Preston, Robert 1918-1987

Overview

Works:	484 works in 1,275 publications in 8 languages and 24,552 library holdings
Genres:	Drama Musical films Film adaptations Western films Romance films History Musicals Comedy films Original cast recordings Historical films
Roles:	Actor, Performer, Editor, Author, Singer, Producer, Narrator, Instrumentalist, Costume designer, Speaker, Other, Interviewee, Recipient, Arranger, Host
Classifications:	PN1997, 791.4372

Publication Timeline

Most widely held works about Robert Preston

Ok'l baby dok'l by Inez James( )
Union Pacific( Visual )
Preston, Robert : Actor by Martin Quigley( )
Paramount presents Cecil B. DeMille's Union Pacific : starring Barbara Stanwyck and Joel McCrea, with Akim Tamiroff, Robert Preston, Lynne Overman, Brian Donlevy( Visual )
Robert Preston by Robert Preston( Recording )

Reap the wild wind( Visual )
Papers by Robert Preston( )
North West Mounted Police( Visual )
Best of the badmen( Visual )
Communion to the Trees by Robert Preston( Book )
Cecil B. DeMille's Union Pacific : starring Barbara Stanwyck and Joel McCrea( Visual )
Preston, Robert( )
Even a con man can be nice by George Brich( Visual )
Reap the wild wind( Visual )
Catalogue of important Western and Oriental manuscripts and miniatures comprising the property of Lady Anne Lytton ... Dr. E.G. Millar ... Mrs. David Huxley ... the Hon. Robert Preston ... the Rt. Hon. Lord Nunburnholme ... the Bristol Baptist College and from the collection of Thomas E. Marston ... and including Persian, Mughal and provincial Indian miniatures ... which will be sold by auction by Messrs. Sotheby & Co. ... at their large galleries ... on Monday, the 11th December, 1961 by England) Sotheby & Co. (London( Book )
Lewis Archibald interviews Robert Preston by Robert Preston( )
Theme from "The dark at the top of the stairs" : a Warner Bros. picture by Max Steiner( )
Preston, Robert by Edward P Tobie( )
Gregory Peck makes that Hemingway kind of love to Joan Bennett in "The Macomber Affair" : Also starring Robert Preston( Visual )
Wake Island( Visual )

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Most widely held works by Robert Preston

The music man by Robert Preston( Visual )

51 editions published between 1961 and 2013 in English and Undetermined and held by 2,839 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A con man in the guise of a traveling salesman gets off the train in River City, Iowa. He convinces the town to finance a children's marching band instead of a pool hall

The last starfighter by Nick Castle( Visual )

30 editions published between 1984 and 2016 in English and held by 1,335 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Alex is an 18-year old Earthling who has an extraordinary talent for video game wizardry and conquers the Starfighter game. He is then recruited by alien Centauri to be part of an elite legion of fighters. Leaving behind his trailer park existence, he heads to the outer regions of space. Alex becomes the last hope for the beleaguered Star League and hundreds of worlds, including Earth

How the West was won by Henry Hathaway( Visual )

28 editions published between 1962 and 2014 in English and held by 1,101 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Follows three generations of one family and their struggles in the West

Victor Victoria by Henry Mancini( Visual )

15 editions published between 1982 and 2013 in 4 languages and held by 798 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A woman singer working on the cabaret circuit pretends to be a man pretending to be a woman. Things get even more complicated when she meets the man of her dreams. Set in Paris, France, in 1934

Broadway's lost treasures( Visual )

4 editions published in 2003 in English and held by 691 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A compilation of Broadway song & dance numbers from The Tony Awards, as performed by the original cast members between 1967 and 1986

Mame by Jerry Herman( Visual )

13 editions published between 1974 and 2013 in English and Undetermined and held by 677 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

She'll coax the blues right out of your heart. Madcap Auntie Mame is suddenly her nephew's guardian in this sparkling adaptation of the Broadway hit

This gun for hire by Frank Tuttle( Visual )

26 editions published between 1942 and 2014 in English and French and held by 661 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A hired-gun seeks revenge from a client that betrayed him

Junior Bonner by Sam Peckinpah( Visual )

