Traveling con artist Harold Hill targets the naïve residents of a small town in 1910s Iowa by posing as a boys' bandleader to raise money before he can skip town.

Robert Preston
as Harold Hill

Shirley Jones
as Marian Paroo

Buddy Hackett
as Marcellus Washburn

Ron Howard
as Winthrop Paroo

Hermione Gingold
as Eulalie Mackechnie Shinn

Paul Ford
as Mayor George Shinn

Pert Kelton
as Mrs. Paroo

Timmy Everett
as Tommy Djilas

Susan Luckey
as Zaneeta Shinn

Peggy Mondo
as Ethel