An American Tragedy
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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 mur
Dust jacket of a 1926 edition published by Boni & Liveright
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
An American Tragedy
…and on August 21, 1949. The episode was also repeated in 1955, when the show was a hit on both radio and television. The 1951 Paramount Pictures film A Place in the Sun, directed by George Stevens and starring Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, and Shelley Winters, is "[b]ased on the novel "An American Tragedy" by…
Theatrical release poster
Montgomery Clift at the film's premiere
1959 re-release poster