Magic Town is the name of a 1947 comedy film directed by William A. Wellman, starring James Stewart and Jane Wyman. 1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1947 calendar). ... Comedy has a classical meaning (comical theatre) and a popular one (the use of humour with an intent to provoke laughter in general). ... Film is a term that encompasses motion pictures as individual projects, as well as the field in general. ... William Augustus Wellman (February 29, 1896 - December 9, 1975) was an American movie director. ... James Maitland Jimmy Stewart (May 20, 1908 – July 2, 1997) was an iconic, Academy Award-winning American film and stage actor, best known for his homebred screen persona. ... Jane Wyman Jane Wyman (born January 4, 1914, though some sources have indicated that she may have been born January 5, 1917) is an Academy Award-winning, Golden Globe-winning and Emmy-nominated American actress best known for playing disabled characters such as Belinda MacDonald in Johnny Belinda and Helen...

It is remarkable as one of the first films about then-new science of public opinion polling. The movie was inspired by Middletown studies. Opinion polls are surveys of opinion using sampling. ... The Middletown studies refer to a classic sociological case study of a city in Indiana, as contained in two books by Robert Staughton Lynd and Helen Merrell Lynd: Middletown: A Study in Modern American Culture, published in 1929. ...

Lawrence 'Rip' Smith (played by James Stewart) and his assistants are pollsters, and Stewart believes there is a perfect community in the middle of United States that can be used for polling its citizens. He has finally found a town where the percentages of the opinions of the citizens perfectly mirror those of the American people as a whole. Stewart goes to the town and sets up undercover with the intention of using the citizens as his poling guinea pigs, but he gets involved with town inhabitants. When his plans are revealed, the town goes crazy. Their sudden unofficial power goes to their heads, and instead of giving the sensible polling answers to questions they give outlandish ones. This causes the crash of their reputation and failure of Smith's plan. James Stewart is the name of: // Actors James Stewart (actor) (1908–1997), Hollywood movie star, widely known as Jimmy Stewart. ... Binomial name Cavia porcellus (Linnaeus, 1758) Guinea pigs (also called cavies) are rodents belonging to the family Caviidae and the genus Cavia, originally indigenous to the Andes. ...

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