A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is a 1943 semi-autobiographical novel written by Betty Smith. The manuscript started as a non-fiction piece titled They Lived...
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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...
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn may refer to: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (novel), a 1943 novel by Betty Smith A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945 film), the cinema...
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is a musical with a book by George Abbott and Betty Smith, lyrics by Dorothy Fields, and music by Arthur Schwartz. First produced...
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is a 1974 American made for Television drama film from 20th Century Fox based on the novel. It was produced by Norman Rosemont...
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Betty Smith (category People from Greenpoint, Brooklyn)
bestseller A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. Smith was born Elisabeth Lillian Wehner on December 15, 1896, in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, New York to...
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Ailanthus altissima (redirect from Tree-of-heaven)
al-TIH-sim-ə), commonly known as tree of heaven, Ailanthus, varnish tree, copal tree, stinking sumac, Chinese sumac, paradise tree, or in Chinese as chouchun...
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James Dunn (actor) (section Success in Hollywood)
Kazan for the role of Johnny Nolan, the dreamy alcoholic father in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945), which earned him the Academy Award for Best Supporting...
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Peggy Ann Garner (category Deaths from pancreatic cancer in California)
her body of contributions to film in 1945, particularly in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn and Junior Miss. Featured roles in such films as Black Widow (1954)...
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Ted Donaldson (category Male actors from Brooklyn)
Donaldson was cast in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, which marked the directorial debut of Elia Kazan. Donaldson also starred as Danny Mitchell in the 1940s Rusty...
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neighborhood in New York City, which, in turn, was the most densely populated city in the United States. The novel A Tree Grows in Brooklyn addresses a young...
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Joan Blondell (category All Wikipedia articles written in American English)
time in 14 years in Adventure, which starred Clark Gable and Greer Garson. She was also featured prominently in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945) and Nightmare...
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in the borough. Betty Smith's 1943 book A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, and the 1945 film based on it, are among the best-known early works about life in Brooklyn...
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first directed two short films, but his first feature film was A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945), one of his first attempts to film dramas focused on contemporary...
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Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Cheaper by the Dozen (1948): He took Mother for a ride in his first automobile.... As Dad and Mother, dressed in dusters...
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Mickey Kuhn (section Career as a child star)
appeared in Juarez (1939), A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945), The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946), Red River (1948), Broken Arrow (1950), and A Streetcar...
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Dies at 75: Author of 'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn' Earned Estimated $1 Million on 1943 Book". Los Angeles Times. Jan 18, 1972. p. c4. A.H. WEILER (23 June 1963)...
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List of The New York Times number-one books of 1944 (category 1944 in the United States)
were A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, by Betty Smith and Strange Fruit, by Lillian Smith with respectively 22 and 15 weeks at the top. A "sleeper" success, A Tree...
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Herbert Ross (category Film directors from Brooklyn)
production, the Arthur Schwartz-Dorothy Fields musical adaptation of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1951). For TV he choreographed All Star Revue, The Milton Berle...
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Ruth Nelson (actress) (category Internet Off-Broadway Database person ID not in Wikidata)
stage and film actress. She is known for her roles in films such as Wilson, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Humoresque, 3 Women, The Late Show and Awakenings...
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p. 399 – via Newspapers.com. Martin, Linton (April 1, 1951). "'Tree Grows in Brooklyn' Delights as Musical". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia,...
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popularized in the 1943 novel A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. The tallest and oldest tree in New York City is a tulip poplar growing in Queens named the Queens Giant...
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Dorothy McGuire (category All Wikipedia articles written in American English)
with Young in The Enchanted Cottage (1945), which was a box-office success. At age 28, she played the mother in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945), replacing...
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Marta Becket (category Dance in California)
ballerina. She was in the corps de ballet at Radio City Music Hall and on Broadway she appeared in Show Boat, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn and Wonderful Town...
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Thomas Wolfe (category Tuberculosis deaths in Maryland)
Prize for Biography in 1988. Wolfe inspired the works of many other authors, including Betty Smith with A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Robert Morgan, author...
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American Film Institute Catalog. 2020. Retrieved February 24, 2020. "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)". American Film Institute Catalog. 2020. Retrieved February...
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Edwards in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn in 1945, Mr. McComber in Summer Holiday in 1948, Jack Riker in Winchester '73 in 1950 and Howard Shipley in The Marrying...
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James Gleason (category All Wikipedia articles written in American English)
in the film adaptation of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. In the Frank Capra classic Meet John Doe, he played the cynical, "hard boiled" editor brought in to...
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Mark J.: Brooklyn Tides. The Fall and Rise of a Global Borough (transcript Verlag, 2018) Smith, Betty. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1943) a semi-autobiographical...
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Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor (redirect from Academy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role)
performance in a supporting role in a film released that year. The award is traditionally presented by the previous year's Best Supporting Actress winner. In lieu...
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