Street of Forgotten Women is a 1927 American silent exploitation film[1] directed by Norton S. Parker about a young woman who becomes a prostitute.
The film is supposedly the true story of Grace Fleming, a debutante who ignores the advice of her father and is encouraged by a theater manager to risk all her money on a stage production that fails.
While the plot reflects a public sentiment in holding that the theater is "a haven for scarlet women and immoral men,"[2] it was an improvement over the white slavery films of prior years in allowing a fallen, violated woman to be rescued at its conclusion.
[4] In 1928 the owner and an employee at the Bijou Theater in Denver, Colorado, were fined a total of $200 on a charge of "exhibiting a picture detrimental to public morals" when children were discovered to have been admitted, where advertisements had stated that the film would be shown to segregated audiences with minors banned.
[5] Prints of Street of Forgotten Women are in the collections of the Library of Congress, UCLA Film and Television Archive, and Cineteca Del Friuli (Germona).