Topic: Robert Preston

Confidence Trick

In an episode of Dragnet from the late nineteen-sixties, Joe Friday is assigned to the "bunco squad," where he and his partner, Bill Gannon, bust a...

Finding the best place to flop

0 . Wordsmith Lynn Ludlow's first-person account of a museum mishap:. . "As we leave the Gertrude Stein exhibit Sunday, I miss a step. Thud. Face ...

Build-It-Yourself Helicopters

When someone slaps down a hundred grand for a vehicle-a cigarette boat, say, or a sports car-there is usually some kind of red-carpet handover: The delivery, just eight days after the order had been placed with RotorWay International in Arizona, caught Harms ...
There has been a great deal of debate on the subject of viruses and whether or not they can truly be considered a life form. Viruses cause all manner of strange and unpleasant things to happen to an unwitting host. Most recently ...

Musical comedies

Swing Time (1936) John Garnett (Fred Astaire) is a gambler and dancer. He heads to New York with a friend (Victor Moore) to secure the funds where Garnett meets Penny (Ginger Rogers) a dance school instructor and promptly falls in love. Preston ...
This is not to say that all moral crusaders are charlatans, but Robert Preston played one of the most delightfully devilish ones ever to hit the stage or screen. Here he is in his most famous role, as Professor Harold Hill in ...
Although there are several vitamins and minerals that are important for preventing acne breakouts, the most important nutrients are Vitamin A and Vitamin B-2. Vitamin A perhaps best known for keeping our eyesight healthy, but scientists have already found that it also ...

The Music Man

The Music Man, American musical film, released in 1962, that was based on a hit 1957 Broadway show written by Meredith Willson.. Harold Hill (played by Robert Preston) is a charismatic con man who arrives in River City, Iowa, in the summer ...

Robert Preston Remembered (Happy Birthday!)

Robert Preston was born this day, June 8, in 1918, and died in 1987. He is best known for his role as Professor Harold Hill in the Music Man, as seen in this classic clip of Preston singing about "Trouble in River ...