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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.
Plot. Homer Macauley is a 14-year-old boy growing up fatherless in the San Joaquin Valley of California during World War II. His oldest brother, Marcus, is off fighting the war, and Homer feels he needs to be the man of the family.
- William Saroyan
- 1943
A film adaptation of William Saroyan's novel about a boy who stays home with his family while his brother fights in World War II. The film features Mickey Rooney, Frank Morgan, James Craig and Marsha Hunt, and won an Oscar for Best Writing.
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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. Balzac’s plan to produce a unified series of books that would comprehend the whole of.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
The Human Comedy takes place in the California town of Ithaca, where fourteen-year-old Homer Macauley is being dragged into adulthood before his time by a world at war. Homer’s father has recently died; Homer is forced to work long hours delivering telegrams to support his family.
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- Hardcover
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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).
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.
