A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)

Directors

Elia Kazan

Cast

Dorothy McGuire, James Dunn, Peggy Ann Garner, Joan Blondell, Lloyd Nolan, James Gleason, Ted Donaldson, Ruth Nelson, John Alexander

The story

thumb|left|James Dunn and Peggy Ann Garner in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn The Nolans are a family living in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn in 1912. Katie is a hard-working, German American housewife who scrubs the floors of her tenement building and collects rags to sell to a scrap fabric dealer in order to provide for her family. She's married to Johnny, a happy-go-lucky, charming Irish American who means well, but dreams his way through life.

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