Sitting Pretty (1948 film)
1948
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Academy Award Actor in a Supporting Role 1946 · Winner
Academy Award Writing (Screenplay) 1946 · Nominated
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- How many awards has A Tree Grows in Brooklyn won? 4 awards How many awards has A Tree Grows in Brooklyn been nominated for? 5 nominations
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Academy Awards, USA. 1946 Winner Oscar. Best Actor in a Supporting Role. James Dunn. 1946 Nominee Oscar. Best Writing, Screenplay.
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is a 1945 American drama film that marked the debut of Elia Kazan as a dramatic film director. 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 ...
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.
- Betty Smith
- 1943
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.
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- Drama, Family, Romance
- Elia Kazan
- 1945-03
Drama An outstanding film version of Betty Smith's novel about the hardships facing an Irish family living in a turn-of-the-century Brooklyn tenement. McGuire is splendid as the mother, with an Oscar-winning performance by Dunn as her alcoholic husband.
The beloved American classic about a young girl's coming-of-age at the turn of the century, Betty Smith's A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is a poignant and moving tale filled with compassion and cruelty, laughter and heartache, crowded with life and people and incident.
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith sold nearly 3 million copies in the two years after it was first published by Harper & Brothers, earning its author an unprecedented $95,805.76 and inaugurating a career that led to the publication of three additional novels. Smith was inundated with fan mail and became a popular public speaker.
