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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...advance of the Allied offensive, the 365th got orders to work out on railroads along the Rhine. The Mad Polack's record in three days of mediocre strafing weather: 13 locos blown up; four steam-spewers, one enemy tree branch captured (and brought home in his engine cowling...
Married. James ("Jimmy") Dunn, 43, now taking a second hitch at cinema stardom in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn; and Edna Rush, 37, radio singer (Philadelphia's "Miss Television" of 1931); he for the third time, she for the second; in Philadelphia. Bridal attendant: A Tree's Author Betty Smith...
...Tree Grows in Brooklyn (James Dunn, Peggy Ann Garner, Dorothy McGuire; TIME...
...Tree Grows in Brooklyn" has turned up on the screen quite cleaned up and edited, but the sordid spirit and the pat honesty are still very much in evidence. If the story is inclined to bore the avid action fan with its straightforward excess of emotion, then the indictment probably spares Hollywood and goes back to Betty Smith...
There is one annoying feature about "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn": its plug for realism in writing and its pointed advice to would-be writers that only the familiar makes good subject matter. This is something of an apology for the story's stark style, and it's certainly not a new idea. Aside from such personal irritations, however, there is an extremely compelling theme of little people trying to rise from their distress that the most unsociological person will not fail to see clearly, and admire...