Screenwriters: Michael Wilson, Harry Brown from the novel An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser

We’re excited to welcome back our Founding Member and forever bestie Author/ Film Historian/ Podcaster Karina Longworth for a special screening of George Stevens’ Oscar-winning true crime romantic drama A Place in the Sun! Karina will introduce the film and discuss how it fits into the new season of her award-winning podcast You Must Remember This, called The Bisexuals. 

Based a real murder case from the turn of the 20th century, this murderous melodrama starring Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift won four Academy Awards and the very first Golden Globe for Best Picture. How far would you go to climb society’s ladder and land Elizabeth Taylor? George Eastman (Montgomery Clift), the nephew of a wealthy industrialist, is excluded from high society and given a blue-collar job at his uncle’s factory. While ascending the ranks of the company, George becomes involved with co-worker Alice Tripp (Shelley Winters) leading to an unwanted pregnancy just as he has his sights set on the stunning socialite Angela Vickers (Elizabeth Taylor), leading to a tragic love triangle and a shocking ending! With romance, murder, social climbing, and some of the best performances of the era, this true crime classic has never left it’s place in the sun in 75 years!

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