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An American Tragedy is a 1925 novel by American writer Theodore Dreiser. He began the manuscript in the summer of 1920, but a year later abandoned most of that text. It was based on the notorious murder of Grace Brown in 1906 and the trial of her lover, Chester Gillette.
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An American Tragedy (1931) is an American pre-Code drama film directed by Josef von Sternberg and produced and distributed by Paramount Pictures. It is based on Theodore Dreiser 's 1925 novel An American Tragedy and its 1926 stage adaptation, which were inspired by the historic 1906 murder of Grace Brown by Chester Gillette at Big Moose Lake in ...
A Place in the Sun is a 1951 American tragedy film based on the 1925 novel An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser and the 1926 play, also titled An American Tragedy. It tells the story of a working-class young man who is entangled with two women: one who works in his wealthy uncle's factory, and the other a beautiful socialite.
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When A Place in the Sunwas released in 1952, audiences were well aware that Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor and Shelly Winters were playing characters who were based on real people. The story was based on an enormous scandal of the early 20th century—a truly selfish murder committed by a man who simply did not want to own up to his responsibilit...
The story became a play at the turn of the century and several books were written about the murder such as Adirondack Tragedy, Murder in the Andirondacks, and the novel by Theodore Dreiser, An American Tragedy. A movie with the same title, An American Tragedy, was released in 1931, but the best-remembered version was the one that was released 40 ye...
OldWitchcraftfrom The Atmosphere on February 19, 2013: I became a fan of Shelley Winters as a child when I first saw her in the ABC Movie of the Week production, "The Devil's Daughter," in which she starred with Jonathan Frid. Skarlet (author)from California on February 19, 2013: @ OldWitchcraft- Thank you. I am in the same boat that you are in. I ...
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Sep 10, 2012 · Faced with Sternberg's distillation of his undeniably great but unreadably turgid novel - about a social climber who murders a factory girl when her pregnancy threatens his romance with a wealthy...
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An American Tragedy (1931) In director Josef von Sternberg's romantic drama, adapted from Theodore Dreiser's 1925 novel of the same name (based on the real-life murder of 20-year-old Grace Brown by Chester Gillette in upstate New York in 1906) - with tragic consequences (later remade as A Place in the Sun (1951) ):
Dec 22, 2023 · An American Tragedy was released on limited edition Blu-ray by Powerhouse Films on their Indicator label on 18 th December 2023. The 2019 restoration from a 4K scan is excellent, with picture quality very strong throughout, just a few blemishes and soft shots on occasion, with strong detail.
