Deseret News | Actor Harve Presnell dies of cancer at 75

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Actor Harve Presnell dies of cancer at 75

performed locally too | 6:52 p.m. July 1, 2009

Harve Presnell played Brigham Young at BYU in 1976 at the Marriott Center. As a dancer in that production it was fun to have him share his talent with us.

rightascension | 10:03 a.m. July 3, 2009

Brigham! with an exclamation point yet was the name of that live stage production written as part of BYU's centennial celebration. Anybody in the reading audience see that production and can comment on it and Presnell's performance?

rightascension | 10:05 a.m. July 3, 2009

My first memory of Presnell was seeing him in the Paramount Theater in Provo in the 1964 film version of The Unsinkable Molly Brown. We had to see it because MGM did the second unit filming near Montrose, Colorado, my mother's home town. He looked great singing in front of the Black Canyon of the Gunnison (twice) and singing in front of the San Juan Range near Telluride, Colorado. Some of the fleeting shots of Leadville Colorado were in fact Telluride in its last days as a mining ghost town.

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In this 1969 file photo, Harve Presnell is shown at the premiere of "Paint Your Wagon," in New York. Presnell, 75, whose booming baritone graced such Broadway musicals as "The Unsinkable Molly Brown" and "Annie," died Tuesday, June 30, 2009, of pancreatic cancer at St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica, Calif., according to Presnell's agent, Gregg Klein.