Grief Street

Alvin Merle, a womanizing Broadway matinée idol, is found strangled in his dressing room. The door is locked from the inside and there is no possible other way into the room. Merle is having an affair with his leading lady, while his wife, actress Ethel Wynn, appearing in another play in a theater around the corner, is doing the same with Frank Murray, the stage manager on Merle s play. Newspaper reporter Jim Ryan is investigating the case and meets Jean Royce, a young actress who had been fired from the play while in rehearsals. Everybody, including Michael, the old actor now relegated to being just a stage-doorman, has a motive. The explanation for the murder lies within the script of the play. Written by Les Adams Grief Street is a 1931 American English-language Crime Film-Noir movie starring Barbara Kent, John Holland, Dorothy Christy, Crauford Kent, Lillian Rich, James P. Burtis and Fred Parker. Chesterfield Motion Pictures Corporation was the production house involved in the project along with executive producer(s) George R. Batcheller. The movie is directed by Richard Thorpe. Chesterfield Motion Pictures Corp. acquired the distribution rights for the motion picture. Grief Street was released on 1st October 1931 and takes a screen time of 64 minutes. Cinematography was done by M.A. Anderson.
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