A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

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Each week Hallmark will bring you Hollywood's greatest stars in outstanding stories chosen by one of the world's best known authors. They distinguish novelist Mr. James Hilton. Good evening ladies and gentlemen. This is James Hilton.

Tonight on our Hallmark Playhouse, we present our dramatization of a very well-known story which not only recently reached the top of the bestseller list, but one fame for its authoress almost overnight. She is Betty Smith, and her novel, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, is as engaging as its title.

In this story, there's a theme which has always warmed the hearts of fiction lovers, the struggle of youth to fulfill itself. And in a tree goes in Brooklyn, this note is captured and held with great success.

We are fortunate tonight to have starring in the role of John Nolan that very fine actor Mr. James Dunn, and in the role of Francie, Miss Connie Marshall. And now, Frank Goss, have you a word about Hallmark?

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to send the very best. Now, hallmark playhouse, presenting James Dunn in Betty Smith's A Tree Grows in Brooklyn with Connie Marshall. There's a tree that grows in Brooklyn. Some people call it the Tree of Heaven. It grows was in boarded up lots and out of neglected rubbish heaps.