- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (film)
Infobox_Film
name = A Tree Grows In Brooklyn
imdb_id = 0038190
writer = Frank DavisTess Slesinger Betty Smith (novel)
starring =Dorothy McGuire Peggy Ann Garner Joan Blondell
James DunnLloyd Nolan
director =Elia Kazan
editing =Dorothy Spencer
producer =Louis D. Lighton
music =Jerry Goldsmith
distributor =
released =February 28 ,1945
runtime = 128 min
language = English
budget ="A Tree Grows In Brooklyn" is a 1945
film , the first film directed by Greek-American directorElia Kazan , starring James Dunn, who won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor,Dorothy McGuire ,Joan Blondell , andPeggy Ann Garner .The film is based on an American
novel A Tree Grows in Brooklyn byBetty Smith first published in 1943. It relates the coming-of-age story of its main character, Francie Nolan, against a backdrop oftenement life inBrooklyn ,New York , at the turn of the 20th century.A 1974 made-for-television film, starring
Cliff Robertson ,Diane Baker ,Pamelyn Ferdin and James Olson, was adapted from the 1945screenplay byTess Slesinger .Plot
Dorothy McGuire stars as Katie Nolan, mother of earnest young teenager Francie (Peggy Ann Garner ) and streetwise pre-teenage Neeley (Ted Donaldson ). McGuire's husband is charming dreamerJames Dunn , whose drinking and inability to find steady work condemn his family to poverty. Their free spirited, oft-married Aunt Sissy (Joan Blondell ) is an occasional visitor. The story takes place around 1900, in a Brooklyn tenement.Because the book is lengthy and takes place from before Francie is born till after she is 16 years old, the movie concentrates on Francie as a teenager 14 - 15.
Also one of Katie's sisters is eliminated and her qualities and quotes from the book are giving to Sissy, somewhat toning down her character. Other characters like Francies school teacher are changed to protaganists to ease the transition to film
Awards and Nominations
James Dunn won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor, and the film was also nominated for best Writing, Screenplay forFrank Davis andTess Slesinger (1946), which was though won byRobert E. Sherwood forThe Best Years of Our Lives .References
External links
*imdb title|id=0038190|title=A Tree Grows In Brooklyn
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