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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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    • Drama, Family, Romance
    • Elia Kazan
    • 1945-03
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  4. 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 ...

  5. the scene in a tenement window in turn-of-the-century Brooklyn in which improvident Irish singing waiter Johnny Nolan (Oscar-winning James Dunn) told his young 13 year-old daughter Francie (Special Oscar-winning Peggy Ann Garner) that she needn't worry that the neighbors had killed a tree nearby, with an optimistic tone: ("They didn't kill it ...

  6. On Christmas Eve, Miss McDonough encourages Francie to become a writer, and after class is over, Francie and Neeley obtain a leftover tree from a Christmas tree vendor. The children carry their prize home, and the Nolans are joined by Steve and Sissy, whose pregnancy has reconciled her with Katie.

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  8. Directed by Elia Kazan. Each heart-warming character comes alive on the screen! In Brooklyn circa 1900, the Nolans manage to enjoy life on pennies despite great poverty and Papa’s alcoholism.

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