🎥 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - 1945 - Dorothy McGuire - 🎥 FULL MOVIE

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James Dunn and Peggy Ann Garner in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Katie Nolan is a hard-working housewife who scrubs the floors of her tenement building and collects rags for sale to a scrap fabric dealer in order to provide for her family.

She's married to Johnny Nolan, a happy-go-lucky, charming man who means well, but dreams his way through life, rather than find steady employment - he's an alcoholic.

On the rare occasions, he finds work as a singing waiter, everything he earns usually ends up in his drinking, much to Katie's despair. The couple has two children: 13-year-old Francie, who idolizes her father; and 12-year-old Neeley.

Tense and frustrated, Katie is often sharper with the children than she means to be, while Johnny is gentle, generous, and indulgent, especially with Francie.

Katie's sister, Sissy, is a sassy, free-spirited woman who has recently married for the third time. Katie learns this from gossipy insurance agent Mr Barker when he comes by to collect the Nolans' weekly premium.

Scandalised and embarrassed, Katie cuts off her relationship with Sissy, which makes the children, who love their unconventional aunt, unhappy.

Francie is also worried that the building's landlord has cut too many branches off the tree in the tenement's courtyard, which Francie and her father call the Tree of Heaven, and that it may die. But when she points this out to Johnny, he explains that cutting back is necessary and the tree will grow again.

In the meantime, a police officer new to the neighbourhood, Officer McShane, encounters Sissy and the children one afternoon. When he meets Katie, he is enchanted. A few days later, however, he learns Johnny (drunk after an argument with his wife) is Katie's husband, and is devastated to realise Katie is married.

The children's grandmother Rommely often tells them about her immigration to the United States, and how important education is in life.

While Neeley isn't interested in books and school, Francie is a bright child who is always reading, thinking about what she reads and observes, and eager to learn. One Sunday, Francie persuades her father to go for a walk and shows him a nicer school in a nearby neighbourhood which she'd like to attend. She helps her father write a letter to the principal requesting a transfer and is accepted.

Meanwhile, Katie moves the family into a smaller, cheaper apartment on the top floor, angering her husband who thinks she is being stingy. In fact, Katie is pregnant and worried how they will support another child. Sissy also becomes pregnant, and she and Katie reconcile shortly before Christmas. The families celebrate a happy, poignant Christmas together, with the children bringing home a discarded tree, and later that night, Katie tells Johnny she is pregnant. She suggests that Francie drop out of school to work. Since Johnny understands how much being in school means to his daughter, he feels desperate to find a job. Despite the fact that it's snowing hard, Johnny goes out determined to find work but fails to return.

A week later, Officer McShane comes to the apartment to deliver the bad news that Johnny died of pneumonia while looking for work.

Francie blames her mother for her father's death, but the births of Sissy's and Katie's babies help ease tensions in the household.

To provide financial help, a sympathetic tavern owner, Mr McGarrity, gives Francie and Neeley after-school jobs.

The story unfolds ...

✅ Credits :

Directed by : Elia Kazan
Screenplay by : Tess Slesinger and Frank Davis
Based on : A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943 novel by Betty Smith
Produced by : Louis D. Lighton
Cinematography : Leon Shamroy
Edited by : Dorothy Spencer
Music by : Alfred Newman
Distributed by : 20th Century Fox
Release Date : February 28, 1945

✅ Cast :

Dorothy McGuire as Katie Nolan
Joan Blondell as Aunt Sissy
James Dunn as Johnny Nolan
Lloyd Nolan as Officer McShane
James Gleason as McGarrity
Ted Donaldson as Neeley Nolan
Peggy Ann Garner as Francie Nolan
Ruth Nelson as Miss McDonough
John Alexander as Steve Edwards
B.S. Pully as Christmas tree vendor
Ferike Boros as Grandma Rommely (uncredited)
Charles Halton as Mr. Barker, insurance agent (uncredited)

✅ Film Information Source :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Tree_Grows_in_Brooklyn_(1945_film)

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