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Sam Wood
(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.
The American director Sam Wood died on September 22, 1949, in Los Angeles, California. He suffered a fatal heart attack shortly before the release of his final film, Ambush (1950).12