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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.
In 1944, the American director Sam Wood helped found the Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals, a watchdog organization for which he served as the first president.1
Wood was a staunch anticommunist who later testified against various figures in the film industry before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1947. His commitment to these political views was so profound that he included a provision in his will requiring his heirs, with the exception of his wife, to sign a loyalty oath to the United States to receive their inheritance.1