February 28, 1945 –
The film directorial debut of Elia Kazan, an adaptation of the Betty Smith’s novel, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, starring Dorothy McGuire, Joan Blondell, James Dunn, Lloyd Nolan, Peggy Ann Garner, Ted Donaldson, and James Gleason, opened on this date.
After being so impressed by the dailies of the film, executives at Fox wanted to re-shoot the entire movie in Technicolor, but Elia Kazan refused.
The Haus of Dcaligari 