TV series · 1980
The Dream Merchants
First aired 12 May 1980 Drama TMDB ↗
This star-laden adaptation of Harold Robbins' best-selling 1949 novel about the birth of the movies features Mark Harmon as a drifter who comes under the wing of visionary nickelodeon operator Vincent Gardenia and goes on to become a pioneer in the incipient film business, facing the good times and the bad over a 20-year period.
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Eve Arden
as Coralee
Red Buttons
as Bruce Benson
Vincent Gardenia
as Peter Kessler
Kaye Ballard
as Esther Kessler
Carolyn Jones
as Vera
Robert Culp
as Henry Farnum
Robert Goulet
as Craig Warren
David Groh
as Rocco Salvatore
Mark Harmon
as Johnny Edge
Brianne Leary
as Doris Kessler
