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A Place in the Sun is a 1951 film which tells the story of a young man who is entangled with two women who work for his uncle's factory. It stars Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Shelley Winters, Anne Revere, Keefe Brasselle and Raymond Burr.

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)

Academy Award nominations

Best Actor in a Leading Role
(Montgomery Clift
)
Best Actress in a Leading Role
(Shelley Winters
)
Best Picture

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Actors - A Place in the Sun

Inspiration for the novel

Academy Awards

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