Street Scene
1931The 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.
Acted in
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
Virginia Davis
Florence Enright
Marcia Mae Jones
Tiny Jones
Dorothy Vernon
Eric Mayne
Louis Natheaux
Buddy Roosevelt