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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.
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 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
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Human Comedy, The - (Original Trailer) A smalltown telegraph boy deals with the strains of growing up during World War II in The Human Comedy (1943), directed by Clarence Brown and starring Mickey Rooney and Frank Morgan.
- Clarence Brown, Hugh Boswell
- Mickey Rooney
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. William Saroyan. 4.02. 6,115 ratings656 reviews. The place is Ithaca, in California's San Joaquin Valley. The time is World War II. The family is the Macauleys -- a mother, sister, and three brothers whose struggles and dreams reflect those of America's second-generation immigrants..
Two years after his death, his second-eldest son Homer is the de facto head of the family, as eldest son Marcus being in the army. Teenage Homer has to look after his mother Kate, elder sister Bess, adolescent brother Ulysses, and Mary Arena, their next-door neighbor who is Marcus' girlfriend.
