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Janet Gaynor.
Photograph by Max Munn Autrey;
Silent Era image collection.
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Street Angel
Also known as L’Ange de la rue in France : {The Street Angel}
(1928) United States of America
B&W : Ten reels / 9221 feet
Directed by Frank Borzage
Cast: Janet Gaynor [Angela], Charles Farrell [Gino], Henry Armetta [Mascetto], Natalie Kingston [Lisetta], Alberto Rabagliati [a policeman], Gino Conti [a policeman], Guido Trento [Neri, the police sergeant], Louis Liggett [Beppo], Milton Dickinson [Bimbo], Helena Herman [Andrea], David Kashner [the strong man], Jennie Bruno [the landlady]
Fox Film Corporation production; distributed by Fox Film Corporation. / Executive producer, William Fox. Screenplay by Marion Orth, from the adaptation by Philip Klein and Henry Roberts Symonds of the play Cristilinda by J. Monckton Hoffe. Assistant director, Lew Borzage. Cinematography by Ernest Palmer. Film editor, Barney Wolf. Intertitles written by Katherine Hilliker and H.H. Caldwell. Presented by William Fox. / © 3 April 1928 by Fox Film Corporation [LP25115]. Premiered 9 April 1928 in New York, New York. General release, 19 August 1928. / Movietone 35mm spherical 1.20:1 format (sound version) and Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format (silent version). Western Electric Movietone sound-on-film synchronized sound system. / Academy Award® winner for Actress (Gaynor) for her work in Street Angel, with 7th Heaven (1927) and Sunrise (1927). [?] AFI-F2 n. F2.5435 notes that some sources list the character names of Maria for Gaynor, Angelo for Farrell, Rio for Trento, and Nina for Kingston. / Silent film, with synchronized music and sound effects.
Drama.
Synopsis: Synopsis available by AFI-F2 n. F2.5435.
Survival status: Print exists.
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Artists - Circuses - Italy: Naples - Prisons - Synchronized sound film
Listing updated: 31 January 2025.
References: Film credits, film viewing : AFI-F2 n. F2.5435; Everson-American pp. 208, 246p, 310s, 323, 327; Gallagher-Ford p. 58; Leish-Cinema p. 53; Limbacher-Feature p. 236; Maltin-Classic p. 668; McCaffrey-Guide p. 12; Shipman-Cinema pp. 97, 98; Vermilye-Twenties p. 179 : ClasIm-305 p. 48 : Website-AFI.
Home video: DVD.
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[The Film Daily, 4 January 1929, page 4] “The Street Angel” topped the year’s grosses at the Roxy, garnering $144,000 the week ended Aug. 4, according to “Variety’s” estimates. This is an all-time picture house high. The record is remarkable because this was the third week of its Roxy run, the picture having chalked up $126,000 and $121,000 respectively in the first two weeks at this theater which marked second Broadway run of the picture, the first at $2 top. Compilations of “Variety’s” box office estimates, covering every section of the nation, is a feature of The 1929 Film Daily Year Book, to be issued this month.
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