I read this book for my school's book club, so now we're watching the movie, and I've had the line "And it was then that Annie Laurie..." stuck in my head the past few hours. And that's all I know. So it's kind of annoying. But this is a great book, a great movie and a great scene.
what's also really sad about this is that... if you read the book.. you know that his intentions are so good, but things never turn out the way he wants them to...
@EclecticDiscus It's not on DVD but I was able to find it here, albeit it is cut into 12 parts, but 12 parts is better than nothing.
Peggy Ann Garner (Francie) seemed to have a life that paralled the film: She was married and divorced three times. Her second husband was actor Albert Salmi, by whom she had a daughter, Catherine. Catherine died shortly after her Peggy's untimely death from cancer @ age 52, Peggy's mother Virginia outlived both her only child and only grandchild.
My favorite book ~20 years back. Johnny was saddest when he was sober -ugh. One of the best bits in all literature is when Katie tells Francie she will love again with her heart thats broken now.
See the tree how big it's grown. But, Friend, it hasn't been too long, it wasn't big. I laughed at her and she got mad, the first day that she planted it, twas just a twig.
~~Wonderful Movie....When He Was Found Dead And She Pleaded With The Doctor To Put Upon The Certificate That He Passed Away From Pneumonia.....And When The Police Officer Called Upon Her At The End....~~
This movie was on TV this morning & I stayed up to 6:30am watching it. I absolutely love it. Especially the father-daughter relationship.
It's kind of sad reading the Wikipedia entrance because it gives you links to all of the actors & what happened to them. Most have died, & some were not that old when they died. Sad. The movie is sad, but I also find it inspiring. I live far from Brooklyn, but it's one place I've always wanted to see. That's actually one of my dreams, to see Brooklyn.
I absolutely LOVE this performance... it's SO pure. Unfortunately it looses a lot of impact when taken out of the context of the movie. The whole movie is extremely well done and is quite sad, yet thought provoking. Yes, I've read the book - there's no singing in it. Just ink and paper molecules.
friendsfamilyaccount, you are so right on with your observation of this scene. I'm a grown man and hate "mushy chic-flics" but this gets me everytime I see it, I've got tears in my eyes now. This movie is up there with To Kill A Mockingbird which both have been credited with the only two movies as close to being as good as the book as they can get.
That might have been a good picture (I 've never heard of it nor seen it) but the way "Annie Laurie" is being sung is too American, it just doesn't fit.
@magmalin TOO AMERICAN???? they WERE Americans living in Brooklyn for goodness sake. so how should he have sang it? with a phoney Scottish accent?, believe it or not people all over the world sing songs in their own accents. I bet you liked Dick Van Dykes phoney Cockney accent in Mary Poppins too.
@magmalin all right I'm not going to blast on you for this comment but just remember the united states was founded by people mostly from england Ireland and scotland they bought their music with them again and again more irish and scotch irish came fleeing from Britians oppression. songs like this,gary owen,the girl i left behind me, Bonnie dundee are as much a part of american culture as they are scotlands and englands. Not being grumpy it's just a fact.
@3909clancy Its a wonderful film from a wonderful book, its so human and the pictures it paints of the human condition are so profound , its a book and film that breaks your heart. once you have seen it or read the book you never forget.
@pieguy141 Same. He looks too old and he is supposed to be tall, blond, handsome, and weak-looking. Oh well. The people who made this movie must have had their reasons for choosing this Johnny.
@mirar1 the author of the book, Betty Smith... her daughter lives in my town and when Smith died, my high school gave a memorial diploma. pretty awesome
@pieguy141 Wow. That is so cool. Have you (or anyone reading this right now) read any of Smith's other books? I know they didn't receive as much acclaim but I'm wondering if they're worth reading anyway.
@mirar1 I would be grateful if you could let me know of any other Betty Smith books, I have just finished A Tree..... the book did not however list any of her other works.
i'm not one to read a book over again, especially after i just finished it. but i had absoulutely no problem rereading this book. for everyone who has seen the movie but not read the book, read it! i love it. its a beautiful story which i think everyone should get a chance to read. one of my favorite books of all time. i enjoyed the movie too but, like most situations, the book was much better than the movie.
