A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Ben Mankiewicz introduces A Tree Grows In Brooklyn, 1945.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces A Tree Grows In Brooklyn, 1945.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces A Tree Grows In Brooklyn, 1945.

Dave Karger introduces A Tree Grows In Brooklyn, 1945.

Katie (Dorothy McGuire), Francie (Peggy Ann Garner) and Keeley (Ted Donaldson) Nolan are introduced immediately after the opening credits in Elia Kazan's debut feature, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, 1945.

Johnny Nolan (James Dunn) works his irascible charm on his daughter Francie (Peggy Ann Garner), wife Katie (Dorothy McGuire) and the rest of the neighborhood in Elia Kazan's A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, 1945.

Joan Blondell in her rousing first appearance as "Aunt Sissy" drops in on Katie (Dorothy McGuire), Francie (Peggy Ann Garner) and Keeley (Ted Donaldson) Nolan in Elia Kazan's A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, 1945.

First time director Elia Kazan working his 20th Century-Fox soundstage for all it's worth, finding Francie (Peggy Ann Garner), delighted at the first appearance of her father, James Dunn as singing waiter Johnny Nolan, early in A Tree Grows In Brooklyn, 1945, from the debut novel by Betty Smith.