A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (film)

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A Tree Grows In Brooklyn
Directed by	Elia Kazan
Produced by	Louis D. Lighton
Written by	Frank Davis Tess Slesinger Betty Smith (novel)
Starring	Dorothy McGuire Peggy Ann Garner Joan Blondell James Dunn Lloyd Nolan
Music by	Jerry Goldsmith
Editing by	Dorothy Spencer
Release date(s)	February 28, 1945
Running time	128 min
Language	English
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A Tree Grows In Brooklyn is a 1945 film, the first film directed by Greek-American director Elia Kazan, starring James Dunn, who won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor, Dorothy McGuire, Joan Blondell, and Peggy Ann Garner.

The film is based on an American novel A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith first published in 1943. It relates the coming-of-age story of its main character, Francie Nolan, against a backdrop of tenement life in Brooklyn, New York, at the turn of the 20th century.

A 1974 made-for-television film, starring Cliff Robertson, Diane Baker, Pamelyn Ferdin and James Olson, was adapted from the 1945 screenplay by Tess Slesinger.

1 Plot
2 Awards and Nominations
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Plot

Dorothy McGuire stars as Katie Nolan, mother of earnest young teenager Francie (Peggy Ann Garner) and streetwise pre-teenage Neeley (Ted Donaldson). McGuire's husband is charming dreamer James Dunn, whose drinking and inability to find steady work condemn his family to poverty. Their free spirited, oft-married Aunt Sissy (Joan Blondell) is an occasional visitor. The story takes place around 1900, in a Brooklyn tenement.

[edit] Awards and Nominations

James Dunn won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor, and the film was also nominated for best Writing, Screenplay for Frank Davis and Tess Slesinger (1946), which was though won by Robert E. Sherwood for The Best Years of Our Lives.

[edit] References

[edit] External links

A Tree Grows In Brooklyn at the Internet Movie Database

v • d • e Films directed by Elia Kazan

1940s	A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945) • The Sea of Grass (1947) • Boomerang! (1947) • Gentleman's Agreement (1947) • Pinky (1949)

1950s	Panic in the Streets (1950) • A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) • Viva Zapata! (1952) • Man on a Tightrope (1953) • On the Waterfront (1954) • East of Eden (1955) • Baby Doll (1956) • A Face in the Crowd (1957)

1960s	Wild River (1960) • Splendor in the Grass (1961) • America, America (1963) • The Arrangement (1969)

1970s	The Visitors (1972) • The Last Tycoon (1976)