Dorothy McGuire
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She reached the height of her success at the age of 12 in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945), winning an Academy Juvenile Award largely for this performance. In the same year, she showed she could handle comedy by giving a fine performance in Junior Miss (also 1945). In 1947, Garner appeared as herself in a promotional trailer for Miracle on 34th ...
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is a 1943 semi-autobiographical novel written by Betty Smith. The manuscript started as a non-fiction piece titled They Lived in Brooklyn, which Smith began submitting to publishers in 1940. After it was repeatedly rejected, she sent it in as an entry for a contest held by Harper & Brothers in 1942. At the editors ...
- Betty Smith
- 1943
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn: Directed by Elia Kazan. With Dorothy McGuire, Joan Blondell, James Dunn, Lloyd Nolan. Encouraged by her idealistic if luckless father, a bright and imaginative young woman comes of age in a Brooklyn tenement during the early 1900s.
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- Drama, Family, Romance
- Elia Kazan
- 1945-03
Peggy was cast in several films before gaining fame as Francie Nolan in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945). After years of separation and estrangement, her parents were divorced in 1947. Peggy, who had a falling out with her mother, went to court to have her father appointed as her guardian.
- January 1, 1
- Canton, Ohio, USA
- January 1, 1
- Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA
The film focuses on the time when Francie is around 13 years old. James Dunn and Peggy Ann Garner in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. Katie Nolan is a hard-working housewife who scrubs the floors of her tenement building and collects rags for sale to a scrap fabric dealer in order to provide for her family.
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Peggy was cast in several films before gaining fame as Francie Nolan in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945). After years of separation and estrangement, her parents were divorced in 1947. Peggy, who had a falling out with her mother, went to court to have her father appointed as her guardian.
Oct 19, 1984 · Peggy Ann Garner, a former child actress who won a special Academy Award as a teen-ager for her role as Francie Nolan in ''A Tree Grows in Brooklyn,'' has died at age 53. Miss Garner...
