A Place in the Sun is a 1951 American tragedy film directed and produced by George Stevens from a screenplay by Harry Brown and Michael Wilson, based on the 1925 novel An American Tragedy by Theodore
Theatrical release poster
Montgomery Clift at the film's premiere
1959 re-release poster
Elizabeth Taylor
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Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor was a British and American actress. She began her career as a child actress in the early 1940s and was one of the most popular stars of classical Hollywood cinema in the
A Place in the Sun (1951 film)
…Wilson, based on the 1925 novel An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser and its 1926 stage adaptation by Patrick Kearney. It stars Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Shelley Winters and Keefe Brasselle. The story was inspired by the murder of Grace Brown by Chester Gillette in 1906, which resulted in Gillette's…
Taylor c. 1955
Taylor (left) at age two with her mother Sara Sothern (center) and brother Howard (right) in 1934
Taylor in a studio publicity photo in 1942
Mickey Rooney and Taylor in National Velvet (1944), her first major film role