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    The Human Comedy

    1944 · Comedy drama · 1h 58m

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  1. The Human Comedy. 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
  2. The Human Comedy is a 1943 American comedy-drama film directed by Clarence Brown. [3] 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. [4] Howard Estabrook was brought in to reduce the run ...

  3. 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). La Comédie humaine consists of 91 finished works (stories, novels, or ...

  4. 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.

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  5. The Human Comedy, William Saroyan The Human Comedy is a 1943 novel by William Saroyan. The story of The Human Comedy, and the characters Homer and Ulysses in particular, is based on Saroyan's life, living fatherless with his siblings and his mother. Ithaca, California is based on the real town of Fresno, California, Saroyan's hometown.

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  6. Mar 8, 2010 · The idea of The Human Comedy was at first as a dream to me, one of those impossible projects which we caress and then let fly; a chimera that gives us a glimpse of its smiling woman's face, and forthwith spreads its wings and returns to a heavenly realm of phantasy. But this chimera, like many another, has become a reality; has its behests, its ...

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  8. A heartwarming look at family and friendship, "The Human Comedy" is the poignant story of high school student Homer Macauley (Mickey Rooney) and the lives he...

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    • Warner Bros.
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