''Vanity Street'' is a 1932 American

Pre-Code Pre-Code Hollywood was an era in the Cinema of the United States, American film industry that occurred between the widespread adoption of sound in film in the late 1920s and the enforcement of the Motion Picture Production Code censorship gui ...

crime In ordinary language, a crime is an unlawful act punishable by a State (polity), state or other authority. The term ''crime'' does not, in modern criminal law, have any simple and universally accepted definition,Farmer, Lindsay: "Crime, definiti ...

drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. The drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular ...

directed by

Nick Grinde Nick Grinde (January 12, 1893 – June 19, 1979) was an American film director and screenwriter. He directed 57 films between 1928 and 1945. Biography Born Harry A. Grinde in Madison, Wisconsin but nicknamed "Nick", Grinde graduated from th ...

and starring

Charles Bickford Charles Ambrose Bickford (January 1, 1891 – November 9, 1967) was an American actor known for supporting roles. He was nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for '' The Song of Bernadette'' (1943), '' The Fa ...

Helen Chandler Helen Chandler (February 1, 1906 – April 30, 1965) was an American film and theatre actress, best known for playing Mina Seward in the 1931 horror film ''Dracula''. Career Chandler attended the Professional Children's School in New Yor ...

and

Mayo Methot Mayo Jane Methot (March 3, 1904 – June 9, 1951) was an American film and stage actress. She appeared in over 30 films, as well as in various Broadway theatre, Broadway productions, and attracted significant media attention for her tempestuous ...

.Scott p.42 It was produced and distributed by

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Plot

A New York policeman assists a woman when she's down-on-her-luck, helping her get a job at the

Follies ''Follies'' is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by James Goldman. The plot centers on a crumbling Broadway theater, now scheduled for demolition, previously home to a musical revue (based on the ''Ziegfeld Follies ...

. She falling in love with him but he for some reason pushes her away, and right into the arms of a no-good thief. When he finds himself arresting her for a murder, he knows she did not commit it, so he sets out to clear her by finding the real killer.

Cast

References

Bibliography

* Ian Scott. ''In Capra's Shadow: The Life and Career of Screenwriter Robert Riskin''. University Press of Kentucky, 2015.

External links

* 1932 films American crime drama films American black-and-white films 1932 crime drama films 1930s English-language films Films directed by Nick Grinde Columbia Pictures films Films set in New York City 1930s American films English-language crime drama films {{drama-film-stub