40 editions published between 1971 and 2017 in 5 languages and held by 649 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"With his bronco-busting career on its last legs, Junior Bonner heads to his hometown to try his luck in the annual rodeo. But his fond childhood memories are shattered when he finds his family torn apart by his greedy brother and hard-drinking father. Now Junior must break the wildest bull in the West to bring his family together for one final moment of cowboy glory."--Container

The music man by Meredith Willson( Recording )

25 editions published between 1958 and 2003 in 3 languages and held by 497 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Overture / Rock Island (5:27) -- Iowa stubborn (1:57) -- Ya got trouble (3:46) -- Piano lesson (1:56) -- Goodnight my someone (2:43) -- Seventy-six trombones (3:00) -- Sincere (1:38) -- The sadder but wiser girl for me (1:40) -- Pick-a-little, talk-a-little (1:55) -- Goodnight ladies / Marian the librarian (2:42) -- My white knight (3:01) -- Wells Fargo wagon (2:11) -- It's you (1:23) -- Shipoopi (2:10) -- Lida Rose / Will I ever tell you? (4:13) -- Gary, Indiana (1:24) -- Till there was you (2:44) -- Finale (2:16)

I do! I do! : the original Broadway cast recording by Harvey Schmidt( Recording )

8 editions published between 1966 and 1989 in English and held by 478 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

20 great westerns : heroes & bandits( Visual )

4 editions published between 2008 and 2009 in English and held by 448 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Contains some of the greatest western films and legendary stars of the 20th Century

Meredith Willson's The music man : original soundtrack by Meredith Willson( Recording )

3 editions published between 1988 and 1993 in English and held by 444 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The man that corrupted Hadleyburg by Mark Twain( Visual )

18 editions published between 1980 and 2005 in English and held by 440 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Hadleyburg, a small town in America, has a reputation for unshakable honesty, that is, until a stranger comes to town and plots a revenge on the hypocritical residents by promising a fortune to a citizen who once showed him charity many years before. One by one the leading citizens scheme for the money

Meredith Willson's The music man : original Broadway cast by Meredith Willson( Recording )

15 editions published between 1958 and 1990 in English and held by 439 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"Professor" Harold Hill is a con man who comes to River City, IA, in the weeks just prior to the 1912 Fourth of July celebration. Persuading the town that the youth of River City is in great danger of being corrupted, Hill convinces them that their need to organization a boy's band, with himself as a leader. Hill promises to teach the kids how to make music by utilizing his revolutionary "Think System." There's only one problem: the professor doesn't know one note from another

Beau Geste by William Wellman( Visual )

22 editions published between 1939 and 2011 in 4 languages and held by 423 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Three brothers join the French Foreign Legion to escape a dark past. But their troubles are quickly forgotten as their courage, duty and devotion is put to the test when they are forced to fight against all odds

Meredith Willson's The Music man by Meredith Willson( Visual )

11 editions published between 1961 and 2000 in English and Undetermined and held by 395 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Silver-tongued con artist Harold Hill hoodwinks the stubborn townsfolk of River City, Iowa into buying instruments and uniforms for a boy's band, but his game ultimately--and romantically--backfires

The music man : original Broadway cast recording by Meredith Willson( Recording )

5 editions published in 1992 in English and held by 392 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Mark Twain's The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg( Visual )

10 editions published between 1980 and 2005 in English and held by 389 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Based on one of Mark Twain's best known short stories. A mysterious stranger who was slighted by the people of Hadleyburg reappears to disprove the town's reputation

Space weapons Earth wars by Robert Preston( )

3 editions published in 2002 in English and held by 367 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

This overview aims to inform the public discussion of space-based weapons by examining their characteristics, potential attributes, limitations, legality, and utility. The authors do not argue for or against space weapons, nor do they estimate the potential costs and performance of specific programs, but instead sort through the realities and myths surrounding space weapons in order to ensure that debates and discussions are based on fact

Tulsa by Stuart Heisler( Visual )

53 editions published between 1940 and 2017 in 4 languages and held by 359 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

During the 1920's, the mad rush for oil changed Tulsa from a sleepy plains town to a bustling metropolis. Cherokee Lansing, a beautiful cattleman's daughter, loses her father in a freak oil mining accident. Determined to save her ranch, she attempts to single-handedly challenge a powerful oil mogul, only to become one herself

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