Normally dialogue has a lot to do with romantic chemistry in movies, so it really says something, I think, when a couple like Janet and Charles can create movies as powerful as this without a single spoken word. The last scene of this movie is breathtaking... The way they look at each other says more than words! They were wonderful together. Wish some of their other movies were more easily available!
Gale Manning, I agree on all counts! The scene where Angela tells Gino it's time to say goodnight is so heartbreaking, because he doesn't know why she's so sad. You can tell he's saying, "not yet" and the way she holds his face and looks into his eyes is just . . . I have no words. On a side note, Charles Farrell did actually propose to Janet Gaynor during production of this film. She turned him down, even though she returned his affection.
Having seen "Seventh Heaven", "Sunrise" and now "Street Angel", any single one of those films warranted the Oscar she received. Her performances in all three make her one of the greatest onscreen performers ever. With a lot of performers, if you've seen one of their performances, you've seen them all. Not so with Janet Gaynor (and even Charles Farrell). She is three completely different characters in all three of those Oscar-winning films. (And having just watched her in "Lucky Star", that's another completely different type of character.)
I am taking a course called The Language of Hollywood: Storytelling, Sound, and Color, on the coursera. The instructor asked us to watch the Street Angle as the assignment. Thanks for sharing the classical movie.
This is one of the greatest of American Silents of the late 20's. In-fact I had it listed years ago as my second favorite Silent Drama behind only THE BIG PARADE. I wish that the surviving prints were not 5 generations removed from the original nitrate ones. The Movie-tone score is tremendous. "Angela Mia" written by Erno Rapee' and Lew Pollack became a big hit song, just as My Diane had been for SEVENTH HEAVEN in 1927. Gaynor and Farrell were pure magic together on screen.
Thank you for uploading this! I have seen Seventh Heaven and Sunrise, but Street Angel was hard to find. Now I have seen all three of the films that Janet Gaynor won the first Best Actress Oscar for.
I am showing this to my 86 yr old Mom who I am visiting in her nursing home. She gave me my love of movies. I wasn't sure she'd be able to follow it but she is totally entranced. I am so glad to get to share this with her. PS great soundtrack!
Silent films were at their peak, artistically, by 1928. What they were able to do with sets, lighting and atmosphere. No computers. Adela Rogers St. John said that in the silent film we had a high art of pantomime. The stunning visual context of film was lost for several years with the advent of sound. We must preserve these treasures.
This is what makes Coursera great. Not only do we get to watch movies we'd never think of seeing, we get to share what we thought of the assignments. Ya gotta love it.
Thanks for sharing. I liked the social realism of this film's opening. I wish that had been more explored in the middle of the film. Instead, the romance of Charles Farrell & Janet Gaynor's characters dominated that section. But social stigma remains a theme the film tackles well. I like the liberalism it preaches- there's always an explanation behind the end result... I liked the carnival atmosphere too. Janet Gaynor is just so emotive and stunning to watch. Her chemistry with Charles Farrell is fastly making them my favourite silent era screen couple!
Greetings from India. Started with this course. And this movie has opened doors of Classic Cinema to me. Brilliant movie. One just requires sight to understand a movie.
This silent film more than almost any other demonstrates vast, smooth and sweeping camera movement in many if the outdoor scenes. This was created by mounting the camera on a giant turntable device manually controlled by stagehands. The camera was mounted on a rail on top of the turntable that enabled it to move forward and backwards, thus allowing Borzage to create these incredible and well timed long shots.
Haven't seen this for a while. Some parts I had forgotten. Beautiful film. Interesting points of convergence with Ladies of Leisure. Both involve a painter working on a portrait that transforms the model. LofL contains one of Barbara Stanwyck's few roles of a woman with a very vulnerable side. It's nice in SA seeing Janet Gaynor play a woman with a tough side.
A true masterpiece very well written, acted and directed.....thank goodness a happy ending also ! As a writer director myself I appreciated the romanticism within which is a rarety in today's slapped together movies. It really GRIPS you and the violins certainly make up for sub titles. I truly wish I had made so lovely a film !
Thanks for sharing. Saved me alot of time. I already started the course a week late and not having to look long and hard for this movie helps. thank you ,very much.
It seems we, Coursera students, are many here. Thanks for sharing this movie. It helps a lot. BTW, I am Muhsin from Nigeria. I am at present in India doing M.A in Theatre and Television.