@laxluver456 yes just finished the book and then saw the movie again, having seen the movie before , I pictured the characters as I had seen them in the movie. It is a wonderful book and of course it would have been impossible for the film to have done full credit to it but I think they did a pretty fine job anyhow.
Poignant, this film could get a niche of its own like the James Stewart one "Its A Wonderful Life", who knows maybe it will I have only seen it on TV once though, wonder why? perhaps its a copyright thing.
The book is a masterpiece, one of my all-time favorites (and I've read hundreds of books). But for the life of me I simply cannot get into the movie version. It looks so dull. My mother loves this film but I cannot bring myself to watch it. For some reason I get the impression that it does not stick close to the book. Can anyone refute that?
wlhardy: It is quite faithful, though it only focuses on a section of hte book. Filming the whole book would take a miniseries. It's a beautiful film, and Betty Smith herself was quite pleased with it. James Dunn and Peggy Ann Garner are amazing in their roles. Dunn and Dorothy Maguire make their onscreen relationship work, despite the difference in their ages. Jimmy Dunn is quite different than the Johnny Nolan of the book, physically, but his performance is flawless.
@wlhardy Most movies have a have time measuring up to the books that precede them. That said, I have to agree with the "hillbillyprofane" assessment of this film. I highly recommend you you give a shot. It's enough to make a grown man cry. It gets me every time.
Its Johnny's last home and he knew it.... whats so wroing with being a pipe dreamer? Being realistic and pragmiatic had never gotten me happiness. And why did she turn on him.. she new.
This is a film,I can watch over and over and find something new each time I view it. I also can identify with Johnny.For I am a pipe dreamer,my dreams never came true and have turn to drinking when as you see the relationship with the wife is not as loving or beautiful as it once was in the beginning. And try more but to her I can do no right.
"Having done what men could,they suffer as men must" a Greek saying in a campaign to attack lower Italy and lost, in the B.C. times.
This scene is almost too just too much - just so sad. For anybody commenting that it's not the way it "should" be done, then you don't understand the whole film. He's an alcoholic who can't provide squat for his family and he knows it. Their finances have just gotten worse and have had to move to a crappier apartment which happens to have an old piano in it. He's trying to make the best of a bad situation and while in reality, he's heartbroken. This deserves a DVD release for sure!
You are so right. It's wonderful to see someone else who understands the movie. Isn't it fantastic to see so much emotion conveyed here by such great acting and direction?
@friendsfamilyaccount This movie was so awesome in so many ways. I'm not sure if this could ever be re-made since today most people couldn't relate with the struggles families had in those days ( maybe even up to the 60's), when people had to fend for themselves which ever way they could. My heart broke for Annie and her father when I was a kid watching this movie.
@friendsfamilyaccount I know you posted a year ago, but your comment nailed it. Why do you think I have this marked? So I can come back often to see him sing his swan song before he dies of pneumonia hitting the streets so he can be a better provider. And then McGuire goes to the coroner pleading to have alcoholism taken from his death certificate. Sad how little account society still gives to those who provide us with those little things that make life worth living: art, music and poetry.
I watched this yesterday on AMC. Why does he not acknowledge his wife's comment? A really good question. Is he just singing for his children, or just too wrapped up in signing to himself?
Not sure. I think the scene is supposed to show the distance between him and the wf. Even when she tries to get close he pushes her way. Because her hardness has alreday pushed him away and hurt him. Look at Francis though. She is terrific for a child actor. You can see the love in her eyes. Beautiful song as well.
I think it s just a device to show how theyve grown apart. after his job at the wedding and the caviar he started spinning his tails of how wondreful things could be again and maybe he almost belied it himslef... but she came to herself and was hard and hurt him. she is hard and changed but he's the same. imperfect but beautiful and as always 'sick'. But at least francie loves him.
