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.

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)

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