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ABC Radio aired an adaptation in 1949, directed by Homer Fickett and starring Burgess Meredith and Joyce Redman.
The score was written and directed by Meredith Willson, later to become well-known as creator of the 1957 musical comedy The Music Man.
Though Meredith was legally entitled to register, the Governor of Mississippi, Ross Barnett, tried to block him by having the Legislature pass a law that “ prohibited any person who was convicted of a state crime from admission to a state school .” The law was directed at Meredith, who had been convicted of “ false voter registration .” Since passage of its 1890 constitution, the state had voter registration rules that effectively disfranchised black voters.
* On 7 October 2001 BBC Radio 3 broadcast a production of The Tempest adapted for radio and directed by David Hunter starring Philip Madoc as Prospero, Nina Wadia as Ariel, Josh Richards as Caliban, Catrin Rhys as Miranda, Andrew Cryer as Ferdinand, Rudolph Walker as Gonzalo, James Laurenson as Alonso, Christian Rodska as Sebastian and Ioan Meredith as Antonio.
It is written and directed by and stars Sylvester Stallone as the title character, with Carl Weathers as former boxing rival Apollo Creed, Burgess Meredith as Rocky's trainer Mickey, and Talia Shire as Rocky's wife, Adrian.
There have been four Broadway revivals, in 1928 at the Guild Theatre, 1956 at the Martin Beck Theatre and then the Morosco Theatre starring Glynis Johns, Cornelia Otis Skinner, Eli Wallach, Burgess Meredith, and Charles Laughton, who also directed, in 1980 at the Circle in the Square Theatre, and 2001 at the American Airlines Theatre, with Cherry Jones in the title role.
* 2010 Nobody Knows – Lead role, directed by Gigi Edgley & Brian Meredith
In Harm's Way is a 1965 American epic war film produced and directed by Otto Preminger and starring John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, Patricia Neal, Tom Tryon, Paula Prentiss, Stanley Holloway, Burgess Meredith, Brandon deWilde, Jill Haworth, Dana Andrews, and Henry Fonda.
The film was directed by Lewis Milestone, stars Dana Andrews and features Richard Conte, George Tyne, John Ireland, Lloyd Bridges, Sterling Holloway, Norman Lloyd, Herbert Rudley and Richard Benedict, with narration by Burgess Meredith.
Foul Play is a 1978 American comic mystery / thriller film written and directed by Colin Higgins, and starring Goldie Hawn, Chevy Chase, Dudley Moore, Burgess Meredith, Eugene Roche, Rachel Roberts, Brian Dennehy and Billy Barty.
Joe, is a 1945 American war film directed by William Wellman, starring Burgess Meredith and Robert Mitchum.
A heavily revised Royal Shakespeare Company production ran at Stratford ( UK ) from November 13, 2000 until January 27, 2001, with Philip Quast and Meredith Braun and directed by Adrian Noble, staged and choreographed by Gillian Lynne.
Anthony Perkins directed the original production which starred Perkins as Tandy, Hector Elizondo as the Attendant ( God ), Marvin Lichterman as Bieberman, Annie Rachel as Meredith, Conrad Bain as Old Timer, Mitchell Jason as Broker, Jere Admire as Young Man, Teno Pollick as 2nd Young Man, Eileen Dietz as Young Girl, Alfred Hinckley as Flanders, Gabor Morea as Gottlieb, Jack Knight as Longshoreman, and William Walsh as 2nd Longshoreman.

Meredith and movie
The movie includes seasoned actors such as Ava Gardner, Burgess Meredith and Eli Wallach and such future stars as Christopher Walken and Jeff Goldblum.
In 1969, with the help of Artie's Ivy League-educated wife Meredith Bradford, they fulfilled their ambitions by leasing and renovating a dilapidated two-story building at 895 O ' Farrell Street, which they converted into the O ' Farrell Theatre, a movie theater with a makeshift film studio upstairs.
Meredith Rhule, his personal in-home movie projectionist, indicates that Evans absolutely knows how to impress potential movie backers.
* Aftermath ( 2001 film ), a television movie starring Meredith Baxter
At some point, she would usually announce that her feelings would be best expressed by reciting a monologue, sometimes from a film such as West Side Story but more often than not from an obscure TV movie such as The Betty Broderick Story starring Meredith Baxter-Birney ".
She was replaced just before the show began, and Billie Jo was played for the first two years ( 1963 – 1965 ) by Jeannine Riley, who left to pursue a movie career ; in season three ( 1965 – 1966 ) by Gunilla Hutton ; and for the rest of the show ( 1966 – 1970 ) by Meredith MacRae.
Set in 1935, the movie tells the story of a 12-year-old girl, Natty Gann ( Meredith Salenger ).
The movie starred, among others, Michael Constantine, Meredith Baxter-Birney, Tom Bosley, Eileen Brennan, Vic Morrow, Will Geer, and John Ritter.
" Till There Was You " is a song written by Meredith Willson for his 1957 musical play The Music Man, and which also appeared in the 1962 movie version.