Watch the movie again (we sometimes miss little tidbits of info with a wink of the eye). The night before they had argued, and she was sick and tired of his dreaming for better times, when she felt better times were not happening anytime soon (becausing of his drinking, not working, etc. - she was disillusioned). When he sings this song he is facing reality, sort of like what happens to pipe dreamers when they realize or are made to realize that they are dreamers.
When I was in junior high the challenger exploded during mis-terms. Does that date me? Only into this later. This scene breakd my heart. The only one worde is when Francis gets the flowers from Daddy at the graduation.... That is to much.
The book is wonderful. But sometimes the movies are perfect and add more. This was Eli Kazan's first movie. Take this scene. A minor mention in the book, different context. In the movie, the way it's done, it is Johnny's scene. The whole relationship of Johnny and the wf (whats her name) summed up in this scene. Johnny summed up in this scene. And the song is beuatiful....
johnny dolan breaks my heart. This is so beautiful. It sums up the irish. any irishmen's heart should break watching johnny. A promise true.... Whicj of you hanen't known the drink?
There's a tree that grows in Brooklyn. Some people call it the Tree of Heaven. No matter where its seed falls, it makes a tree which struggles to reach the sky. It grows in boarded-up lots and out of neglected rubbish heaps. It grows out of cellar gratings. It is the only tree that grows out of cement. It grows lushly...survives without sun, water, and seemingly without earth. It would be considered beautiful except that there are too many of it.
The Father was played by James Dunn who's life was in some ways like the Father character. mainly due to his battle with the drink he had lost near all he worked for in the acting profession. He was blackballed in Hollywood. Elia Kazan, knowing of Dunn and his struggles with the bottle, cast him as the loveable, irrisponsible father, Johnny Nolan. The part proved to be somewhat of a "comeback" for Dunn who took home the best supporting actor oscar for the film.
Cry every time I see it. What a great father. The mother's line sums up the whole point "your father would have brought you dolls instead of milk". The child, without saying a word- just watch her face. What an actress! Absolute classic.
I imagined Katy and Johny younger. I don't want to spoil it for anyone but I cried when Johny died. And I still remember Katy's quote "He died trying to be a better man".
I have to read it too! I hated it when I first started reading it, bit as the story progressed, I got better and better. By the end, my opinion had complely changed. It's really a wonderful book, if you understand it, that is.
It's not cute. It has meaning, it really would not occure to people who are enveloped in todays culture, but for people who feel the past is and was for them it is life and hope.
I mean cute in the children's way. Just the behavior of the Brooklyn children is fascinating because it's not too different from they way children are today.
Don't go labeling things I do and do not know, ok?
Very true. It's such an outstanding story in so many ways, but hardly anyone I know really gets it. I cry every time I read it. Francie reminds me so much of myself when I was a little girl.
Movie and book are flawless astonishing and so much more
JBiebz4EverX 1 week ago
I read this book for my school's book club, so now we're watching the movie, and I've had the line "And it was then that Annie Laurie..." stuck in my head the past few hours. And that's all I know. So it's kind of annoying. But this is a great book, a great movie and a great scene.
DarkTamara5 2 weeks ago
Jimmy Dunn put every bit of his heart and soul into this scene. It alone was enough to earn him the Academy Award.
HallieB 3 months ago
Greart song!! Great Movie!!
TheLadyjazzy1 3 months ago
Yes, Deserves a DVD release.
13Kitties13 5 months ago
Great movie!!!
prodigy977 6 months ago
as the father of a child who is the son of a drunkard, I can promise you this scene is true
willfullyobscure 6 months ago
Poignant- brings a tear.....
flyfifer51 7 months ago
i love this movie and it was remade in the 70's with cliff robertson and it is great . it was a made for tv mivie still great
kit10skit10s 7 months ago
what's also really sad about this is that... if you read the book.. you know that his intentions are so good, but things never turn out the way he wants them to...
sweetmay73 8 months ago 2
It hits home !! my dad was an alcoholic and we were dirt poor and irish!!
TheLadyjazzy1 9 months ago
A classic in every respect, a must see film to see over and over again, a crime it is not on DVD.
Thank god for TCM.
