One-time movie song-and-dance man James Dunn won an Academy Award for his comeback performance in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. Based on the best-selling novel by B...
One-time movie song-and-dance man James Dunn won an Academy Award for his comeback performance in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. Based on the best-selling novel by Betty Smith, the film relates the trials and tribulations of a turn-of-the-century Brooklyn tenement family. The father, Dunn, is a likable but irresponsible alcoholic whose dreams of improving his family's lot are invariably doomed to disappointment.
The story is told from the point of view of daughter Peggy Ann Garner, a clear-eyed realist who nonetheless would like to believe in her pie-in-the-sky father, whom she dearly loves. Joan Blondell co-stars as the family's brash, freewheeling aunt, whose means of financial support is a never-ending source of neighborhood gossip. This first film directorial effort of Elia Kazan earned a special Oscar for Most Promising Juvenile Performer Peggy Ann Garner.
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