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Marion Hargrove (1919–2003)

Autore di The Music Man [1962 film]

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Comprende i nomi: Marion Hargove, Hargrove Marion

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Opere di Marion Hargrove

The Music Man [1962 film] (1962) — Screenwriter — 329 copie
See Here, Private Hargrove (1942) 125 copie
Something's got to give (1948) 11 copie
Cash McCall [1960 film] (1959) — Screenwriter — 7 copie

Opere correlate

The Sad Sack (1944) — Introduzione, alcune edizioni74 copie
American Men at Arms (1964) — Collaboratore — 10 copie
World's Great Humorous Stories (1944) — Collaboratore — 9 copie
See Here, Private Hargrove [1944 film] (1944) — Original book — 2 copie

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It's the early 20th-century American Midwest. A con man going by the assumed name Harold Hill has used several different schemes to bilk the unsuspecting, and now travels from town to town pretending to be a professor of music - from the Gary (Indiana) Conservatory of Music, class of '05 - who solves all the respective towns' youth problems by forming boys' marching bands. He takes money from the townsfolk to buy instruments, music, instructional materials, and uniforms for their sons. However, in reality, he has no degree and knows nothing about music, and after all the materials arrive and are distributed, he absconds with all the money, never to be seen again. Many of the traveling salesmen in the territory have been negatively impacted by him, as the townsfolk then become suspicious of any stranger trying to sell them something. For Harold's scheme to work, he must gain the trust of the local music teacher, usually by wooing her, regardless of her appearance. And if the town doesn't believe it has a youth problem needing to be fixed, he will manufacture one for them. That is the case when he arrives in River City, Iowa, population 2,212, where he will have some unexpected help from Marcellus Washburn, a friend and former grifter colleague who now lives in River City and has gone straight, but he still wants to make sure Harold survives his stay in town. River City's music teacher is spinster and town librarian Marian Paroo. He's able to impress all the other River Citizens with his fast-talking sales pitches, but not suspicious Marian, whose hard-as-nails exterior is unlike all the other River Citizens. Her exterior is partly due to her somewhat removed standing in the town, as all the gossipy housewives believe she is a smut peddler - encouraging the teenagers to read authors such as Chaucer and Balzac - and mistakenly believe that she got her position as librarian through less-than-scrupulous means. What Harold does not know is that one way to Marian is through her young adolescent brother, Winthrop Paroo, a sullen boy who has withdrawn from life since their father's death two years before, when he started to lisp. Harold starts to fall for Marian, something that never happened with any of the other music teachers. Further complications may ensue if any of those traveling salesmen who have been following his route through the territory catch up with and expose him.… (altro)
 
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Priscillaoldmovies | Mar 24, 2024 |
USA, North Carolina, Fort Bragg, 1941
Hargrove bliver indrulleret som menig i den amerikanske hær. Menig Edward Thomas Marion Lawton Hargrove Han får lært at indordne sig og giver diverse råd videre. Fx hold munden lukket og lyt. Bogen slutter med at japanerne angriber Pearl Harbour og derfor får trukket USA med ind i krigen. Hargrove var journalist og skrev en klumme i Charlotte News og dette her er stort set bare en samling af 48 af disse skrevet mens han var i træningslejr (med køkkentjeneste som en af de faste ingredienser for hans evner som soldat var ifølge bogen ikke så fremragende). Hans finanser står ikke så stærkt, så han låner penge af sine kammerater, der ligefrem har en Sammenslutning af Hargrove's Kreditorer. Andre menige er Melvig Piel, Jim Hart, Mulvehill, Johnny Lisk, Fred McPhail, Jack Mulligan, Themos Kokenes, Conrad Wilson, Gene Shumate, Joseph G. Gantt.

Svagt morsom soldaterhumor.
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bnielsen | 6 altre recensioni | Feb 29, 2024 |
I've seen the movie, which is hilarious, and am glad to say that the book is just as funny. I only wish it were longer!

It's really nice to read WWII material written before and during, rather than 50-years-later-retrospectives. It gives a better picture of daily experience without the benefit of so much historical perspective. Also, the CO's speech after Pearl Harbor was pretty moving. Well done, Hargrove.
 
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beautifulshell | 6 altre recensioni | Aug 27, 2020 |
When the US was preparing to enter the Second World War, there was an explosion of "army humour." Some of it was warmed-over gags from the Great War, and I suspect some of the wheezes had been used at least as far back as the Civil War. There wasn't a great deal that was fresh. Which was probably why Marion Hargrove's book made the impact it did when it originally came out in 1942. His breezy, conversational style (honed by being on the Charlotte News newspaper) has its charms. This book is, essentially, a collection of columns he did while he was based at Ft. Bragg, also in North Carolina. The quality is a bit variable, but on the whole, it does keep your interest. It is, of course, largely a curio (there's one African-American joke, the only one in there, and it's a bit wince-inducing), and represents a lost and vanished world. Still, it's a decent snapshot of Army life leading up to World War II (the last column deals with the news of Pearl Harbor). Recommended, at least, for war buffs.… (altro)
½
 
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EricCostello | 6 altre recensioni | Feb 17, 2020 |

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