Street of Memories
Cast & Crew
Shepard Traube
Lynne Roberts
Guy Kibbee
John Mcguire
Ed Gargan
Hobart Cavanaugh
Film Details
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Synopsis
As he strolls along skid row, transient Joe Mason wanders into a cafe looking for food and work. The manager, Mike Sullivan, insults him but agrees to give him a meal for cleaning up. When Mike makes a pass at waitress Catherine "Kitty" Foster, Joe comes to her defense but ends up on the street without his dinner. Kitty invites Joe to the engagement party of some friends, where Joe pretends to be an engineer just back from the fields. Joe and Kitty become attached, with Joe thinking things will be better for him in this town. That night, Joe is arrested for vagrancy and ordered to serve six months in jail, get a job, or leave town. Kitty convinces Joe to stay, sending him to her father's barber shop to clean up. Insulted by her father, Joe instead goes to a barber school, where he compliments the teacher into a complete shave and haircut. Joe's only job offer is selling oranges, but he needs money for gas and oil. Wandering the streets, Joe runs into fellow transient Harry Brent, who goes into a partnership with him. At dinner with Kitty's family, Joe is constantly berated by her father, who feels men like Joe are a burden on society and should go back to where they come from. After dinner, Joe tells Kitty that he is an amnesia victim who has no recollection of who he was six months earlier, before Harry found him in a railroad yard. Walking along skid row, the two proclaim their love for each other, selecting an engagement ring in a pawn shop window. The next day, Joe and Harry are arrested for selling oranges illegally, but Harry takes all the blame himself. Kitty offers to support Joe by working in the "Honeymoon Dance Palace," but he refuses. Finding her working there, Joe causes a riot and cracks open his head resisting arrest. In the hospital, Joe regains his former identity of Richard Havens, Jr., the son of a wealthy manufacturer in Chicago. Richard has no recollection of his life as Joe. His father and lawyer try to buy both Kitty and Harry off, but Richard wants to know about his missing life. Kitty, upset that she has lost her love, tells Richard to leave her alone. As he and his father walk along skid row, his father repeats something Kitty's father had said to him. Richard's life as Joe comes completely back to him and he convinces his father of his love for Kitty, pawning his father's watch to buy her the engagement ring. Richard returns to the Foster home, calling out to Kitty: "It's Joe. I've bought the ring." She runs out the door and they kiss.
Director
Shepard Traube
Cast
Lynne Roberts
Guy Kibbee
John Mcguire
Ed Gargan
Hobart Cavanaugh
Jerome Cowan
Charles Waldron
Sterling Holloway
Scotty Beckett
Adele Horner
Pierre Watkin
Bill Wilkes
Duke Green
Abe Dinovitch
Clarence Hummel Wilson
Ralph Dunn
Wade Boteler
Harry Tyler
Tyler Brooke
Clem Wilenchick
Gladys Blake
Sarah Padden
Ernie Alexander
Carl Stockdale
Frank Sully
Robert Homans
Dick Rich
Dewey Robinson
Edwin Stanley
James Flavin
Betty Danko
Helen Thurston
Henry Howard
John Ellis
Murray Alper
Robert Conway
Ted North
Addison Richards
Patricia Knox
Jill Dennett
Max Wagner
Jean Houghton
Ernie Adams
Lillian Porter
Crew
Spencer Bennett
Charles [g.] Clarke
Richard Day
Nick Demaggio
George Dudley
Eugene Grossman
Herschel
Lucien Hubbard
Robert Lees
Harry M. Leonard
Thomas Little
Emil Newman
Frederic I. Rinaldo
Lee Vallee
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Notes
A Hollywood Reporter production chart indicates that Paul Hurst and Freddie Walburn were cast in this film, though their participation in the final production has not been confirmed. Variety reports that this was novelist Shepard Traube's first directorial effort and Lucien Hubbard's first assignment as an associate producer at Fox.
