Other Titles • Our Town • Unsere kleine Stadt (1947)
Synopses for Our Town (1940)
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Noted essayist Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play OUR TOWN is widely regarded as one of the highlights of American theater. Wilder was consulted throughout preproduction, and the result is a depiction so true that viewers might feel for a short while as if they are residents of the small town depicted, which was the precise intent of Wilder.
Frank Craven, who played the stage manager in the Broadway version, sparkles as the talkative town pharmacist who narrates the action, stitching together a folksy, nostalgic, bittersweet tapestry of humor, love, and life.
OUR TOWN covers the lives and events of two families in a woodsy New Hampshire village from the year 1900 through 1913. William Holden and Martha Scott, both reprising their roles from the Broadway production, meet as teenagers and succumb to adolescent affections before maturing, marrying, and bearing a child of their own. Throughout, the film hammers home its message about the preciousness of time in people's short lives.
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Their love affair was the talk of the town.
Meet the citizens of Grover's Corner, a small New Hampshire town, as they face the large and small questions of life. This classic film adaptation of Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize winning drama stars a young William Holden (Sunset Boulevard) and Martha Scott, who was nominated for an Oscar for this, her first film. Our Town earned six Academy Award nominations, including best picture; and it features the superb performance of Thomas Mitchell, who had won an Oscar for his work on Stagecoach just the previous year. -Jennifer Krouse
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"Their Love Affair Was The Talk Of Our Town!"
Our Town is the classic film based on Thornton Wilder's Pultizer Prize winning play about a small New England town fraught with human drama, family conflict, marriage, life and death.
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