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A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN
Sunday, February 22
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Monday, February 23
12:15
U.S., 1945
Directed by Elia Kazan
Based on Betty Smith’s 1943 novel of the same name
Starring Dorothy McGuire, Joan Blondell, James Dunn, Lloyd Nolan, Peggy Ann Garner
WINNER Academy Awards® – Best Supporting Actor, Academy Juvenile Award, 1944
Approx. 128 min.
A heartfelt adaptation of Betty Smith’s lauded semi-autobiographical novel, starring James Dunn and Peggy Ann Garner, both in Oscar®-winning roles, alongside Dorothy McGuire and Joan Blondell as an impoverished but hopeful Irish-American family scraping by in a turn-of-the-century Williamsburg tenement.
Presented with support from The Ada Katz Fund for Literature in Film
Reviews
“Splendid, sensitive... Perfect in every detail.”
– Leonard Maltin
