederate President Jefferson Davis to be the finest general officer in the Confederacy before the emergence of Robert E. Lee, he was killed early in the Civil War at the Battle of Shiloh and was the highest-ranking officer, Union or Confederate, killed during the entire war.
I, edited by Robert Underwood Johnson and Clarence C. Buel.
*< cite > Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics </ cite >, Alfred Korzybski, Preface by Robert P. Pula, Institute of General Semantics, 1994, hardcover, 5th edition, ISBN 0-937298-01-8, ( full text online )
* Why I Am An Agnostic by Robert G. Ingersoll,.
An additional line of reasoning in support of particle theory ( and by extension atomic theory ) began in 1827 when botanist Robert Brown used a microscope to look at dust grains floating in water and discovered that they moved about erratically — a phenomenon that became known as " Brownian motion ".
The 1942 novel Five Little Pigs ( aka Murder in Retrospect ), in which Poirot investigates a murder committed sixteen years before by analysing various accounts of the tragedy, is a Rashomon-like performance that critic and mystery novelist Robert Barnard called the best of the Christie novels.
Following public demonstrations against Ter-Petrosyan's policies on Nagorno-Karabakh, the President resigned in January 1998 and was replaced by Prime Minister Robert Kocharyan, who was elected President in March 1998.
In 1858 he was transferred to Fort Moultrie in Charleston harbor, but by the start of the Civil War, he was a captain and second in command in the garrison at Fort Sumter, under Maj. Robert Anderson.
The term " orbital " was coined by Robert Mulliken in 1932.
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