William Fox
presents
Frank Borzage's
Street Angel
with
Janet Gaynor
and
Charles Farrell
Adapted by
Philip Klein
and Henry Roberts Symonds
From a play by
Monckton Hoffe
Continuity by
Marion Orth
Production editors
Katharine Hilliker
and H. H. Caldwell
Passed by the National Board of Review
Copyright Fox Film Corporation MCMXXVIII
Assistant directors
Lew Borzage
Ralph Kaufman
Photographed by by
Ernest Palmer
Paul Ivano
Directed by
Frank Borzage
Settings by
Harry Oliver
Costumes designed by
Kathleen Kay
Technician
Alfredo Sabato
Film editor
Barney Wolf
The cast
| Angela | Janet Gaynor | |
| Gino | Charles Farrell | |
| Lisetta | Natalie Kingston | |
| Masetto | Henry Armetta | |
| Neri, Sergeant of Police | Guido Trento | |
| A Policeman | Alberto Ragabliati | |
Everywhere....in every town, in every street....we pass, unknowing, human souls made great by love and adversity.
Naples.....
Under the smoking menace of Vesuvius......laughter-loving, careless, sordid Naples.
"Thief! Circus vagabond! You stole my sausage!"
Circo Napolitano
"She was the most musical drum in Italy!"
"As I feared....your mother has a dangerous temperature. Get that prescription at once."
"It will cost about twenty lire."
"Si, si, Mama! I will be back soon with the medicine."
"Good....good evening!"
"Good....good evening!"
"For robbery, while soliciting on the streets...."
".....A year in the workhouse!"
"Coco! Salute the brave police!"
"I see love coming to you, Angela."
"Foolish Maria! Love makes people unhappy. Why should I seek trouble?"
"Love will find you, never fear! No woman escapes!"
"You must come.......quickly! A vagabond painter down the road is stealing the crowd from us!"
"Maria is telling my fortune....."
"I, too, can read the future! No supper unless we hold these sheep outside!"
"We were here first! Get out....you and your mangy goat!"
"Aha! What did I tell you? The lover is here!"
"There's no other place to ride."
"But I've joined the show!"
"What for?"
"I want to paint you."
"Bah! I don't like painters...I don't like men! Stick to your goats!"
"Let me drive. You go inside where it is warm."
"Maria and Beppo are lovers...always kissing. They make me sick!"
"I shall never be such a fool, I promise! Love....pah!"
"Love is like the measles. When it comes, you cannot stop it."
"Morning, noon and night you whistle and sing that song!"
"You make it hard for me to paint you, Angela."
"Always you wear a mask...to hide the soul that is in you."
"You are a dreamer! Paint me as I am!"
"So! At last I am allowed to see the great masterpiece!"
"She is lovely, Gino!"
"But I am not like that!"
"You are....to me."
"I wish I could be........always."
"Ten thousand devils! Kiss him if you must, but make haste!"
"Her ankle is broken!"
"What can we do? She needs a good doctor!"
"I will take her to one."
"Goodbye, Masetto. Thank you.....for everything."
)Singer
The Heavens sent you down to me from up above.
Angela mia, you are my guiding star,
A sweet Madonna that I honor and I love.
And I surrender each time you smile.
Angela mia, my pray'rs are answered now,
And I am thankful for Angela mia!
"Where are we going?"
"To Naples, of course!"
"Must we, Gino? Must we go to Naples?"
"Of course! There I can get commissions to paint...make money so we can be married!"
"We poor painters must eat, Signor. What do you offer?"
Colori
pane
Vino
paints
bread
Wine
"A great bargain! Giacomo can make an Old Master of it! It will sell for thousands!"
"Excuses.....always excuses! I want my rent!"
".....Gino is selling the painting! Soon he will be back.......with much money!"
"You turn up your nose at a girl like Lisetta....but she pays her rent!"
Macelleria Popolare
paints
bread
Wine
"But the food, Gino......where is it?"
