An American Tragedy (film)
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Director Josef von Sternberg Music director John Leipold Duration Language English | 6.8/10 Genre Romance, Drama Story by Theodore Dreiser Country United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date August 22, 1931 (1931-08-22) Based on An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser Writer Theodore Dreiser (novel), Samuel Hoffenstein Cast Phillips Holmes (Clyde Griffiths), Sylvia Sidney (Roberta 'Bert' Alden), Frances Dee (Sondra Finchley), Irving Pichel (District Attorney Orville Mason) Similar movies Related Josef von Sternberg movies |
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An American Tragedy is a 1931 Pre-Code drama film, produced and distributed by Paramount Pictures and directed by Josef von Sternberg. The film is based on Theodore Dreiser's 1925 novel An American Tragedy which itself alludes to the real life 1906 murder of Grace Brown by Chester Gillette.

Before this film was made, a play version debuted on Broadway in 1926. In the cast was a then-unknown actress named Miriam Hopkins.

Paramount Pictures made a very loose adaptation of the same story again in 1951, titled A Place in the Sun, directed by George Stevens.





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