A Place in the Sun (1951) on Netflix
George Eastman takes a job at his wealthy uncle's bathing suit factory and secretly dates coworker Alice Tripp. At the family home he meets socialite Angela Vickers.
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George Eastman hitchhikes from Chicago to the bathing suit factory run by his wealthy uncle Charles Eastman, the company's president. Charles asks his son Earl, who holds a management post, to find George a place. Earl puts him in the assembly area and explains the rule against dating fellow employees. George works hard and sets down ideas for making the benches more productive. He starts seeing Alice Tripp, a coworker, without telling anyone. When Charles offers him a promotion and invites him to another party, George attends, feels out of place, and retreats to the billiard room. Angela Vickers, a debutante, finds him there, and the two talk, then dance. George is drawn to her world, and Alice, he learns, is pregnant.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about A Place in the Sun (1951)
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- The film's story was drawn from the real 1906 murder of Grace Brown by Chester Gillette, a case that ended with Gillette's conviction and his execution in the electric chair in 1908.
- A November 14, 1949 letter from the Production Code Administration's Joseph I. Breen objected to abortion references in the dialogue between Alice and her doctor, singling out Alice's line "Doctor, you've got to help me." In the finished film the line became "Somebody's got to help me."
- In 1965, director George Stevens threatened to sue any television stations that inserted commercials into A Place in the Sun without his approval.
- A Place in the Sun won six Academy Awards, including Best Director and Best Screenplay, and took the first-ever Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Drama.
- The white party dress designed by Edith Head for Elizabeth Taylor, with flower blossoms covering its bust, became the most popular prom dress style in the U.S. in 1951 and influenced prom and wedding-dress design for the rest of the decade.
- Raymond Burr's performance as a district attorney in the film so impressed TV producer Gail Patrick that she later cast him as Perry Mason.
