Street Angel

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Street Angel
Directed by Frank Borzage
Written by Philip Klein
Henry Roberts Symonds
Starring Janet Gaynor
Charles Farrell
Alberto Rabagliati
Release date(s) April 9, 1928
Running time 102 min.
Country Flag of United States United States
Language silent film
English intertitles
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Street Angel is a 1928 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 novel 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.