Directed by John M. Stahl • 1932 • United States
Starring Irene Dunne, John Boles, George Meeker
The first of three film adaptations Universal made of Fannie Hurst’s tear-jerking novel chronicles the fate-battered relationship of Ray (Irene Dunne) and Walter (John Boles), two star-crossed lovers seemingly thwarted from being together by circumstances and time. Tracing their relationship across decades—as the married Walter ascends to prominence as a wealthy financier while Ray remains in the background as the perpetual “other woman”—BACK STREET offers a beautifully restrained and deeply affecting vision of self-sacrifice in the name of love.
Directed by John M. Stahl • 1934 • United States
Starring Claudette Colbert, Warren William, Rochelle Hudson
Adapted from the novel by Fannie Hurst, this groundbreaking look at American racial attitudes traces the complex relationship that develops between Bea Pullman (Claudette Colbert), a wido...
Directed by John M. Stahl • 1935 • United States
Starring Irene Dunne, Robert Taylor, Charles Butterworth
In the role that launched his career, Robert Taylor stars as an alcoholic playboy who, after his drunken antics inadvertently cause the death of a physician and leave his widow (Irene Dunne)...
Directed by John M. Stahl • 1939 • United States
Starring Irene Dunne, Charles Boyer, Barbara O’Neil
Romance and heartbreak walk hand in hand when concert pianist Philip Chagal (Charles Boyer) meets Helen Lawrence (Irene Dunne) by chance in a restaurant where she works as a waitress. Unhappily m...
