Back Street

1932
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1h 33m

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A woman's love for and devotion to a married man results in her being relegated to the "back streets" of his life.A woman's love for and devotion to a married man results in her being relegated to the "back streets" of his life.A woman's love for and devotion to a married man results in her being relegated to the "back streets" of his life.

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Back Street

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This picture is based on a novel by the popular writer Fannie Hurst. It's interesting that her story was about the stresses of a clandestine life while married. In 1915 she secretly married a Russian émigré pianist. She hid the marriage from the public, keeping her maiden name and separate residences. It became a scandal after it was discovered in 1920. Hurst wouldn't budge. She maintained her name, and her own home, until his death in 1952. She mourned his loss for the remaining 16 years of her life, writing letters to him weekly and always sporting a calla lily, the first flower he'd sent her.

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Ray Schmidt: I know myself so well: it's all the way or zero with me.

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Cincinnati - in the good old days before the Eighteenth Amendment

Connections
Featured in The Universal Story (1996)

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Back Street review

A vivacious young woman passes up herself chance of happiness with a reliable but unexciting man to live in the shadow of her lover, a successful but thoughtless businessman. A weepy melodrama that fails to work on our emotions due to a lack of chemistry between the two leads. Dunne's character doesn't seem the type to throw away her life on a man whose position (unconvincingly) means he is unable to declare his love for her, while Boles seems to be enjoying the best of both worlds rather than enduring the life of emotional frustration that he's supposed to be