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  Elia Kazan

  regizor

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  Frank Davis

  scenarist
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  Tess Slesinger

  scenarist

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  Dorothy McGuire

  Katie Nolan
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  Joan Blondell

  Sissy Edwards
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  Peggy Ann Garner

  Francie Nolan
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  Ferike Boros

  Grandma Rommely
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  Lloyd Nolan

  Officer McShane

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  Martha Wentworth

  Sheila's Mother
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  Erskine Sanford

  Undertaker
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  James Dunn (I)

  Johnny Nolan aka The Brooklyn Thrush
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  Virginia Brissac

  Miss Tilford, First Teacher
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  J. Farrell MacDonald

  Carney The Junkman
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  Bobby Burns

  Library Patron
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  Alec Craig

  Werner

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  Ruth Nelson

  Miss McDonough
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  James Gleason (I)

  McGarrity
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  Jack Carr

  Undetermined
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  Jessie Arnold

  Nurse
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  Mae Marsh

  Tynmore Sister
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  Dink Trout

  Undetermined
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  Fernanda Eliscu

  Undetermined
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  Harry Harvey Jr.

  Herschel Knutson
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  John Alexander

  Steve Edwards
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  Ted Donaldson

  Neeley Nolan
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  B.S. Pully

  Christmas Tree Vendor