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
Editing by Dorothy Spencer
Release date(s) February 28, 1945
Running time 128 min
Language English
IMDb profile

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

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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