Meredith Willson
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Robert Reiniger Meredith Willson was an American composer, lyricist, and playwright.
Willson in 1961
Willson in 1937
Robert Preston as The Music Man
Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6411 Hollywood Boulevard
The Great Dictator
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The Great Dictator is a 1940 American political satire black comedy film written, directed, produced by, and starring Charlie Chaplin. Having been the only major Hollywood filmmaker to continue to mak
Meredith Willson
…Hollywood. His on-air radio debut came on KFRC in 1928 on Blue Monday Jamboree. Willson's work in many films included the score for Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator (1940) (Academy Award nomination for Best Original Score), and arranging music for the score of William Wyler's The Little Foxes (1941) (Academy Award…
Theatrical release poster
Chaplin as Adenoid Hynkel
Jack Oakie as Benzino Napaloni, Chaplin as Adenoid Hynkel
Costume of Adenoid Hynkel