Tree Grows in Brooklyn, A (1945) - (Movie Clip) Aunt Sissy
Joan Blondell in her rousing first appearance as "Aunt Sissy" drops in on Katie (Dorothy McGuire), Francie (Peggy Ann Garner) and Keeley (Ted Donaldson) Nolan in Elia Kazan's A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, 1945.
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