Magnífica película, mucho mejor que lo que hacen ahora a pesar de tanta tecnología. Janet Gaynor maravillosa, es la primera vez que la veo. Rest in peace.
Não acredito que achei esse filme! Assisti na primeira vez que fui ao Cine Olympia, o cinema mais antigo em funcionamento no Brasil e um dos meus lugares favoritos! Estou emocionada, devo admitir. Sou apaixonada por este filme.
Another Movietone sound-on-film production, becoming popular as theatres made the conversion from silent to sound movies. Janet Gaynor was great, as usual, regardless of the role. She got the Oscar for three films, but any one of them would have sufficed. She was Fox's most durable star, from silent to sound and on to 20th Century-Fox.
🤭 damn the ending tho. I love the movie, very beautiful and sad im happy everythin worked out in the end. That scene tho was very scary. Love Janet and Farrell ❤️
I wonder if someone at that time really felt that the only and real crime committed by this woman was leaving the man she loved without telling him the truth, the reason why, condemning him to desperation...I wonder if someone could have been so smart in the 20s..director included
Greetings from Los Angeles, California! I am from Puerto Rico but I live in LA! I am half-way through this film right now. I am loving it!! Thank you for uploading this on You Tube!! Trivia: this is one of the 3 films that Janet Gaynor was nominated for Best Actress (Oscar) for 1927-28! (Back when they did acting nominations for more than ONE movie!... -- the other movies were "Sunrise"(1927) and "Seventh Heaven" (1928).
Normally dialogue has a lot to do with romantic chemistry in movies, so it really says something, I think, when a couple like Janet and Charles can create movies as powerful as this without a single spoken word. The last scene of this movie is breathtaking... The way they look at each other says more than words! They were wonderful together. Wish some of their other movies were more easily available!
Gale Manning, I agree on all counts! The scene where Angela tells Gino it's time to say goodnight is so heartbreaking, because he doesn't know why she's so sad. You can tell he's saying, "not yet" and the way she holds his face and looks into his eyes is just . . . I have no words. On a side note, Charles Farrell did actually propose to Janet Gaynor during production of this film. She turned him down, even though she returned his affection.
I love your profile picture. Mary Pickford was a wonder of the silver screen in its early days ❤
7th Heaven is not hard to find.
Neither is Sunrise, which is great too, but with a different ( also incredibly handsome) male lead.
One of the most beautiful movies i've ever seen!
Having seen "Seventh Heaven", "Sunrise" and now "Street Angel", any single one of those films warranted the Oscar she received. Her performances in all three make her one of the greatest onscreen performers ever. With a lot of performers, if you've seen one of their performances, you've seen them all. Not so with Janet Gaynor (and even Charles Farrell). She is three completely different characters in all three of those Oscar-winning films. (And having just watched her in "Lucky Star", that's another completely different type of character.)
I am taking a course called The Language of Hollywood: Storytelling, Sound, and Color, on the coursera. The instructor asked us to watch the Street Angle as the assignment. Thanks for sharing the classical movie.
I ended up here for the same reason
Ditto!
me too!
Yup
Same with me
Beautiful!
The end is just amazing, The photography and the sets are too cool!
The acting is Optimum!
This is one of the greatest of American Silents of the late 20's. In-fact I had it listed years ago as my second favorite Silent Drama behind only THE BIG PARADE. I wish that the surviving prints were not 5 generations removed from the original nitrate ones. The Movie-tone score is tremendous. "Angela Mia" written by Erno Rapee' and Lew Pollack became a big hit song, just as My Diane had been for SEVENTH HEAVEN in 1927. Gaynor and Farrell were pure magic together on screen.
Beautiful movie, but very sad. Thanks for sharing this very old work!
Thank you all!
Thank you for uploading this! I have seen Seventh Heaven and Sunrise, but Street Angel was hard to find. Now I have seen all three of the films that Janet Gaynor won the first Best Actress Oscar for.
NOW and forever you will be mine 🎶
When she saw the painting my heart melted 😢
Thank you I love these old movies. They always portrayed love so wholesome as it should be. I will definitely watch this several times.
thanks for sharing this movie. To watch it is an assignment on the Coursera course I'm taking.
me too!
