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Which Thornton Wilder play was adapted into Sam Woodâs film Our Town?
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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 Woodâs 1940 film Our Town was an adaptation of the 1938 play of the same name by Thornton Wilder. The original work is a classic drama that depicts small-town American life in Groverâs Corners, New Hampshire, and famously features a narrator known as the Stage Manager.412