IMDb RATING
7.0/10
1.1K
YOUR RATING
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.
Zasu Pitts
- Mrs. Dole
- (as Za Su Pitts)
Betty Blythe
- Gossip
- (uncredited)
Symona Boniface
- Lady at Casino
- (uncredited)
Bob Burns
- Horsecar Driver
- (uncredited)
Jack Chefe
- Casino Onlooker
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThis 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 emigre pianist. She hid the marriage from the public, keeping her maiden name and separate residences. It became a scandal when 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.
- Quotes
Ray Schmidt: I know myself so well: it's all the way or zero with me.
- Crazy creditsCincinnati - in the good old days before the Eighteenth Amendment
- ConnectionsFeatured in The Universal Story (1996)
Featured review
A great love story for all times
This is a typical Irene Dunne film. Like no one else, she had the ability to move hearts and set them crying, if not in tears, then at least the more emotionally. Her performances are always warm and tender and very deep in sincerity. This story was filmed several times, but Irene Dunne makes the first version, which outshines the others, even if they are more up to date. She falls in love with a married man, excellently played also here by John Bole, and it's difficult to imagine anyone doing the part better than he. He is Jewish and married properly with children, it's impossible for him to step out of the frame of impeccability, but it is as impossible for him to do without her as it is for her to live without him. He is a banker, so he makes the arrangement of having her available whenever in an apartment of her own, as a mistress always at hand. She agreed voluntarily to this, although she did have an option, a very regular childhood friend and well to do having proposed to her, but still she chose a very precarious Back Street existence, which would last for the rest of both lives. The film is heart-warmingly beautiful, you cannot resist it, and she would make many more roles like this, each one a great lesson of humanity.
helpful•32
- clanciai
- Sep 30, 2022
- How long is Back Street?Powered by Alexa
Details
Box office
- Budget
- $426,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 33 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
Contribute to this page
Suggest an edit or add missing content