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Today, Our Town. Before entering Hollywood, Sam Wood was a real estate broker before a collapse in the market pushed to pursue his side passion of working the burgeoning film industry. Working his way up the ranks from actor to production assistant and assistant director, Wood reached the director’s chair where he soon gained a reputation for bringing projects in on time and under budget; he started out at Paramount Pictures but spent the bulk of the silent and early sound eras at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, where he had his stature rise with the notable successes with A Night at the Opera (1935), A Day at the Races (1937) and Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939), and he even filled in for Victor Fleming during the filming of Gone with the Wind (1939). After his contract with MGM ended, Wood began free-lancing work, starting with the...
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