Robert Preston
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Robert Preston Meservey (June 8, 1918 â March 21, 1987) was an American stage and film actor and singer, best known for his collaboration with composer Meredith Willson and originating the role of Professor Harold Hill in the 1957 musical The Music Man and the 1962 film adaptation; the film earned him his first of two Golden Globe Award nominations. Preston collaborated twice with filmmaker Blake Edwards, first in S.O.B. (1981) and again in Victor/Victoria (1982). For portraying Carroll "Toddy" Todd in the latter, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor at the 55th Academy Awards.
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- Marian the Librarian
- Iowa Stubborn
- Ya Got Trouble
- The Sadder-But-Wiser Girl for Me
- Seventy-Six Trombones
- I Won't Send Roses
- Hundreds Of Girls
- Overture "Mack & Mabel" by Robert Preston
- The Music Man: Till There Was You (Tony Won In 1958)
- I Promise You A Happy Ending
- Gay Paree
- All the Dearly Beloved / Together Forever / I Do! I Do! featuring Robert Preston
- Movies Were Movies
- When Mabel Comes In The Room by Robert Preston
- The Music Man: Shipoopi (Tony Won In 1958)
- The Music Man: Seventy-Six Trombones (Tony Won In 1958)
- The Music Man: Ya Got Trouble (Tony Won In 1958)
- The Music Man: Iowa Stubborn (Tony Won In 1958)
- My Heart Leaps Up
- Goodnight featuring Mary Martin
- I Wanna Make The World Laugh
