Margin for Error

Name: Margin for Error
Author: Clare Boothe Luce

Play by Clare Boothe Luce

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Author: Clare Boothe Luce
Language: English
Genre: satire

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Margin for Error is a two-act play written in 1939 by Clare Boothe Luce. It is a satire of Nazism, and was staged on Broadway shortly after World War II began in Europe. The plot is a whodunit about the murder of a German consul in the United States. The play was adapted as a movie of the same name in 1943.

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MMargin for Error1943 · 1943 film by Otto Preminger

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Date of first performance: November 3, 1939
Location of first performance: Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre
Country of origin: United States
Form of creative work: play

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