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Did not expect to be so moved by this movie

Bleak, tear-stained turn-of-the-century drama focusing on the hard knocks of tenement living offset by brilliant direction and radiant performances; an absolute must.

Go Forth Into the World and Make Thy Dreams Come True.

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Shirley Temple, Joseph Cotten, and Ginger Rogers in I'll Be Seeing You (1944)

Maureen O'Hara, Roddy McDowall, Sara Allgood, Donald Crisp, John Loder, Walter Pidgeon, and Evan S. Evans in How Green Was My Valley (1941)

Elizabeth Taylor, Mickey Rooney, Donald Crisp, and Jackie 'Butch' Jenkins in National Velvet (1944)

Maureen O'Hara, Robert Young, and Clifton Webb in Sitting Pretty (1948)

Spencer Tracy, Lionel Barrymore, and Freddie Bartholomew in Captains Courageous (1937)

Cary Grant, Janet Blair, Ted Donaldson, and James Gleason in Once Upon a Time (1944)

James Cagney in Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)

Judy Garland, Tom Drake, and Margaret O'Brien in Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)

Gary Cooper, Anthony Perkins, Pat Boone, Richard Eyer, Dorothy McGuire, and Samantha the Goose in Friendly Persuasion (1956)

Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, and Dorothy Lamour in Road to Utopia (1945)

Joan Blondell, James Dunn, Ted Donaldson, Peggy Ann Garner, Dorothy McGuire, and Lloyd Nolan in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)

They didn't have any right to kill it did they papa!

Now wait a minute. They didn't kill it. Why they couldn't kill that tree.

Why sure baby. Don't tell me that tree is gonna lay down and die that easily. Look at that tree. See where it's coming from. Right up outta that cement! Didn't nobody plant it. Didn't ask the cement to grow. It just couldn't help growing so much it just pushed that old cement out of the way. Now when you bust it with something like that, can't anybody help it, like... like that little ole bird up there. He didn't ask anybody could he sing and he certainly didn't take any lessons. He's so full of singing it just has to bust out someplace. Why they could cut that ole tree right down to the ground and a root would push up someplace else in the cement.

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James Dunn, Ted Donaldson, Peggy Ann Garner, and Dorothy McGuire in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)

Peggy Ann Garner in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)

Ted Donaldson, Peggy Ann Garner, and Dorothy McGuire in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)

Dorothy McGuire

Peggy Ann Garner

Joan Blondell

Tess Slesinger

Frank Davis

Betty Smith

Encouraged by her idealistic if luckless father, a bright and imaginative young woman comes of age in a Brooklyn tenement during the early 1900s.

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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

I watched this movie for the first time on TNT last night and was totally blown away.  Peggy Ann Garner who plays Francie is a brilliant actress...and at such an early age.  I remember we had to read the book in school in the 1960&apos;s (!) but I never saw the movie until now.  The characters were so convincing, I was transported to Brooklyn, circa early 1900&apos;s and never left for 2 hours and 20 minutes.  I went to bed thinking about this movie and woke up this morning with it&apos;s after affect still lingering in my mind.  A &quot;must see&quot; for everyone of all ages.  This one&apos;s a gem.

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I watched this movie for the first time on TNT last night and was totally blown away.  Peggy Ann Garner who plays Francie is a brilliant actress...and at such an early age.  I remember we had to read the book in school in the 1960's (!) but I never saw the movie until now.  The characters were so convincing, I was transported to Brooklyn, circa early 1900's and never left for 2 hours and 20 minutes.  I went to bed thinking about this movie and woke up this morning with it's after affect still lingering in my mind.  A "must see" for everyone of all ages.  This one's a gem.

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