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Back Street (1941)
Directed by Robert Stevenson
Overview
In turn-of-the-century Cincinnati, vibrant shop girl Ray Smith falls in love with banker Walter Saxel, who is engaged to a socially prominent woman. Inadvertently prevented from running away with Walter, Ray remains single but reunites with him five years later. Despite Walter being married and having a son, Ray becomes his mistress, and over the years suffers social ostracism and long stretches of solitude while waiting for their brief interludes together.
Length 89 minutes
Actors
Charles Boyer | Margaret Sullavan | Richard Carlson | Frank McHugh | Tim Holt | Frank Jenks | Esther Dale | Peggy Stewart | Samuel S. Hinds | Nell O'Day | Nella Walker | Cecil Cunningham | Irving Bacon | Howard C. Hickman | Mary Forbes | Charles Lane | Joseph Crehan | Dick Elliott | Ludwig Stössel | Selmer Jackson