• 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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  • Arthur Schwartz. First produced in 1951, the musical is based on Smith's autobiographical novel A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1943), but when Shirley Booth...
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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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    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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    coming-out film Pariah. One iconic Brooklyn film is 1945's A Tree Grows In Brooklyn, based on Betty Smith's novel of the same name. It was the first film...
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  • the novel A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, as well as the 1945 film and 1951 Broadway musical adaptations Francie Stevens, in the 1955 movie To Catch a Thief...
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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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  • film Requiem for a Heavyweight. Cf. play The Importance of Being Earnest. Cf. book Good-Bye to All That. Cf. novel A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. Cf. song "Alone...
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    al-TIH-sim-ə), commonly known as tree of heaven, ghetto palm, Ailanthus, varnish tree, copal tree, stinking sumac, Chinese sumac, paradise tree, or in Chinese...
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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...
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  • at the Brooklyn Navy Yard as a machinist during World War II. The Los Angeles Review of Books, comparing Egan's novel to A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, wrote...
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    Tree is a large Christmas tree placed annually at Rockefeller Center, in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, United States. The tree is put in place in...
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  • up in Corona, Queens close to one of the first Sunni masjids in NYC. She says the first book that made an impact on her is A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. She...
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  • Babes in Arms (1939) Pinocchio (1940) Little Men (1940) Bambi (1942) The Human Comedy (1943) Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)...
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  • based on the 1963 novel by Betty Smith, who had written A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. Joy in the Morning, Smith's fourth, and last, novel, was based on her...
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  • Bugs looks at the book and sees that it is the novel A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. Bugs says to himself, in a rare quiet and reflective moment, "Ya know, maybe...
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  • Künstlerroman (category Novels about artists)
    Aspidistra Flying 1939 John Fante's Ask the Dust 1943 Betty Smith's A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1945 Richard Wright's Black Boy 1946 Philip Larkin's Jill 1947...
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    opportunity to work in a public reading of a musical version of the novel The Outsiders directed by Arthur Allan Seidelman. While working on One Tree Hill she continued...
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    Tess Slesinger (category Deaths from cancer in California)
    The Good Earth (1937) and, at the end of her life, she adapted A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1946) with Davis, which won them an Oscar nomination for Best...
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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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    Alan Zweibel (category Comedians from Brooklyn)
    North (1984) Bunny Bunny: Gilda Radner – A Sort of Love Story (1994) The Other Shulman: A Novel (2007) Our Tree Named Steve (2007) Clothing Optional: And...
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  • A Tree Grows in Brooklyn., which was based more on the 1945 screen adaption than the original novel. The new show did a two week tryout in Philadelphia...
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  • du Salador, in Raymond E Feist 's The Riftwar Cycle Annie Laurie McShane, called Laurie in Betty Smith's novel A Tree Grows in Brooklyn J. Laurie Snell...
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    Brownsville is a residential neighborhood in eastern Brooklyn in New York City. The neighborhood is generally bordered by Crown Heights to the northwest;...
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    Clinton Hill is a neighborhood in north-central Brooklyn, a borough of New York City. It is bordered by the Brooklyn Navy Yard and Flushing Avenue to the...
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    the Paramount At the Fifty-fifth Street 'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn,' Film Version of Betty Smith's Novel, With a Uniformly Fine Cast, Opens at the Roxy"...
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    Hanami (category Festivals in Japan)
    subhirtella, Edo higan), a wild species, grows slowly, but has the longest life span among cherry trees and is easy to grow into large trees. For this reason...
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