EclecticDiscus 10 months ago
@EclecticDiscus It's not on DVD but I was able to find it here, albeit it is cut into 12 parts, but 12 parts is better than nothing.
Peggy Ann Garner (Francie) seemed to have a life that paralled the film: She was married and divorced three times. Her second husband was actor Albert Salmi, by whom she had a daughter, Catherine. Catherine died shortly after her Peggy's untimely death from cancer @ age 52, Peggy's mother Virginia outlived both her only child and only grandchild.
FurrtherMoor 7 months ago
@FurrtherMoor I wondered what happened to Peggy Ann. Did Dorothy McGuire pass on also?
HeatherGlen33 3 weeks ago
This video, only a short part of this movie, is attractive enough to induce me to watch it in full.
228ANDY 10 months ago
My favorite book ~20 years back. Johnny was saddest when he was sober -ugh. One of the best bits in all literature is when Katie tells Francie she will love again with her heart thats broken now.
crifoter69 11 months ago
2:12 of cinematic perfection - good ol' James Dunn....
Kramnosnits 1 year ago 5
See the tree how big it's grown. But, Friend, it hasn't been too long, it wasn't big. I laughed at her and she got mad, the first day that she planted it, twas just a twig.
etbella3 1 year ago
This is a wonderful movie. Watch it with someone you truly love...
Bluebonnett52 1 year ago 2
Sad also to think that Peggy Ann Garner, who would have been 13 when the movie was released in 1945, died at the age of 52, according to Wikipedia.
neal1960 1 year ago
Great movie! So sad.
opelske 1 year ago
that's the stuff
willfullyobscure 1 year ago
Unforgettable.
louisa1832 1 year ago
no he tenido el placer de ver la película, el libro es genial. La protagonista no se llama Annie Laurie, sino Francie.
editores, nos encantaría que publicaseis en español más libros de esta autora, Betty Smith. Gracias
wasinfivepoints 1 year ago
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~~Wonderful Movie....When He Was Found Dead And She Pleaded With The Doctor To Put Upon The Certificate That He Passed Away From Pneumonia.....And When The Police Officer Called Upon Her At The End....~~
NoirSunset 1 year ago
the book is sooo wonderful!
MPL029 1 year ago
This movie was on TV this morning & I stayed up to 6:30am watching it. I absolutely love it. Especially the father-daughter relationship.
It's kind of sad reading the Wikipedia entrance because it gives you links to all of the actors & what happened to them. Most have died, & some were not that old when they died. Sad. The movie is sad, but I also find it inspiring. I live far from Brooklyn, but it's one place I've always wanted to see. That's actually one of my dreams, to see Brooklyn.
ApocalypsePlough 1 year ago
I absolutely LOVE this performance... it's SO pure. Unfortunately it looses a lot of impact when taken out of the context of the movie. The whole movie is extremely well done and is quite sad, yet thought provoking. Yes, I've read the book - there's no singing in it. Just ink and paper molecules.
Kramnosnits 1 year ago
friendsfamilyaccount, you are so right on with your observation of this scene. I'm a grown man and hate "mushy chic-flics" but this gets me everytime I see it, I've got tears in my eyes now. This movie is up there with To Kill A Mockingbird which both have been credited with the only two movies as close to being as good as the book as they can get.
blueknight708 1 year ago
BOOK IS BEAST!! ur mising out if u just watch the movie
cat54907 1 year ago
That might have been a good picture (I 've never heard of it nor seen it) but the way "Annie Laurie" is being sung is too American, it just doesn't fit.
magmalin 1 year ago
@magmalin TOO AMERICAN???? they WERE Americans living in Brooklyn for goodness sake. so how should he have sang it? with a phoney Scottish accent?, believe it or not people all over the world sing songs in their own accents. I bet you liked Dick Van Dykes phoney Cockney accent in Mary Poppins too.
melodharmony 1 year ago
@magmalin all right I'm not going to blast on you for this comment but just remember the united states was founded by people mostly from england Ireland and scotland they bought their music with them again and again more irish and scotch irish came fleeing from Britians oppression. songs like this,gary owen,the girl i left behind me, Bonnie dundee are as much a part of american culture as they are scotlands and englands. Not being grumpy it's just a fact.
