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Lakeshore Classic Movies
Our Town (1940)
Season 2023
Episode 57
Film adaptation of Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning play covers the lives and events of two families in the village of Grover’s Corners. George (William Holden) and Emily (Martha Scott) meet as teenagers and succumb to adolescent affections before maturing, marrying, and bearing a child of their own.
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