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    A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

    PG1945 · Drama · 2h 8m

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  1. 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 ...

  2. 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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    • Elia Kazan
    • PG
    • 2 min
  3. 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: 2...

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  5. Movie Info. 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.

    • (18)
    • Elia Kazan
    • PG
    • Dorothy Mcguire
  6. 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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  8. Summaries. Encouraged by her idealistic if luckless father, a bright and imaginative young woman comes of age in a Brooklyn tenement during the early 1900s. In Brooklyn circa 1900, the Nolans manage to enjoy life on pennies despite great poverty and Papa's alcoholism.

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