Co-presented by The Chicago Film Society | Live accompaniment by Music Box house organist Dennis Scott

Frank Borzage reaches a resplendent apex in STREET ANGEL, in which Neapolitan urchin Angela (Janet Gaynor) turns amateur streetwalker after her mother falls ill. Fleeing the police, she joins a gypsy circus and meets romantic painter Gino (Charles Farrell). When the authorities finally catch up with the lovers, Gino's portrait of Angela becomes a transcendent conduit for two souls blooming in adversity's shadow. A follow-up to the smash 7TH HEAVEN, with a heavy helping of Expressionist visual finesse cribbed from F.W. Murnau, STREET ANGEL was a tremendous popular success in its own right.