Lumotaku 1 year ago
He is the one who's fault all of this is!!He knows the one person he thought would always love and believe in him his wife now doesn't.
3909clancy 1 year ago
@3909clancy Its a wonderful film from a wonderful book, its so human and the pictures it paints of the human condition are so profound , its a book and film that breaks your heart. once you have seen it or read the book you never forget.
melodharmony 1 year ago
that is not how i picture johnny
pieguy141 1 year ago
@pieguy141 Same. He looks too old and he is supposed to be tall, blond, handsome, and weak-looking. Oh well. The people who made this movie must have had their reasons for choosing this Johnny.
mirar1 1 year ago
@mirar1 the author of the book, Betty Smith... her daughter lives in my town and when Smith died, my high school gave a memorial diploma. pretty awesome
pieguy141 1 year ago
@pieguy141 Wow. That is so cool. Have you (or anyone reading this right now) read any of Smith's other books? I know they didn't receive as much acclaim but I'm wondering if they're worth reading anyway.
mirar1 1 year ago
@mirar1 i havent read her other writings but i heard that they are around the same theme/style as A Tree
pieguy141 1 year ago
@mirar1 I would be grateful if you could let me know of any other Betty Smith books, I have just finished A Tree..... the book did not however list any of her other works.
melodharmony 1 year ago
@melodharmony She wrote three other books: Tomorrow Will Be Better, Maggie-Now, and Joy in the Morning.
mirar1 1 year ago
@mirar1 Thank you very much for your help I shall now endevour to find these books All my very best wishes and once more thank you.
melodharmony 1 year ago
i'm not one to read a book over again, especially after i just finished it. but i had absoulutely no problem rereading this book. for everyone who has seen the movie but not read the book, read it! i love it. its a beautiful story which i think everyone should get a chance to read. one of my favorite books of all time. i enjoyed the movie too but, like most situations, the book was much better than the movie.
laxluver456 1 year ago
@laxluver456 yes just finished the book and then saw the movie again, having seen the movie before , I pictured the characters as I had seen them in the movie. It is a wonderful book and of course it would have been impossible for the film to have done full credit to it but I think they did a pretty fine job anyhow.
melodharmony 1 year ago
EXCELLENT movie. I have it on VHS, and cry everytime I watch it.
Bertminator 1 year ago
wow, it's nice to hear "Johnny" sing.
VanillaMostly 1 year ago
I pictured johnny younger and katie younger
BlitzRyuu 1 year ago 2
Poignant, this film could get a niche of its own like the James Stewart one "Its A Wonderful Life", who knows maybe it will I have only seen it on TV once though, wonder why? perhaps its a copyright thing.
melodharmony 1 year ago
Some tunes just need feeling...and this is one of them. Durbin, McCormack sing it better of course, but the feeling???? None with more.
gtopa1 1 year ago
GOLLY even the version I was thinking of!!! WOW!! Thanks for posting.
chinzebo 1 year ago
The book is a masterpiece, one of my all-time favorites (and I've read hundreds of books). But for the life of me I simply cannot get into the movie version. It looks so dull. My mother loves this film but I cannot bring myself to watch it. For some reason I get the impression that it does not stick close to the book. Can anyone refute that?
wlhardy 2 years ago 2
wlhardy: It is quite faithful, though it only focuses on a section of hte book. Filming the whole book would take a miniseries. It's a beautiful film, and Betty Smith herself was quite pleased with it. James Dunn and Peggy Ann Garner are amazing in their roles. Dunn and Dorothy Maguire make their onscreen relationship work, despite the difference in their ages. Jimmy Dunn is quite different than the Johnny Nolan of the book, physically, but his performance is flawless.
hillbillyprofane 2 years ago
@wlhardy Most movies have a have time measuring up to the books that precede them. That said, I have to agree with the "hillbillyprofane" assessment of this film. I highly recommend you you give a shot. It's enough to make a grown man cry. It gets me every time.