Meredith and Man
The production was nominated for five Tony Awards including Best Musical in 1957, but the award for Best Musical went to Meredith Willson's The Music Man ; it won a Tony Award for Robbins ' choreography.
* December 19 – Meredith Willson's classic musical The Music Man, starring Robert Preston, debuts on Broadway.
* Words and Music: Only four musicals have won the Tony Award for Best Musical when a person had ( co -) written the Book ( non-sung dialogue and storyline ) and the Score ( music and lyrics ): 1958 winner The Music Man ( Meredith Willson – award for Book and Score did not exist that year ), 1986 winner The Mystery of Edwin Drood ( Rupert Holmes – who also won for Book and Score ), 1996 winner Rent ( Jonathan Larson – who also won for Book and Score ), and 2011 winner The Book of Mormon ( Trey Parker, Robert Lopez, and Matt Stone also won for Book and Score ).
It introduced Burgess Meredith to the series ; he went on to star in three more episodes, being introduced as " no stranger to The Twilight Zone " in promotional spots for season two's " The Obsolete Man ".
" The Obsolete Man " takes the episode's literary subtext — the notion that reading may eventually be considered " obsolete " — to an extreme: The state has declared books obsolete and a librarian ( also played by Meredith ) finds himself on trial for his own obsolescence.
* The Music Man: music and lyrics by Meredith Willson
** Meredith Willson ( composer ) & the original cast with Robert Preston, Barbara Cook, David Burns, Eddie Hodges, Pert Kelton & Helen Raymond for The Music Man
* 1958: The Music Man – Book by Meredith Willson and Franklin Lacey, music and lyrics by Willson
The music of Iowa includes such notable musicians as Slipknot, The Envy Corps, Radio Moscow, Modern Life Is War, Unknown Component, Bix Beiderbecke and Greg Brown, as well as Meredith Willson, composer of The Music Man, and Alice Ettinger who was renowned enough to perform in Europe in the 1890s.
In " Printer's Devil ," Meredith portrayed the Devil himself, and in " The Obsolete Man " he portrayed a librarian, sentenced to death in a future, dystopic totalitarian society.
* The number of trombonists leading the parade in " Seventy-Six Trombones ," from Meredith Willson's musical The Music Man
" Frühlingsrauschen " (" Rustle of Spring ") was quoted by Meredith Willson in his musical The Music Man, was one of the main themes of Dennis Potter's 1986 miniseries The Singing Detective, and was sampled by hip-hop producer 4th Disciple on Killarmy's track " Wu-Renegades.
Robert Meredith Willson ( May 18, 1902 – June 15, 1984 ) was an American composer, songwriter, conductor and playwright, best known for writing the book, music and lyrics for the hit Broadway musical The Music Man.
He often gave out autographed copies of his record album, Meredith Willson Sings Songs from The Music Man.
* Skipper, John C. ( 2000 ), Meredith Willson: The Unsinkable Music Man Savas Pub.
* Oates, Bill ( 2005 ), Meredith Willson-America's Music Man, Author House, ISBN 1-4208-3535-4
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 ).
* The Music Man, a Broadway musical play by Meredith Willson
* In the 1962 film version of Meredith Willson's musical The Music Man, Marian Paroo, the librarian, asks the prudish Mrs. Shinn, the mayor's wife, if she would not rather have her daughter reading the classic Persian poetry of Omar Khayyam than Elinor Glyn, to which Mrs. Shinn replies, " What Elinor Glyn reads is her mother's problem!
Although it opened to good reviews, it was overshadowed by Meredith Willson's The Music Man at that year's Tony Awards.
In total, Meredith appeared 390 times for Man City and scored 150 goals and won 1 FA Cup with City.
Wickes also served as the live-action reference model for Cruella De Vil in Walt Disney's One Hundred and One Dalmatians ( 1961 ), and played Mrs. Squires in the film adaptation of Meredith Willson's The Music Man ( 1962 ).
* In Meredith Willson's The Music Man, conman Harold Hill reveals that he used to be in the steam automobile business until " someone actually invented one.

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