Robin Gillmore Me too!
Tat van O and me, I am Barbz from New Zealand, what a great movie
I´m taking it too, Im Bruno from Curitiba, Brasil.
Thanks a lot for making it possible to see it for Coursera!
WONDERFUL! They don't make them like this anymore. Thank you for posting
This is the first silent film I ever watched.....WoW!
I am showing this to my 86 yr old Mom who I am visiting in her nursing home. She gave me my love of movies. I wasn't sure she'd be able to follow it but she is totally entranced. I am so glad to get to share this with her. PS great soundtrack!
Im glad to see that we're all watching this a week later than we should have done :P
Silent films were at their peak, artistically, by 1928. What they were able to do with sets, lighting and atmosphere. No computers. Adela Rogers St. John said that in the silent film we had a high art of pantomime. The stunning visual context of film was lost for several years with the advent of sound. We must preserve these treasures.
So many emotions, wow! Beautiful movie!
This is what makes Coursera great. Not only do we get to watch movies we'd never think of seeing, we get to share what we thought of the assignments. Ya gotta love it.
What a great film!!! I loved the ending!!! The music was lovely as well as the performance of the main characters!!
One of the best movies I’ve ever seen
Thanks for sharing. I liked the social realism of this film's opening. I wish that had been more explored in the middle of the film. Instead, the romance of Charles Farrell & Janet Gaynor's characters dominated that section. But social stigma remains a theme the film tackles well. I like the liberalism it preaches- there's always an explanation behind the end result... I liked the carnival atmosphere too. Janet Gaynor is just so emotive and stunning to watch. Her chemistry with Charles Farrell is fastly making them my favourite silent era screen couple!
what an experience...watching this silent movie. I love old movies. greeting from Indonesia
Esse é o filme que o Lampião assistiu no cinema.
Greetings from India. Started with this course. And this movie has opened doors of Classic Cinema to me. Brilliant movie. One just requires sight to understand a movie.
This silent film more than almost any other demonstrates vast, smooth and sweeping camera movement in many if the outdoor scenes. This was created by mounting the camera on a giant turntable device manually controlled by stagehands. The camera was mounted on a rail on top of the turntable that enabled it to move forward and backwards, thus allowing Borzage to create these incredible and well timed long shots.
The final scene was especially heartbreaking.
Haven't seen this for a while. Some parts I had forgotten. Beautiful film. Interesting points of convergence with Ladies of Leisure. Both involve a painter working on a portrait that transforms the model. LofL contains one of Barbara Stanwyck's few roles of a woman with a very vulnerable side. It's nice in SA seeing Janet Gaynor play a woman with a tough side.
excellent cinematography .masterpice
A true masterpiece very well written, acted and directed.....thank goodness a happy ending also ! As a writer director myself I appreciated the romanticism within which is a rarety in today's slapped together movies. It really GRIPS you and the violins certainly make up for sub titles. I truly wish I had made so lovely a film !
Thanks for sharing. Saved me alot of time. I already started the course a week late and not having to look long and hard for this movie helps. thank you ,very much.
It seems we, Coursera students, are many here. Thanks for sharing this movie. It helps a lot. BTW, I am Muhsin from Nigeria. I am at present in India doing M.A in Theatre and Television.
Magnífica película, mucho mejor que lo que hacen ahora a pesar de tanta tecnología. Janet Gaynor maravillosa, es la primera vez que la veo. Rest in peace.
Janet Gaynor, such a talented wonderful actress.
Im related to frank borzage through my moms side of the family..just found out, no wonder I want to work in the movie industry.
we both have family involved and also a Daniel
Fantastic, great, wonderful, tender... thanks for upload.
my god... she was so beautiful... indescribably so.
Não acredito que achei esse filme! Assisti na primeira vez que fui ao Cine Olympia, o cinema mais antigo em funcionamento no Brasil e um dos meus lugares favoritos! Estou emocionada, devo admitir. Sou apaixonada por este filme.
Esse filme é lindo!
Que legal ! Esse filme foi assistido por Lampião no cinema. será que foi esse mesmo cinema? hahaha vou pesquisar.
Love this movie with Janet Gaynor in it!
Thanks a lot for sharing!!! I've glad to see so many people from our course.
Thank you very much for this classic.
