“Elia Kazan has directed this picture, his first, with an easy naturalness that has brought out all the tone of real experience in a vastly affecting film.”
Peggy Ann Garner stars as Francie Nolan: a bright and imaginative young woman who comes of age in a Brooklyn tenement during the early 1900s. The Nolans are an impoverished family of second-generation Irish immigrants who manage to enjoy life on pennies despite their poverty and the alcoholism of Papa (an Oscar-winning performance from James Dunn).
