A Place in the Sun (film)
A Place in the Sun is a 1951 American drama film based on the 1925 novel" An American Tragedy" by Theodore Dreiser and the 1926 play, also titled" An American Tragedy".
It 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.
Another adaptation of the novel had been filmed once before, as" An American Tragedy", in 1931.
" A Place in the Sun" was directed by George Stevens from a screenplay by Harry Brown and Michael Wilson, and stars Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, and Shelley Winters; its supporting actors included Anne Revere, and Raymond Burr.
The film was a critical and commercial success, winning six Academy Awards and the first- ever Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama.
In 1991," A Place in the Sun" was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being" culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
Chester Gillette
Chester Ellsworth Gillette( August 9, 1883 – March 30, 1908), an American convicted murderer, became the basis for the fictional character Clyde Griffiths in Theodore Dreiser's novel" An American Tragedy", which was the basis of the 1931 film" An American Tragedy" and the 1951 film" A Place in the Sun".
Peter Levin
Peter Levin is an American director of film, television and theatre.
Jason Moore (director)
Jason Moore( born October 22, 1970) is an American director of film, theatre and television.
Olav Aaraas
Olav Aaraas( born 10 July 1950) is a Norwegian historian and museum director.
He was born in Fredrikstad.
From 1982 to 1993 he was the director of Sogn Folk Museum, from 1993 to 2010 he was the director of Maihaugen and from 2001 he has been the director of the Norwegian Museum of Cultural History.
In 2010 he was decorated with the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav.
Ian Barry (director)
Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV.
An American Tragedy (film)
An American Tragedy is a 1931 pre-Code drama film and directed by Josef von Sternberg.
It was produced and distributed by Paramount Pictures.
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.
The film performed well at the box office.
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, and starring Montgomery Clift, Shelley Winters, and Elizabeth Taylor.
The 1951 film version of the novel changed the names of the characters from those of the novel and the earlier film version.
Carl Haber
Carl Haber( born 1956) is an American filmmaker and professor of film.
Haber has had a career as a writer, director and producer in independent film.
An American who has spent a good part of his life out of America, and married to a European, he is also a professor of film courses and has recently founded the Rome International Film School.
Josef von Sternberg
Josef von Sternberg (born Jonas Sternberg, 29 May 1894 – 22 December 1969) was an Austrian-American filmmaker whose career successfully spanned the transition from the silent to the sound era, during which he worked with most of the major Hollywood studios.
He is best known for his film collaboration with actress Marlene Dietrich in the 1930s, including the highly regarded Paramount/UFA production, "The Blue Angel" (1930).
Sternberg's finest works are noteworthy for their striking pictorial compositions, dense décor, chiaroscuro illumination and relentless camera motion, endowing the scenes with emotional intensity.
He is also credited with initiating the gangster film genre with his silent era movie "Underworld" (1927).
Sternberg's themes typically offer the spectacle of an individual's desperate struggle to maintain their personal integrity as they sacrifice themselves for lust or love.
He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director for "Morocco" (1930) and "Shanghai Express" (1932).
Brian Kennedy (gallery director)
Brian Patrick Kennedy( born 5 November 1961) is an Irish- born art museum director who has worked in Ireland and Australia, and now lives and works in the United States.
He is currently the director of the Peabody Essex Museum.
He was the director of the Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio from 2010 to 2019.
He was the director of the Hood Museum of Art from 2005 to 2010, and the National Gallery of Australia( Canberra) from 1997- 2004.

Question: Where did the director of film An American Tragedy (Film) die?
Answer: Hollywood