Street Angel (1928) [Silent movie]

A woman resorts to desperate measures to try and help her ailing mother leading to her arrest. After escaping she runs off with a traveling carnival where she meets and falls in love with one of the workers, but her past is always a step behind her.
(Actress Janet Gaynor received the FIRST Academy Award for Best Actress in 1929 for her work in this and two other films (7h Heaven & Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans from 1927)
This film is new to public domain as of January 1st, 2024.)

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Janet Gaynor was Fox's most reliable female star in the 20's and 30's; "Sunrise" is an absolute classic, as were "7th Heaven" and this one. She easily made the transition from silent to sound and is probably better known as the star of the first "A Star is Born" for Selznick International in 1937.