A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)

In Brooklyn circa 1900, the Nolans manage to enjoy life on pennies despite great poverty and Papa’s alcoholism. We come to know these people well through big and little troubles: Aunt Sissy’s scandalous succession of “husbands”; the removal of the one tree visible from their tenement; and young Francie’s desire to transfer to a better school…if irresponsible Papa can get his act together.
Elia Kazan, Saul Wurtzel
Dorothy McGuire, Joan Blondell, James Dunn, Lloyd Nolan, James Gleason, Ted Donaldson, Peggy Ann Garner, Ruth Nelson, John Alexander, B.S. Pully, Ferike Boros, Virginia Brissac, Lillian Bronson, Adeline De Walt Reynolds, Charles Halton, Harry Harvey Jr., J. Farrell MacDonald, Mae Marsh, Nicholas Ray, Erskine Sanford, Gloria Talbott
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