![]() ![]() Saroyan (the son of Armenian immigrants) shared this vision, for he had risen to national prominence in mid-Depression America as a chronicler of human abilities in the face of oppression. ![]() distinction as a filmmaker was his vision of small-town America-as in the Andy Hardy movies with Mickey Rooney Rooney, Mickey. ![]() ![]() In the process, he learned that film producer Louis B. Saroyan gave himself a crash course in film technique by watching as many movies as he could. In late 1941, Freed lured Saroyan into working at MGM in return for an office and $300 per week for expenses in the hope that Saroyan could produce and direct a story for MGM. 1939), William Saroyan caught the attention of Arthur Freed Freed, Arthur, the head of production for the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) studios. 1939) and the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Time of Your Life (pr., pb. Through stories such as “The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze” (1934) and plays like My Heart’s In The Highlands (pr., pb. A tale of family life during the uncertainties of the war years, the novel has an infectious message of hope that prompted Hollywood to produce what would become an Academy Award-winning film of the same name. William Saroyan’s novel The Human Comedy offered the heartwarming tale of a fatherless fourteen-year-old boy, Homer Macauley, who feels compelled to be take care of his family while his older brother serves at war. ![]()
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