List of the best Dee Pollak movies: It Grows on Trees(1952), Take a Giant Step(1959), Carousel(1956) ... ...
Fantasy
USA
1952
84 Minutes
Irene Dunne Dean Jagger Joan Evans Richard Crenna Edith Meiser Sandy Descher Dee Pollak Les Tremayne Malcolm Lee Beggs Forrest Lewis Frank Ferguson
What happens when an American family gets two trees that grow spendable money.
Drama
USA
1959
100 Minutes
Johnny Nash Estelle Hemsley Ruby Dee Frederick O'Neal Ellen Holly Paulene Myers Beah Richards Royce Wallace Frances Foster Delmar Erickson Dee Pollak
african-american teenager grandmother housekeeper mother classmate prostitute emotional brooding engaging powerful high school family home bar apartment teen angst racial tension culture clash rebellion grandparent/child relationship fitting in
A black high school senior struggles with becoming a man, and living in a middle class white neighborhood in the late 1950s U.S. In protest of the paternalistic views of the Civil War ... See full summary »
Musical
USA
1956
128 Minutes
Gordon MacRae Shirley Jones Cameron Mitchell Barbara Ruick Claramae Turner Robert Rounseville Gene Lockhart Audrey Christie Susan Luckey William LeMassena John Dehner
carousel barker mill worker husband wife emotional melodramatic maine coast carousel romance unemployment pregnancy crime jealousy love fall 1950s
Fifteen years after his death, a carousel barker is granted permission to return to Earth for one day to make amends to his widow and their daughter.