Street Scene

Street Scene

78 mins | Drama, Romance | Sept. 5, 1931

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.

Street Scene

78 mins | Drama, Romance | Sept. 5, 1931

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.
IMDb rating 7.6
Producers United Artists, Feature Productions, Samuel Goldwyn Productions
Original title Street Scene
Directors King Vidor
Writers Elmer Rice

Cast

Sylvia Sidney

as Rose Maurrant

William Collier Jr.

as Sam Kaplan

Estelle Taylor

as Mrs. Anna Maurrant

Beulah Bondi

as Emma Jones

David Landau

as Mr. Frank Maurrant

Matt McHugh

as Vincent Jones

Russell Hopton

as Steve Sankey

Greta Granstedt

as Mae Jones

Eleanor Wesselhoeft

as Marguerite 'Greta' Fiorentino

John Qualen

as Karl Olsen (as John M. Qualen)

Allen Fox

as Dick McGann (as Allan Fox)

Nora Cecil

as Alice Simpson - Welfare Worker

Margaret Robertson

as Minor Role

Walter James

as Police Marshal James Henry

Max Montor

as Abe Kaplan

Walter Miller

as Bert Easter - Rose's Boss

T.H. Manning

as George Jones

Conway Washburne

as Danny Buchanan

Ann Kostant

as Shirley Kaplan

Adele Watson

as Olga Olsen

Lambert Rogers

as Willie Maurrant

George Humbert

as Filippo Fiorentino

Helen Lovett

as Laura Hildebrand

Richard Powell

as Officer Harry Murphy

Jane Mercer

as Minor Role

Monte Carter

as Minor Role (as Monti Carter)

Harry Wallace

as Fred Cullen