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Back Street

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IMDB ID: tt0033365

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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.

English

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Charles Boyer

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Margaret Sullavan

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Richard Carlson

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Frank McHugh

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Tim Holt

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Frank Jenks

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Esther Dale

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Peggy Stewart

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Samuel S. Hinds

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Nell O'Day

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Robert Stevenson

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Felix Jackson

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Fannie Hurst

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Bruce Manning

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