<Tr> <Th> Box office </Th> <Td> $7,000,000 </Td> </Tr> <P> A Place in the Sun is a 1951 American drama film based on the 1925 novel An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser and the 1926 play, also titled An American Tragedy . It tells the story of a working - class young man who is entangled with two women; one who works in his wealthy uncle's factory and the other a beautiful socialite . Another adaptation of the novel had been filmed once before, as An American Tragedy, in 1931 . </P> <P> A Place in the Sun was directed by George Stevens from a screenplay by Harry Brown and Michael Wilson, and stars Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, and Shelley Winters; its supporting actors included Anne Revere, and Raymond Burr . </P> <P> The film was a critical and commercial success, winning six Academy Awards and the first ever Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture--Drama . In 1991, A Place in the Sun was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". </P>

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