sidDkid87 1 year ago
@wlhardy You've made me want to read the book now, who was the author?.
melodharmony 1 year ago
@melodharmony Betty Smith
icesbro3 1 year ago
A pipe dreamer my azz he was a straight up drunk.A selfish,self serving drunk.
cbrun67176 2 years ago
i freakingg LOVE this book.
no, nevermind.
love would be an understatementt
ilyDinosaur 2 years ago
Its Johnny's last home and he knew it.... whats so wroing with being a pipe dreamer? Being realistic and pragmiatic had never gotten me happiness. And why did she turn on him.. she new.
Metropolitan0323 2 years ago
The greatest movie and the greatest novel in history!
Saugekaktus 2 years ago 2
A heart braking scene, especially considering the back story of James Dunn's life and career.
oliverquackenbush 2 years ago
If this doesnt break your heart you have no soul. He said over his 5th Martini of the night.
Metropolitan0323 2 years ago
This is a film,I can watch over and over and find something new each time I view it. I also can identify with Johnny.For I am a pipe dreamer,my dreams never came true and have turn to drinking when as you see the relationship with the wife is not as loving or beautiful as it once was in the beginning. And try more but to her I can do no right.
"Having done what men could,they suffer as men must" a Greek saying in a campaign to attack lower Italy and lost, in the B.C. times.
littemikie 2 years ago
It's his voice cracking with emotion..gets me every time.
I first saw this aged about 10 and I loved it even then.
ConstanceMarkiewicz 2 years ago
great book. simple as that. GREAT BOOK.
hsmgurlie1 2 years ago
READ THE BOOK!
guitarnews 2 years ago 32
@guitarnews Johnnie kills a pervert who attacks Francie in the book. They kinda left that out of the movie.
mrjoegrennon 1 year ago
@mrjoegrennon actually in the book katie is the one who kills the perv
koala2795 1 year ago
@koala2795 Thanks!
klooky666 1 year ago
A wonderful film about the human spirit, discouragement, and hope! Wonderful film, great actors! A film all should see one time in their life.
flowerroses42x 2 years ago 3
This scene is almost too just too much - just so sad. For anybody commenting that it's not the way it "should" be done, then you don't understand the whole film. He's an alcoholic who can't provide squat for his family and he knows it. Their finances have just gotten worse and have had to move to a crappier apartment which happens to have an old piano in it. He's trying to make the best of a bad situation and while in reality, he's heartbroken. This deserves a DVD release for sure!
friendsfamilyaccount 2 years ago 25
You are so right. It's wonderful to see someone else who understands the movie. Isn't it fantastic to see so much emotion conveyed here by such great acting and direction?
rossmcl177 2 years ago
@friendsfamilyaccount well said! you nailed it!
sidDkid87 1 year ago
@friendsfamilyaccount This movie was so awesome in so many ways. I'm not sure if this could ever be re-made since today most people couldn't relate with the struggles families had in those days ( maybe even up to the 60's), when people had to fend for themselves which ever way they could. My heart broke for Annie and her father when I was a kid watching this movie.
rgarcia77 1 year ago
@friendsfamilyaccount I know you posted a year ago, but your comment nailed it. Why do you think I have this marked? So I can come back often to see him sing his swan song before he dies of pneumonia hitting the streets so he can be a better provider. And then McGuire goes to the coroner pleading to have alcoholism taken from his death certificate. Sad how little account society still gives to those who provide us with those little things that make life worth living: art, music and poetry.
virgy45 10 months ago 2
@friendsfamilyaccount LOL he is heartbroken cause he knows it's all his fault!!
3909clancy 4 months ago
tooottally different than i think it should be
everyone should look better, sorry
i LOVE molly malone, get iiiittt :D
miaHITit 2 years ago
so heart breaking.
Metropolitan0323 2 years ago 2
Wonderful film,so heartwarming.
ReneaB66 2 years ago 2
Why are you people calling her "Francis"?
