A Place in the Sun

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A Place in the Sun
original film poster
Directed by	George Stevens
Produced by	George Stevens
Written by	Theodore Dreiser (novel An American Tragedy) Patrick Kearney (play An American Tragedy) Michael Wilson (screenplay) Harry Brown (screenplay)
Starring	Montgomery Clift Elizabeth Taylor Shelley Winters Anne Revere
Music by	Franz Waxman
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date(s)	August 14, 1951 U.S. premiere
Running time	122 min
Language	English
Budget	$2,295,304 (estimated)
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A Place in the Sun is a 1951 film which tells the story of a working class young man who is entangled with two women, one who works in his wealthy uncle's factory and the other a beautiful socialite. It stars Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Shelley Winters, Anne Revere, Keefe Brasselle and Raymond Burr.The film is best known for the celebrated dance scene between Clift and Taylor, shot in extreme closeup by director George Stevens.

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.

1 Inspiration for the novel
2 Academy Awards
3 Further reading
4 External links

[edit] 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.