Cast
Many members of the original Broadway cast appear in the film, including Robert Preston, Pert Kelton and The Buffalo Bills.
The film made Robert Preston into an "A" list star in motion pictures, after years of appearing in supporting roles in famous films and in starring roles in "B" movies. Although Preston scored a great success in the original stage version of the show, he was not first choice for the film version, partly because he was not a box office star. Jack L. Warner, who was notorious for wanting to film stage musicals with stars other than the ones who played the roles onstage, wanted Frank Sinatra for the role of Professor Harold Hill, but Meredith Willson insisted upon Preston. Cary Grant was also "begged" by Warner to play Hill but he declined, saying "nobody could do that role as well as Bob Preston".
- Robert Preston as Harold Hill
- Shirley Jones as Marian Paroo
- Buddy Hackett as Marcellus Washburn
- Paul Ford as Mayor George Shinn
- Hermione Gingold as Eulalie Mackechnie Shinn
- Pert Kelton as Mrs. Paroo
- Vern Reed as Jacey Squires
- Al Shea as Ewart Dunlop
- Bill Spangenberg as Olin Britt
- Wayne Ward as Oliver Hix
- Timmy Everett as Tommy Djilas
- Susan Luckey as Zaneeta Shinn
- Ronny Howard as Winthrop Paroo
- Harry Hickox as Charlie Cowell
- Charles Lane as Constable Locke
- Adnia Rice as Alma Hix
- Peggy Mondo as Ethel Toffelmier
- Mary Wickes as Mrs. Squires
- Sara Seegar as Maud Dunlop
- Ronnie Dapo as Norbert Smith
- Jesslyn Fax as Avis Grubb
- Monique Vermont as Amaryllis
- Percy Helton as Train Conductor (uncredited)
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