Street Scene

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.

Top Cast

Sylvia Sidney

Rose Maurrant

William Collier Jr.

Sam Kaplan

Estelle Taylor

Mrs. Anna Maurrant

Beulah Bondi

Emma Jones

David Landau

Mr. Frank Maurrant