A Place in the Sun
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The movie was adapted by Harry Brown and Michael Wilson from the novel An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser and the adapted play by Patrick Kearney. It was directed by George Stevens. The film has been deemed "culturally significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.
Inspiration for the novel
An American Tragedy was based upon the 1906 murder of Grace Brown. In 1906, Chester Gillette was convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend, Grace Brown, at Big Moose Lake in the Adirondacks in upstate New York. The murder trial drew international attention as Brown's love letters to Gillette were read in court. Theodore Dreiser saved newspaper clippings about the case for some 15 years before writing his novel An American Tragedy.
Academy Awards
- Best Cinematography, Black-and-White (William C. Mellor)
- Best Costume Design, Black-and-White (Edith Head)
- Best Director (George Stevens)
- Best Film Editing (William Hornbeck)
- Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture (Franz Waxman)
- Best Writing, Screenplay (Michael Wilson and Harry Brown)
- Best Actor in a Leading Role (Montgomery Clift)
- Best Actress in a Leading Role (Shelley Winters)
- Best Picture
Further reading
- "Double Exposure," an article about differences between the two film versions of An American Tragedy, in Opera News, December 2005, pp. 24–31.
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