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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)

Name: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Director: Elia Kazan
Genre: drama film
Rating: 8

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 of the same name 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. Peggy Ann Garner…

Directed by Elia Kazan · Shot by Leon Shamroy · Cut by Dorothy Spencer · Music by Alfred Newman

Elsewhere

More by Elia Kazan

People of the Cumberland — 1937
Gentleman's Agreement — 1947
The Sea of Grass — 1947
Boomerang — 1947
Panic in the Streets — 1950
Pinky — 1950
A Streetcar Named Desire — 1951
Viva Zapata! — 1952
Man on a Tightrope — 1953
On the Waterfront — 1954
East of Eden — 1955
Baby Doll — 1956
A Face in the Crowd — 1957
Wild River — 1960
Splendor in the Grass — 1961
America America — 1963
The Arrangement — 1969
The Visitors — 1972
Whether To Tell The Truth — 1972
The Last Tycoon — 1976

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