Street Angel (1928 film)

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name = Street Angel


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writer = Monckton Hoffe "(play)"
Philip Klein
Henry Roberts Symonds
starring = Janet Gaynor
Charles Farrell
Alberto Rabagliati
director = Frank Borzage
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distributor = Fox Film Corporation
released = April 9, fy|1928
runtime = 102 mins.
language = silent film
English intertitles
country = United States
imdb_id = 0019429
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"Street Angel" (1928) is a silent film about a spirited young woman (Janet Gaynor in an Oscar-winning performance) who finds herself destitute and on the streets before joining a traveling carnival, where she meets a vagabond painter (Charles Farrell).

Directed by Frank Borzage (pronounced "Bor-ZAY-gee"), the movie was adapted by H.H. Caldwell (titles), Katherine Hilliker (titles), Philip Klein, Marion Orth and Henry Roberts Symonds from the play "Lady Cristilinda" by Monckton Hoffe.

"Street Angel" won the Academy Award for Best Actress (Janet Gaynor) and was nominated for Best Art Direction and Best Cinematography. Oddly enough, the acting award was given in 1929 and the other two in 1930.

This was one of three movies that Gaynor received her Academy Award for in 1929; the others were F. W. Murnau's "Sunrise" and Borzage's "Seventh Heaven".