An American Tragedy

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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 allegedly 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.

Cast

Phillips Holmes - Clyde Griffiths
Sylvia Sidney - Roberta Alden
Frances Dee - Sondra Finchley
Irving Pichel - District Attorney
Frederick Burton - Samuel Griffiths
Claire McDowell - Mrs. Samuel Griffiths
Wallace Middleton - Gilbert Griffiths

Emmett Corrigan - Clyde's attorney
Charles B. Middleton - Clyde's second attorney
Lucille La Verne - Mrs. Asa Griffiths
Albert Hart - Titus Alden
Fanny Midgley - Mrs. Alden
Arnold Korff - The Judge
Russell Powell - The Coroner

An American Tragedy

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Cast

See also