Her name's Francie
xSOTRISx 2 years ago 3
her real name is frances- her nickname is franci
Xxfudgegirl25 2 years ago
thank you!
Metropolitan0323 2 years ago
I watched this yesterday on AMC. Why does he not acknowledge his wife's comment? A really good question. Is he just singing for his children, or just too wrapped up in signing to himself?
binkle1 2 years ago
Not sure. I think the scene is supposed to show the distance between him and the wf. Even when she tries to get close he pushes her way. Because her hardness has alreday pushed him away and hurt him. Look at Francis though. She is terrific for a child actor. You can see the love in her eyes. Beautiful song as well.
Metropolitan0323 2 years ago 3
I think it s just a device to show how theyve grown apart. after his job at the wedding and the caviar he started spinning his tails of how wondreful things could be again and maybe he almost belied it himslef... but she came to herself and was hard and hurt him. she is hard and changed but he's the same. imperfect but beautiful and as always 'sick'. But at least francie loves him.
Metropolitan0323 2 years ago
Watch the movie again (we sometimes miss little tidbits of info with a wink of the eye). The night before they had argued, and she was sick and tired of his dreaming for better times, when she felt better times were not happening anytime soon (becausing of his drinking, not working, etc. - she was disillusioned). When he sings this song he is facing reality, sort of like what happens to pipe dreamers when they realize or are made to realize that they are dreamers.
opelske 2 years ago
When I was in junior high the challenger exploded during mis-terms. Does that date me? Only into this later. This scene breakd my heart. The only one worde is when Francis gets the flowers from Daddy at the graduation.... That is to much.
Metropolitan0323 2 years ago 2
Ahhh good times i sure remember this movie when i was back in junior school.
KeyboardMaster12 2 years ago 2
i love this book
lovinmymusic4life 2 years ago 4
The book is wonderful. But sometimes the movies are perfect and add more. This was Eli Kazan's first movie. Take this scene. A minor mention in the book, different context. In the movie, the way it's done, it is Johnny's scene. The whole relationship of Johnny and the wf (whats her name) summed up in this scene. Johnny summed up in this scene. And the song is beuatiful....
jyannacci 2 years ago 3
watch her eyes francis nolan. The book is only better but the movie was beautiful.
jyannacci 2 years ago
johnny dolan breaks my heart. This is so beautiful. It sums up the irish. any irishmen's heart should break watching johnny. A promise true.... Whicj of you hanen't known the drink?
jyannacci 2 years ago
I really enjoy this whole movie. I love seeing james dunn act
cheyenne86 2 years ago
that is not at all how i imagined johnny
farleyriver 2 years ago 4
My favorite movie....the acting is superb...!!
ectorlove 2 years ago
There's a tree that grows in Brooklyn. Some people call it the Tree of Heaven. No matter where its seed falls, it makes a tree which struggles to reach the sky. It grows in boarded-up lots and out of neglected rubbish heaps. It grows out of cellar gratings. It is the only tree that grows out of cement. It grows lushly...survives without sun, water, and seemingly without earth. It would be considered beautiful except that there are too many of it.
--Betty Smith, "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn," 1943
whiteroselynx 2 years ago
I f that scene doesn't make you cry, you have no sole.
Beautiful!
EclecticDiscus 2 years ago 3
Thank you so much for posting this!
banjostudent 2 years ago
This is my favorite movie.
hamagurimarch 2 years ago
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sidDkid87 2 years ago
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this movies sucked they she didnt even grow up!
rearea718 2 years ago
you have issues.
justholli 2 years ago
no i have a opinion which is i didnt like the movie
rearea718 2 years ago
何て哀しい歌だろう。素晴らしい！
jeantaku 2 years ago
this song has a special significance to me considering that annie laurie is my name.
juicebox3721 3 years ago
I love this movie and I enjoy watching J Dunn in all this acting parts.
cheyenne86 3 years ago
The Father was played by James Dunn who's life was in some ways like the Father character. mainly due to his battle with the drink he had lost near all he worked for in the acting profession. He was blackballed in Hollywood. Elia Kazan, knowing of Dunn and his struggles with the bottle, cast him as the loveable, irrisponsible father, Johnny Nolan. The part proved to be somewhat of a "comeback" for Dunn who took home the best supporting actor oscar for the film.
blakta2 3 years ago
This is one of my all time favorite classic movies and my all time FAVORITE classic scenes. I get a lump in my throat every time I see it....
blakta2 3 years ago
Cry every time I see it. What a great father. The mother's line sums up the whole point "your father would have brought you dolls instead of milk". The child, without saying a word- just watch her face. What an actress! Absolute classic.
