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Back Street

  • 1932
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  • 1h 33min
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Irene Dunne in Back Street (1932)
DramaMisterioRomance

Agrega una trama en tu idiomaA 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.

  • Dirección
    • John M. Stahl
  • Guionistas
    • Fannie Hurst
    • Gladys Lehman
    • Lynn Starling
  • Elenco
    • Irene Dunne
    • John Boles
    • George Meeker
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  • CALIFICACIÓN DE IMDb
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    • Dirección
      • John M. Stahl
    • Guionistas
      • Fannie Hurst
      • Gladys Lehman
      • Lynn Starling
    • Elenco
      • Irene Dunne
      • John Boles
      • George Meeker
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    • 10Opiniones de los críticos
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      • 3 premios ganados en total

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    Irene Dunne
    Irene Dunne
    • Ray Schmidt
    John Boles
    John Boles
    • Walter D. Saxel
    George Meeker
    George Meeker
    • Kurt Shendler
    Zasu Pitts
    Zasu Pitts
    • Mrs. Dole
    • (as Za Su Pitts)
    June Clyde
    June Clyde
    • Freda Schmidt
    William Bakewell
    William Bakewell
    • Richard Saxel - Walter's Son
    Arletta Duncan
    Arletta Duncan
    • Beth Saxel - Walter's Daughter
    Doris Lloyd
    Doris Lloyd
    • Corinne Saxel - Walter's Wife
    Paul Weigel
    Paul Weigel
    • Adolph Schmidt - Ray's Father
    Jane Darwell
    Jane Darwell
    • Mrs. Adolph Schmidt
    Shirley Grey
    Shirley Grey
    • Francine
    James Donlan
    James Donlan
    • Profhero
    Walter Catlett
    Walter Catlett
    • Bakeless
    Robert McWade
    Robert McWade
    • Uncle Felix
    Betty Blythe
    Betty Blythe
    • Gossip
    • (sin créditos)
    Symona Boniface
    Symona Boniface
    • Lady at Casino
    • (sin créditos)
    Bob Burns
    Bob Burns
    • Horsecar Driver
    • (sin créditos)
    Jack Chefe
    • Casino Onlooker
    • (sin créditos)
    • Dirección
      • John M. Stahl
    • Guionistas
      • Fannie Hurst
      • Gladys Lehman
      • Lynn Starling
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    8springfieldrental

    Irene Dunne's Phenomenal Performance as a Mistress

    Being a mistress to a married man is a thankless position to be in, according to one of early 1900's more popular novelists, Fanny Hurst. Her 1931 'Back Street was an enormously popular best-selling novel about a confident young woman in Cincinnati who's swept off her feet by a man about to get married. Universal Pictures took the bold step to bring Hurst's book onto the screen in August 1932's "Back Street." Irene Dunne plays the independent Ray Schmidt, whom in modern times was a cinch to be a highly successful business woman. Walter Saxel (John Boles), while stepping off a train a week before he conjoins with a rich socialite in the city, has the temerity to ask the strolling Ms. Schmidt out on a date. So begins Ray's slippery slope down a frustrating rat hole.

    Before divorce laws determined that either spouse could cite reasons to split, couples had to BOTH agree for the separation before the courts' ruled the marriage over. If one refused, then no divorce was granted. Many prominent figures, such as William Randolph Hearst and Spencer Tracy, failed to get their spouses to agree on a separation, and would, if the mistresses were lucky, shack up with them. According to "Back Street," playing second fiddle to a married man was a delusory, lonely life. In fact, the term "back streets" derives from Hurst's book. Ms. Schmidt informs her friend, who finds herself in a similar situation with a married man, that "there is no happiness on a back street in anyone's life." Ray Schmidt finds herself in this relationship because, to use a Blaise Pascal phrase, "the heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of."

    John Stahl's adroit direction is aided by, as film reviewer Antti Alanen notes, "Irene Dunne's extraordinary performance. Her film career had started but two years earlier, her performance here reflects she has already a mature approach of great charm, sophistication, and complexity." The American Film Institute nominated Stahl's work as one of 400 to be considered for the top 100 America's Greatest Love Stories.
    10jlanders13

    Masterful Performance

    This is one of Irene Dunne's finest performances and proves that even a soapbox opera can be engaging when a performance is so real it's uncanny. Her performance is almost overshadowed by the humaness and irony of the plot. I highly recommend this movie.
    7gbill-74877

    Irene Dunne shines

    "Your memory has followed me day and night, like a shadow."

    As sympathetic a portrayal of adultery as I think you're going to see, obviously only possible pre-Code, and with a fine performance from Irene Dunne. She plays a character who helps tend to an emergency with her sister one day, and is thus too late to meet a man (John Boles) and his mother in the park, losing her chance to become his fiancée. They've met each other too late, you see, and he continues on with his plan to marry the woman he's engaged to. Flash forward five years and they meet again, becoming lifelong lovers despite his marriage. She gives up her career to be set up in an apartment close to him, a "kept woman," frustrated at times by only getting a slice of his time, but so deeply in love that she stays with him, despite the attentions of a decent, kind guy who's always been crazy about her (George Meeker).

