Chicago, IL: STREET ANGEL (1928)
Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2018 1:39 pm
https://musicboxtheatre.com/films/street-angel
Saturday, November 17 at 11:30am CST
at the
Music Box Theatre
3733 N. Southport Ave.
Chicago, IL 60613
Saturday, November 17 at 11:30am CST
at the
Music Box Theatre
3733 N. Southport Ave.
Chicago, IL 60613
STREET ANGEL
A FILM BY: FRANK BORZAGE
WRITTEN BY: MONCKTON HOFFE (PLAY), PHILIP KLEIN (ADAPTATION)
STARRING: JANET GAYNOR, CHARLES FARRELL, NATALIE KINGSTON
Co-presented by The Chicago Film Society | Live accompaniment by Music Box house organist Dennis Scott
Frank Borzage reaches a resplendent apex in Street Angel, in which Neapolitan urchin Angela (Janet Gaynor) turns amateur streetwalker after her mother falls ill. Fleeing the police, she joins a gypsy circus and meets romantic painter Gino (Charles Farrell). When the authorities finally catch up with the lovers, Gino's portrait of Angela becomes a transcendent conduit for two souls blooming in adversity's shadow. A follow-up to the smash 7th Heaven, with a heavy helping of Expressionist visual finesse cribbed from F.W. Murnau, Street Angel was a tremendous popular success in its own right.