Carousel

In a Maine coastal village toward the end of the 19th century, the swaggering, carefree carnival barker, Billy Bigelow, captivates and marries the naive millworker, Julie Jordan. Billy loses his job just as he learns that Julie is pregnant and, desperately intent upon providing a decent life for his family, he is coerced into being an accomplice to a robbery. Caught in the act and facing the certainty of prison, he takes his own life and is sent 'up there.' Billy is allowed to return to earth for one day fifteen years later, and he encounters the daughter he never knew. She is a lonely, friendless teenager, her father's reputation as a thief and bully having haunted her throughout her young life. How Billy instills in both the child and her mother a sense of hope and dignity is a dramatic testimony to the power of love.

Cast

Robert Goulet

Robert Goulet

as Billy Bigelow

Mary Grover

Mary Grover

as Julie Jordan

Pernell Roberts

Pernell Roberts

as Jigger Craigin

Marlyn Mason

Marlyn Mason

as Carrie Pipperidge

Charles Ruggles

Charles Ruggles

as The Starkeeper / Dr. Selden

Michael F. Blake

Michael F. Blake

as (as Michael Blake)

Jack DeLon

Jack DeLon

as Mr. Snow

Linda Moulton Howe

Linda Moulton Howe

as Louise

Patricia Neway

Patricia Neway

as Cousin Nettie (Nettie Fowler)

Marge Redmond

Marge Redmond

as Mrs. Mullin

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