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The Human Comedy is a 1943 novel by William Saroyan. It originated as a 240-page film script written for MGM. Saroyan was planning to produce and direct the film, but he was dropped from the project either because the script was too long or because a short film he directed as a test was not considered acceptable — or both. [1]
- William Saroyan
- 1943
The Human Comedy is a 1943 American comedy-drama film directed by Clarence Brown. It began as a screenplay by William Saroyan, who was expected to direct. After Saroyan was removed from the project, he wrote the novel of the same name and published it just before the film was released.
La Comédie humaine (French: [la kɔmedi ymɛn]; English: The Human Comedy) is Honoré de Balzac's 1829–48 multi-volume collection of interlinked novels and stories depicting French society in the period of the Restoration (1815–30) and the July Monarchy (1830–48).
The Human Comedy: Directed by Clarence Brown. With Mickey Rooney, Frank Morgan, James Craig, Marsha Hunt. Teenager Homer Macauley stays at home in small-town Ithaca to support his family while his older brother Marcus prepares to go to war.
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- Comedy, Drama, Family
- Clarence Brown
- 1944-02-14
The Human Comedy, a vast series of some 90 novels and novellas by Honoré de Balzac, known in the original French as La Comédie humaine. The books that made up the series were published between 1829 and 1847.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
May 18, 2011 · The Human Comedy, sentimental novel of life in a small California town by William Saroyan, published in 1943. The narrator of the story, 14-year-old Homer Macauley, lives with his widowed mother, his sister Bess, and his little brother Ulysses; his older brother has left home to fight in World War.
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The Human Comedy tells the story of Homer Macaulay, 14 year old man of the family now that his brother Marcus has gone into the Army to serve the government in WWII. Homer was able to get a job as a telegraph messenger, even though he was two years too young for the job.
