Main Street to Broadway is a 1953 light dramacomedy by independent producer Lester Cowan, his final credit, in collaboration with The Council of the Living Theatre, which provided tieup with the Broadway names. Release was by MGM. The backstage story features Tom Morton, as an aspiring playwright who hopes to stage a Broadway production, Mary Murphy, as a young lady from Indiana, and Herb Shriner, TV and radio humorist, in a rare acting role as a hardware store owner.
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