Directed by:
Elia KazanCinematography:
Leon ShamroyComposer:
Alfred NewmanCast:
Dorothy McGuire, Joan Blondell, James Dunn, Peggy Ann Garner, Lloyd Nolan, James Gleason, Ted Donaldson, John Alexander, Alec Craig, Gloria Talbott (more)Plots(1)
The story centers on young Francis Nolan, whose father's sudden death leaves the family to somehow survive in a harsh, desperate time. Like the tree in the back of their house, uncared for and forgotten, their struggle to survive is a valiant one. (official distributor synopsis)
Cast
Jessie Arnold
USA
Best movies:
It Happened One Night (1934)
The Stratton Story (1949)
Arch of Triumph (1948)
![Virginia Brissac](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/158/333/158333193_284adb.jpg)
Virginia Brissac
USA
Best movies:
Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
Strike Up the Band (1940)
The Little Foxes (1941)
![Ferike Boros](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/448/160448453_73f540.jpg)
Ferike Boros
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
The Talk of the Town (1942)
Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)
Black Fury (1935)
![Lillian Bronson](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/015/161015277_170ae9.jpg)
Lillian Bronson
USA
Best movies:
Gaslight (1944)
Spencer's Mountain (1963)
A Stolen Life (1946)
Harry Seymour
USA
Best movies:
North by Northwest (1959)
Rhapsody in Blue (1945)
Action in the North Atlantic (1943)
Harry Harvey Jr.
USA
Best movies:
Spartacus (1960)
Forbidden Planet (1956)
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)
George Meader
USA
Best movies:
Edison, the Man (1940)
Scarlet Street (1945)
Mildred Pierce (1945)
![Adeline De Walt Reynolds](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/757/161757094_d485bf.jpg)
Adeline De Walt Reynolds
USA
Best movies:
Shadow of the Thin Man (1941)
The Ten Commandments (1956)
Tales of Manhattan (1942)
Robert Strange
USA
Best movies:
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939)
The Smiling Lieutenant (1931)
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)
Cecil Weston
South Africa
Best movies:
The Song of Bernadette (1943)
Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)
Charles Marsh
USA
Best movies:
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
Strangers on a Train (1951)
Storm Warning (1951)
Francis Pierlot
USA
Best movies:
Song of Love (1947)
Strike Up the Band (1940)
Madame Curie (1943)
John Berkes
USA
Best movies:
Ace in the Hole (1951)
Shadow of the Thin Man (1941)
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)
Jack Carr
USA
Best movies:
East of Eden (1955)
Count the Hours (1953)
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)
Martha Wentworth
USA
Best movies:
Waterloo Bridge (1940)
Rock Around the Clock (1956)
The Man with the Golden Arm (1955)
Teddy Infuhr
USA
Best movies:
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
Madame Curie (1943)
Spellbound (1945)
Paul Weigel
Germany
Best movies:
The Great Dictator (1940)
Ninotchka (1939)
Anthony Adverse (1936)
Joseph J. Greene
USA
Best movies:
The Thin Man Goes Home (1945)
Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
The Bishop's Wife (1947)
George M. Carleton
USA
Best movies:
Casablanca (1942)
You Gotta Stay Happy (1948)
Conflict (1945)