High Noon Actress, Score, and Cinematography-Black and White). The award-winning score was written by Russian-born composer Dimitri Tiomkin. "High Noon" was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" in 1989, the NFR's first year of existence. In Hadleyville, a small town in New Mexico Territory, Marshal Will Kane (Cooper), newly married to Amy Fowler (Grace Kelly), prepares to retire. The happy couple will soon depart for a new life to raise a family and run a store in another town. However, word arrives that Frank Miller (Ian MacDonald),
Noon (play) and, in the final play, even poetic...The whole program...is something of an excercise [sic?] in skim-skating over the thin ice of good taste... McNally is much, much funnier..." than his last play, "Witness". The play received two 1969 Tony Award nominations: Best Actress in a Play (Charlotte Rae) and Best Costume Design (Michael Annals). "Terrence McNally : 15 short plays", Terrence McNally, Smith and Kraus, Lyme, NH, c1994, Noon (play) Noon is a one-act play by Terrence McNally. It constitutes the second segment of the trilogy "Morning, Noon and Night", which premiered on Broadway in 1968. "Morning, Noon and Night"