A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945) Johnny Nolan

Director: Elia Kazan Writers: Tess Slesinger, Frank Davis, Betty Smith, Anita Loos Stars: Dorothy McGuire, Joan Blondell, James Dunn, Peggy Ann Garner, Ted Donaldson. .. American film that marked the directorial debut of Elia film covers several months in the life of the Nolans, an Irish American family living in the Williamsburg neighborhood in the borough of by her idealistic if luckless father, a bright and imaginative young woman comes of age in a Brooklyn tenement duri