Street Angel (1928) on Netflix
In Naples, Angela has no money for her ailing mother's medicine. Caught snatching coins in a café, she is arrested, escapes, and joins a traveling circus, where she meets Gino, a painter.
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Plot summary
Angela cares for her gravely ill mother in Naples and cannot pay for the medicine the doctor prescribes. Desperate, she copies the manner of a streetwalker she has seen, but the men she approaches only laugh at her. In a small café she reaches for a customer's loose change, and the shopkeeper and Police Sergeant Neri catch her in the act. A court gives her a year in the workhouse. She slips away from the two carabineers escorting her and leaves the city, finding shelter with a poor caravan circus run by Mascetto, who puts her on stilts and in sideshow turns. There she meets Gino, a struggling painter who has joined the troupe to paint its banners and signs.
Cast
- Guido Trentoas Neri the Police Sergeant
- Gino Contias Policeman
- Louis Liggettas Beppo
- Helena Hermanas Andrea
- Dave Kashneras The Strong Man
- Jennie Brunoas Landlady
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Street Angel (1928)
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- A riot broke out when Street Angel was shown in Naples in 1928, where it is set, and Benito Mussolini replaced the censors who had passed it and banned further showings in Italy. At the Italian government's request in 1929, France banned the film throughout Morocco.
- Janet Gaynor won the first Academy Award for Best Actress in 1929 for three films, and Street Angel was one of them. The others were F. W. Murnau's Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans and Borzage's 7th Heaven.
- Street Angel received two more Oscar nominations at the 1930 ceremony, for Best Art Direction and Best Cinematography, making it one of only two English-language films to be nominated in separate years. The other was The Quiet One.