"This time I will go!"
"Dio! They have robbed you! How will you eat? How will you paint?"
"I have seen a face I should remember....but I cannot place it."
"It will come to me......in time."
"It was more than a painting....it seemed alive and understanding, like a guardian angel...."
"Now that it is gone......I am afraid."
"So long as I have you, I can do it again! You are my inspiration!"
)Singer
Oh Marì, oh Marì!
Quante notti ho perduto per te.
Fammi dormir,
Stretto al seno un istante con te.
Oh Marì, oh Marì!
Quante notti ho perduto per te.
Fammi dormir,
Oh Marì, oh Marì!
Oh Marì, oh Marì!
Quante notti ho perduto per te.
Fammi dormir,
Stretto al seno un istante con te.
Oh Marì, oh Marì!
Quante notti ho perduto per te.
Fammi dormir,
Oh Marì, oh Marì!
"Perhaps...it wasn't her fault."
"That kind have only themselves to blame."
"You don't understand, Carissima...you are too pure at heart. Don't waste your thoughts on such ugliness."
"We are rich, Angela mia....and more to come!"
"Gino! You didn't rob a bank?"
"I am to paint the great mural for the Teatro San Carlo!"
"Angela! Will you marry me tomorrow?"
"They are tears of joy...life is going to be so wonderful!"
"Wait...you don't understand. I can't leave him this way!"
"....He doesn't know about me...and he loves me...."
"...If he knew I'd gone to prison, it would break his heart...he couldn't paint....."
"Give me one hour...then I will go with you."
"I won't run away again...I swear it!"
"Just one little hour....."
"I want to shut our happiness in, Gino......all to ourselves."
"Drink to the future, Angela!"
"To fame and fortune..."
"....And tomorrow, Angela! Tomorrow, with you!"
"To our love....our faith in each other....always!"
"What a glorious world it is after all!"
"Every great artist paints his wife. Will you sit for your portrait now, Signora?"
"Gino, the greatest painter in all Italy!"
"This is just the beginning! We are going to climb........higher and higher!"
"It is time to say goodnight, Gino."
"Please...then tomorrow will come sooner."
"Life together...what happiness!"
"And the babies, Angela..."
"A girl...a little rabbit like you...."
"...And a boy...a funny boy with big feet...like me!"
"Kiss me goodnight, Angela! Tomorrow is such a long time off!"
"I am happy...happy because of your good fortune...."
"But it's our good fortune, Angela. You and I together.....always!"
"Always, Gino...I will be with you...always!"
"What's the use of mooning over that one? She's no better than I am!"
"How can you be so happy...here?"
"Because....out in the world the one I love is doing great things!"
"We have engaged another artist to paint the mural."
"Oho! So this is where you've been all these months!"
"A street angel......like me!"
"Another Old Master. It was discovered about a year ago."
"It is undoubtedly the Vianotti that disappeared in the 18th century, Monsignor."
"Come on down......with me!"
Roberti
"He was a failure....they dismissed him."
"I've just left an old friend of yours."
"You remember Angela?"
"In prison...what for?"
"For robbery, while soliciting on the streets!"
"Why should I lie? Go to the prison and find out for yourself!"
"He went away after you left...they say to the devil!"
"So that's the way you paint now...on café tables!"
"I will paint again!"
"Once I painted a girl as I thought she was...."
"...Now I'm going to paint women as they really are!"
"I shall find a girl with the face of an angel....."
"......And a soul as black as hell!"
"Look for her on the wharves...there are plenty to pick from there!"
"To think that I painted you...."
"....Like that!"
"But I am like that still..."
"You must believe me, Gino! Look in my eyes!"
)Singer
The Heavens sent you down to me from up above.
Angela mia, you are my guiding star,
A sweet Madonna that I honor and I love.
And I surrender each time you smile.
Angela mia, my pray'rs are answered now,
And I am thankful for Angela mia!
"Forgive me!"
The End
A Fox Production
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