KennethKozak0514 3 years ago 3
A classic Film.
A classic book.
I wish they would release it on dvd.
ssolivia43 3 years ago 3
It is on dvd. Just google it.
KennethKozak0514 3 years ago
the kids look just as i imagined, and katy too. the dad looks 10 yrs too old
Borderite76 3 years ago 3
One of my favorite books ..This and 'THE LAST HURRAH"..
kennyworth1967 3 years ago
Its amazing the devastation an alcoholic has on a family.
cbrun67176 3 years ago 2
I imagined Katy and Johny younger. I don't want to spoil it for anyone but I cried when Johny died. And I still remember Katy's quote "He died trying to be a better man".
BirdBrain911 3 years ago 3
the book is amazing. i read it when i was 11 and i cried
farleyriver 3 years ago
Jimmy Dunn breaks my heart every time.
hillbillyprofane 3 years ago
Yes. It's truly heartbreaking — and amazing cinema.
mrcrymnd 3 years ago
A great film, have loved it for years - especially great to watch around Christmas. This was the first film by director Elia Kazan.
calcecini 3 years ago
This is my favorite part of the entire film.
mrcrymnd 3 years ago
I pictured Johnny Nolan to be a lot younger.
ziegfeldgirl12 3 years ago 3
haha same. i picured him to be better looking too =P
Summer1328 3 years ago 2
and blonde
farleyriver 3 years ago
Wow! Katie looks exacly as I pictured her to be in the book! Weird.
rockfreak611 3 years ago
so bueatiful. my grandfather is scottish and he sings this sometimes.
haileeann94 3 years ago
ugh i have to read this book!!!
regits012 3 years ago
you'll like this book, I promise :)
mrsjeffhenson 3 years ago 2
I have to read it too! I hated it when I first started reading it, bit as the story progressed, I got better and better. By the end, my opinion had complely changed. It's really a wonderful book, if you understand it, that is.
rockfreak611 3 years ago 2
yeah it's growing on me!! i just wonder where could i find the whole movie to watch
regits012 3 years ago
great scene
tedd909 3 years ago
reminds me of my sad childhood. My father was Scottish. Makes me cry.
agpurvis 3 years ago
God bless Jimmy Dunn.
hillbillyprofane 3 years ago 2
im in the middle of reading this book...really cute one too
AGR04 3 years ago
It's not cute. It has meaning, it really would not occure to people who are enveloped in todays culture, but for people who feel the past is and was for them it is life and hope.
memoriesfromthepast 3 years ago
I mean cute in the children's way. Just the behavior of the Brooklyn children is fascinating because it's not too different from they way children are today.
Don't go labeling things I do and do not know, ok?
AGR04 3 years ago
Thank you for clairifying. I didn't mean to bit your head off. And I totaly agree with you. It is sad how todays children have changed
memoriesfromthepast 3 years ago
Very true. It's such an outstanding story in so many ways, but hardly anyone I know really gets it. I cry every time I read it. Francie reminds me so much of myself when I was a little girl.
haileeann94 3 years ago 2
me aswell, there is imagination that no one can cover up. I feel is if there is that comon need to survive
memoriesfromthepast 3 years ago
pretty song
MicheleAlisonSmith 3 years ago
This really shows how it effects everyone when a parent is a drunk
cbrun67176 3 years ago
Truly moving - what fine performances. Many thanks...
crooner62 3 years ago
love it!
savvyls 3 years ago
Great movie and a powerful scene from it. Why isn't this classic out on DVD?
HurricaneRhonda 3 years ago