Magic Town

Newcomer pollster “Rip” Smith (James Stewart), with sidekick (Ned Sparks), claiming they’re just insurance salesmen, intervenes on the town council meeting where he’s overheard Mary (Jane Wyman) advocating for big changes, which could ruin what he believes is the ideal sample American town, in Magic Town, 1947.

First scene for top-billed James Stewart as “Rip” Smith, independent Manhattan opinion pollster whose radical business model is failing, with assistants (Ned Sparks, Donald Meek) and his big shot office building neighbor (Selmer Jackson) dangling a job offer, in Magic Town, 1947, from producer Robert Riskin’s story and screenplay.

“Rip” Smith (James Stewart), a poll-taker posing as an insurance agent in Grandview, which he believes is the perfect model American town, tangles with Jane Wyman as Mary, acting editor of the local paper, who criticized his earlier intrusion on a town meeting, her kid brother (Mickey Roth), dazzled by his hoop skills, interrupting, in Magic Town, 1947.