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An American Tragedy is a american film of genre Drama directed by Josef von Sternberg released in USA on 22 august 1931 with Sylvia Sidney
An American Tragedy (1931)
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Add to a movie listAn 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 allegedly by Chester Gillette.
Before this film was made, a play version debuted on Broadway in 1926. In the cast was an unknown actress named Miriam Hopkins.
Actors
Sylvia Sidney
(Roberta 'Bert' Alden)
Phillips Holmes
(Clyde Griffiths)
Frances Dee
(Sondra Finchley)
Irving Pichel
(District Attorney Orville Mason)
Frederick Burton
(Samuel Griffiths)
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