A young social climber wins the heart of an heiress but his former girlfriend's pregnancy stands in the way of his ambition.
A Place in the Sun is of 2 hour(s) and 2 minute(s). It is Produced By: Paramount, George Stevens Jr. Productions. It was released on 1951-06-12. It has the tagline: Young people asking so much of life... taking so much of love! It has an average vote of 7.3 on TMDB.
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A look at NYC’s gentrification and growing inequality in a microcosm, Class Divide explores two distinct worlds that share the same Chelsea intersection – 10th Avenue and 26th Street. On one side of the avenue, the Chelsea-Elliot Houses have provided low-income public housing to residents for decades. Their neighbor across the avenue since 2012 is Avenues: The World School, a costly private school. What happens when kids from both of these worlds attempt to cross the divide?
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It has an average vote of 6.6 on TMDB.
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Jerry Mulligan is an exuberant American expatriate in Paris trying to make a reputation as a painter. His friend Adam is a struggling concert pianist who's a long time associate of a famous French singer, Henri Baurel. A lonely society woman, Milo Roberts, takes Jerry under her wing and supports him, but is interested in more than his art.
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