text: The Girl From 10th Avenue (1935): During the height of Depression-era New York, the difference between a Fifth Avenue and a Tenth Avenue street address was a chasm almost too wide to fathom. Yet this division, and a somewhat implausible narrative, produced this ravishing title card, yet another example of Warner Brothers’ early 1930s Art Deco designs. Here, Bette Davis’ elegance is deceptive, as her character is a poor working girl who ends up serendipitously married to a society lawyer, on a bender after receiving the boot from his fiancée. The lawyer’s ex-showgirl housekeeper volunteers to “dress up” Miss Davis enough to hang on to her man. The actress was about to receive her first Oscar, bringing her much-earned respect.