Backdrop

Street Scene

The setting is a city block during a sweltering summer, where the residents serve as representatives of the not-very-idealized American melting pot. There is idle chitchat, gossip, jealousy, racism, adultery, and suddenly but not unexpectedly, a murder.

1931 |1h 18m |  Drama, Romance

Cast

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Sylvia Sidney

Rose Maurrant

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William Collier Jr.

Sam Kaplan

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Estelle Taylor

Mrs. Anna Maurrant

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Beulah Bondi

Emma Jones

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David Landau

Mr. Frank Maurrant

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Matt McHugh

Vincent Jones

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Russell Hopton

Steve Sankey

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Greta Granstedt

Mae Jones

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John Qualen

Karl Olsen (as John M. Qualen)

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Nora Cecil

Alice Simpson - Welfare Worker

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Walter James

Police Marshal James Henry

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Walter Miller

Bert Easter - Rose's Boss

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Adele Watson

Olga Olsen

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George Humbert

Filippo Fiorentino

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Jane Mercer

Minor Role

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Virginia Davis

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Marcia Mae Jones

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Dorothy Vernon

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Eric Mayne

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Louis Natheaux

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Buddy Roosevelt

More Details

Status

Released

Language

English

Budget

$584,000.00

Revenue

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