Hahahaha, Coursera! (I'm glad I'm not the only one catching up on the classes!) ;)
Nice.What a glorious world.
M taking a course about Hollywood on coursera. Thanks for sharing this movie.
I don't like silent film but I love this one
Loved this film , it often crosses my mind ❤️
I love the soundtrack in this one. I'm glad they didn't use some boring piano music.
Hi, coursera too,
Thanks to put that beautiful Movie online.
Greetings from Paris
Hi coursera, same class too.
Thank you to put this wonderful movie on-line. Greetings from Paris !
Another Movietone sound-on-film production, becoming popular as theatres made the conversion from silent to sound movies. Janet Gaynor was great, as usual, regardless of the role. She got the Oscar for three films, but any one of them would have sufficed. She was Fox's most durable star, from silent to sound and on to 20th Century-Fox.
the melody of the song by Elvis was taken from an Italian song - O sole mio!
🤭 damn the ending tho. I love the movie, very beautiful and sad im happy everythin worked out in the end. That scene tho was very scary. Love Janet and Farrell ❤️
Janet Gaynor is always fantastic!
+Elizabeth B. pretty
I"m not a big fan of silent movies but this one was quite good.
Im in the class too! Thanks for sharing~
Thanks for sharing !!!
Tfs. I am not taking a film course. I appreciate the art of telling a good story. Borage, Farrell, Gaynor were artists.
Nice to see fellow classmates , greetings from Blacktown , NSW ( Australia )
I never even thought I'd find so many Courserians on here!:)
Thanks from a courserian from India!
it was very emotional
My Grandfather co-wrote the adapted screenplay. Henry Robert Symonds ...husband of my Grandma Helen .😘
Thanks. I am also taking the Coursera class. I am from Taiwan.
Same class!! Greetings from Dominican Republic!!
What a humongous misunderstanding that was
record 3 movie 1927/28 janet gaynor oscar nomination : seventh heaven, sunrise, street Angel
Coursera brought me here, too! Was downloading an HD Bluray rip(surprisingly high quality prints of this movie remained) but its taking too long :(
Coursera!! haha I love this course. Hi from Mexico people :)
Hello Courserians, I'm from Italy !
I'm watching this for my Coursera class too
I wonder if someone at that time really felt that the only and real crime committed by this woman was leaving the man she loved without telling him the truth, the reason why, condemning him to desperation...I wonder if someone could have been so smart in the 20s..director included
IS 1970 AND THEY HAVEN'T CONVERTED THE MOVIE TO A TALKIE ONE. I'LL KEEP WAITING.
Hello coursera! Beautiful movie!
Greetings from Argentina!
Hi~ Thank you for sharing :) I also took the course about Hollywood on coursera~
Greetings from Los Angeles, California! I am from Puerto Rico but I live in LA! I am half-way through this film right now. I am loving it!! Thank you for uploading this on You Tube!! Trivia: this is one of the 3 films that Janet Gaynor was nominated for Best Actress (Oscar) for 1927-28! (Back when they did acting nominations for more than ONE movie!... -- the other movies were "Sunrise"(1927) and "Seventh Heaven" (1928).
Very good movie
I am watching this for my coursera class :)
Greetings from Brasil!
Also watching for Cousera !!!
what is the song of this movie? i love it so muchhh
yeah we are in the same class at coursera!!
Me too!!! Thanks for posting :)
SHE actually did anything illegal
Here to watch for Coursera... :)
Me too- I am from California.
Nice
Have you the informer 1935
Yay, more people from Brazil! :D
Hey, Coursera! Greetings from Mexico!
I'm taking a Coursera course as well!!
Gaynor 3 movies in 1927 oscar: street angel, sunrise and 7 heaven.
Hello everyone from Paris ;)
Janet Gaynor LOVE YOU ma'am LOVE YOU
A masterpiece like Lucky Star and what's left of the erotic The River
im watching for class :D
such a great course!
I have to do this for class......i can't wait #Sarcasm
Why do we have to look at an image of Gabriel Coelho's face for the entire duration of this wonderful movie? Is he some kind of narcissist?
Hi Corsera, kind'a late here :(
Igual de Coursera... saludos desde México :)
Hello everybody....
guess i am a bit late but tryin' to catch up with the course! =)
how do i get your face of it.
The Language of Hollywood: Storytelling, Sound, and Color? lol