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Adapted by Tess Slesinger and Frank Davis from the 1943 novel by Betty Smith, the film focuses on an impoverished but aspirational, second-generation Irish-American family living in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, in the early 20th century.
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn: Directed by Elia Kazan. With Dorothy McGuire, Peggy Ann Garner, Joan Blondell, James Dunn. Encouraged by her idealistic if luckless father, a bright and imaginative young woman comes of age in a Brooklyn tenement during the early 1900s.
- (8.5K)
- Drama, Family, Romance
- Elia Kazan
- 1945-03
May 15, 2020 · This movie features Francie Nolan, a young girl, who vows to make it big in life, with the help of her devoted mother and alcoholic father. Initial release: 28 February 1945 (USA) ...more.
- 129 min
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. This adaptation of the classic novel tells the story of young Francie Nolan (Peggy Ann Garner) who yearns for life beyond her Brooklyn apartment building. While...
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- Elia Kazan
- PG
- Dorothy Mcguire
Based on the book by Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945) tells the story of a turn-of-the-century family living in Brooklyn's Williamsburg neighborhood, battling poverty alongside the charismatic patriarch's alcoholism and impracticality. In this, Elia Kazan's first picture, his career-long ability to rend powerful performances from ...
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In pre-WWI Brooklyn, young Francie struggles to keep her idealism alive in the face of grinding poverty and the comedies and tragedies of ordinary life. Very close to the spirit of the Betty Smith novel.