Nominated for 2 Academy Awards in 1928-29:
- Best Actress
- Janet Gaynor
It won 1 Oscar out of a total of 1 nomination in 1927-28.
- Best Cinematography
- Ernest Palmer
- Best Art Direction
- Harry Oliver
It won 0 Oscars out of a total of 2 nominations in 1928-29.
Street Angel is the story of a young woman who is arrested for robbery and soliciting herself on the streets when she finds herself in desperate need of money. To avoid a one-year sentence in the workhouse, she flees the city and joins a vagabond in his traveling show, eventually falling in love with a painter. But after she sustains an injury and the two decide to settle down together, she must come face-to-face with her troubled past.
The film holds a special place in Academy history. It is the first of fifteen films to be competitively nominated in two separate years - the others being The Quiet One (1948), Through a Glass Darkly (1961), The Four Days of Naples (1962), Sundays and Cybele (1962), Marriage Italian Style (1964), The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964), Woman in the Dunes (1964), The Shop on Main Street (1965), The Battle of Algiers (1965), My Night at Maud's (1969), Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970), The Emigrants (1971), Day for Night (1973) and Amarcord (1973). Three additional films have been able to accomplish this feat non-competitively: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), In Which We Serve (1942) and Rashomon (1950).
This is quite unusual to occur, and it is unclear as to why it actually happened in this instance.
Editorial:
I joke about this film a lot, but in all fairness, it is really well done. It was not the best of Janet Gaynor's three performances that contributed to her Oscar win, but she does a great job in it. It is a charming, sweet story with good production value. Perhaps it is a little predictable, and a pretty safe approach to the subject matter at hand, but I have very few complaints.
Score | 04/10 | This motion picture is worth trying.
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