    It's a little tough to see just how much Dunne's character sublimates her own life for her lover, as devoted as a puppy dog, but it was refreshing to see the affair not portrayed moralistically, and the two of them as protagonists we empathize with (well, her more than him, but still). Of course, it's an overly idealistic scenario for such an affair: the two are genuinely in love and not doing it because of some damage in their lives, the wife never finds out, and Dunne's character, while sad at times, is content to be the mistress and doesn't create trouble for him. She's certainly not in it for the money, accepting only what's needed to get by. Later in life, we get moral outrage from his adult son directed at both of them, but when the chips are down, he's incredibly kind to her. In the years of the Production Code his moral outrage would have been that of Joseph Breen, and he would never have extended such sympathy. There is tragedy in the story, but it's the natural tragedy of life, not moral comeuppance for having sinned.

    At the same time, the film is a cautionary tale about the emotional toll of such an arrangement, and the message seems to be directed more at women than men. In an odd bit of drama, a neighbor has an explosion in her kitchen and is set on fire. As Dunne's character tends to her and consoles her with the fact that her husband will surely nurse her back to health, the other woman confides in her that the man she's seen around isn't really her husband - he's married and carrying on an affair with her, just as in the main storyline. The point is to show that in such an emergency, such a relationship is a disaster, and she will lie there, lonely.

    The early voice of wisdom in the film is her father (Paul Weigel), who tells her "I wouldn't fiddle around waiting for something better than Kurt, when it's just like life to hand you something worse. Kurt is a fine, steady boy. He won't ever surprise you maybe, but don't you care. The trouble with most marriages is they've got too many surprises."

    We also have the subplot with her sister Freda (June Clyde), who has come into sexual maturity and thinks it's a pathway to marriage. "Say, mama, Katie Shendler says you can make a man marry you if you..." she says, before getting slapped in the face. Later, it's clear she's had some kind of physical relations with a guy named Hugo and he plans to leave town, making her suicidal. This is the emergency that Dunne's sister sticks around for, to force Hugo into staying, causing her to miss the meeting in the park. We do find out later that Freda did indeed marry Hugo and is now raising a family, clearly the "right path" in the eyes of the film.

    Irene Dunne is marvelous here, as we see her strength in fending off unwanted advances from men early on, her flirtation and joy ("Paris always brings out the beast in you"), and her sadness, like those tears in her eyes when her lover goes off to Europe, played with perfect restraint. Director John M. Stahl is mostly workmanlike in telling the story, but does get in a fantastic zoom out shot when she's standing there at the pavilion while the crowd disperses, and he's not there. Also, look for that funny little bit in the beginning, where before Prohibition, the family, including three kids, are all drinking beer.

    Lastly, another nice quote from the father: "Ever since I can remember, the younger generation has been 'going to the dogs,' yet somehow it always manages to come out on top."
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    Dunne outstanding in well mounted production.

    The first of the thrice filmed Fanny Hurst novel under the tasteful direction of John Stahl features a superb performance from Irene Dunne. From carefree youth to dying day Dunne gives an incredibly restrained yet powerfully emotional effort of a woman who signs her own death warrant to the American ideal.

    Ray Schmidt is one elusive chick to the men chasing her. On to the traveling salesman con she also rejects the well intentioned local boy with promise Kurt Schlender who nevertheless remains persistent. One day at the train depot she's introduced to Walter Saxel (John Boles). The two hit it off and embark on an on off affair until the day they die.

    Dunne endures the highs and lows of the relationship with a low key melancholy, much of it reflected in her eyes and long silences that reaches the audience and speaks volumes. The tragic chemistry between the two is evident in many of their scenes as they knowingly play out the doomed affair that will never attain respectability with a wan despair.

    Stahl along with cameraman Karl Freund provide one fine background after the next with some beautiful set pieces as well some tender two shot close-ups of the star crossed lovers conflicted by their desperate passion for each other and the "proper " thing to do. A top rate tearjerker.
    6bkoganbing

    One crucial component

    Three of the best actresses around, Irene Dunne, Margaret Sullavan, and Susan Hayward all played the lead role of Rae Schmidt in three different versions of Back Street. It's a timeless tale and can be adapted to any time and place in history. The novel by Fannie Hurst was written in 1931 and most of the action takes place in the pre-World War I years and then jumps to the present day of 1932 reflecting the time she's been a Back Street woman.

    Back Street the story is once again an affirmation of the heart having its own reasons. In this first film version Irene Dunne meets John Boles who is an upwardly mobile young man in the banking business. That's it for her she's in love. But Boles is about to get married to Doris Lloyd. Still when Boles goes to New York where he becomes successful he sets Dunne up in an apartment there and she's his kept woman for over 20 years.

    Reading the Wikipedia article on Back Street one crucial component is missing from this adaption. The fact that Boles is Jewish and much under his mother's thumb to marry within the faith. Maude Turner Gordon plays the mother and she's formidable. But Boles is the weakest thing in this adaption. Without the religious component he comes across like a Mama's boy.

    Like it or not Dunne is stuck on him. She even passes up an opportunity to marry boy next door George Meeker who makes it big with those new fangled contraptions, the horseless carriage.

    Back Street both book and film version and take your choice set a standard for tales of romance on the side and sly. This one set the mark for the other two to follow.

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    • Trivia
      This 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 émigré pianist. She hid the marriage from the public, keeping her maiden name and separate residences. It became a scandal after 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.
    • Citas

      Ray Schmidt: I know myself so well: it's all the way or zero with me.

    • Créditos curiosos
      Cincinnati - in the good old days before the Eighteenth Amendment
    • Conexiones
      Featured in The Universal Story (1996)

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    • Fecha de lanzamiento
      • 30 de diciembre de 1932 (Estados Unidos)
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      • Estados Unidos
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      • Universal Studios - 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, California, Estados Unidos(Studio)
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      • 1h 33min(93 min)
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      • Black and White
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