Betty Smith and George Abbot wrote a musical comedy version of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn which played on Broadway in 1944. It was produced by Elia Kazan who then directed the movie version, Kazan's first feature film, released in 1945. The movie starred James Dunn as Johnny Nolan and Peggy Ann Garner as Francie. Reviewing it in The Nation, James Agee (with the caveat that he had not read the.....
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