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.
Street Scene
“The simple story of LIFE through the window pane of the house across the street.”
Cast
Sylvia Sidney
Rose Maurrant
William Collier Jr.
Sam Kaplan
Estelle Taylor
Mrs. Anna Maurrant
Beulah Bondi
Emma Jones
David Landau
Mr. Frank Maurrant
Matt McHugh
Vincent Jones
Russell Hopton
Steve Sankey
Greta Granstedt
Mae Jones
Eleanor Wesselhoeft
Marguerite 'Greta' Fiorentino
John Qualen
Karl Olsen (as John M. Qualen)
Allen Fox
Dick McGann (as Allan Fox)
Nora Cecil
Alice Simpson - Welfare Worker
Margaret Robertson
Minor Role
Walter James
Police Marshal James Henry
Max Montor
Abe Kaplan
Walter Miller
Bert Easter - Rose's Boss
T.H. Manning
George Jones
Conway Washburne
Danny Buchanan
Ann Kostant
Shirley Kaplan
Adele Watson
Olga Olsen
Lambert Rogers
Willie Maurrant
George Humbert
Filippo Fiorentino
Helen Lovett
Laura Hildebrand
Richard Powell
Officer Harry Murphy
Jane Mercer
Minor Role
Monte Carter
Minor Role (as Monti Carter)
Harry Wallace
Fred Cullen
Virginia Davis
Florence Enright
Marcia Mae Jones
Tiny Jones
Dorothy Vernon
Eric Mayne
Louis Natheaux
Buddy Roosevelt
