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What role did Sam Wood hold in the Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals?
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(Foreground, from left to right) Groucho Marx, Margaret Dumont, Chico Marx, and Harpo Marx in A Night at the Opera (1935), directed by Sam Wood.
Sam Wood was a committed anticommunist who helped found the Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals in 1944. He served as the organization's first president.1