Films about the Great Depression

I'm fond of Purple Rose of Cairo. It's a Woody Allen with the star being his spectacular eye for period detail. It's a film within a film, Tge frame being a film obsessed waitress married to a free loading abuser played by Mia Farrow and Danny Aiello. She drowns her misery at the movies . The film playing that week is the Purple Rose of Cairo an exotic adventure with Art Deco NYC apartments Egyptian tombs, nightclubs and a rich adventurer character who climbs off the screen to meet Farrow. This opens the story to include Hollywood film society, a tour of breadlines and plenty of slices of Depression- era life. Critics have called this film cold but its cleverness is what attracts me, that and the flawless execution.