A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (film)
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| A Tree Grows In Brooklyn | |
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| 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 |
| 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 directed by 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 television series, starring Cliff Robertson and Pamelyn Ferdin, was adapted from the 1945 screenplay by Tess Slesinger.
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Films directed by Elia Kazan |
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945) • The Sea of Grass (1947) • Boomerang! (1947) • Gentleman's Agreement (1947) • Pinky (1949) • 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) • Wild River (1960) • Splendor in the Grass (1961) • America, America (1963) • The Arrangement (1969) • The Visitors (1972) • The Last Tycoon (1976) |
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