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    A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

    PG1945 · Drama · 2h 8m

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  2. 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.

  3. Apr 15, 2024 · A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is a coming-of-age novel by Betty Smith that was published in 1943 and is considered to be a classic of children’s literature and American literature. The novel centers on a working-class girl named Francie Nolan growing up in Brooklyn, New York, in the early 20th century.

  4. 64 Photos. Drama Family Romance. Encouraged by her idealistic if luckless father, a bright and imaginative young woman comes of age in a Brooklyn tenement during the early 1900s. Director. Elia Kazan. Writers. Tess Slesinger. Frank Davis. Betty Smith. Stars. Dorothy McGuire. Joan Blondell. James Dunn. See production info at IMDbPro. RENT/BUY.

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    • Elia Kazan
    • PG
    • 2 min
  5. Mar 2, 2024 · March 02, 202410:00 AM. Reading A Tree Grows in Brooklyn in the 1940s. Photo by Weegee (Arthur Fellig)/International Center of Photography/Getty Images. This piece originally appeared in the...

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  6. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn begins on a Saturday afternoon in the summer of 1912 in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, where a tree called the Tree of Heaven grows amidst the tenement houses. Francie Nolan is eleven years old, and she and her brother are collecting junk to exchange for pennies.

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