Street Scene
05/09/1931
1h 18m



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.
Cast


Sylvia Sidney
Rose Maurrant


William Collier Jr.
Sam Kaplan


Estelle Taylor
Mrs. Anna Maurrant


Beulah Bondi
Emma Jones


David Landau
Mr. Frank Maurrant


Matt McHugh
Vincent Jones


Russell Hopton
Steve Sankey


Greta Granstedt
Mae Jones
Eleanor Wesselhoeft
Marguerite 'Greta' Fiorentino


John Qualen
Karl Olsen (as John M. Qualen)
Allen Fox
Dick McGann (as Allan Fox)


Nora Cecil
Alice Simpson - Welfare Worker
Margaret Robertson
Minor Role


Walter James
Police Marshal James Henry
Max Montor
Abe Kaplan


Walter Miller
Bert Easter - Rose's Boss
T.H. Manning
George Jones
Conway Washburne
Danny Buchanan
Ann Kostant
Shirley Kaplan


Adele Watson
Olga Olsen
Lambert Rogers
Willie Maurrant


George Humbert
Filippo Fiorentino
Helen Lovett
Laura Hildebrand
Richard Powell
Officer Harry Murphy


Jane Mercer
Minor Role
Monte Carter
Minor Role (as Monti Carter)
Harry Wallace
Fred Cullen


Virginia Davis
Florence Enright


Marcia Mae Jones
Tiny Jones


Dorothy Vernon


Eric Mayne


Louis Natheaux


Buddy Roosevelt
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