Roxie Hart
Roxie Hart (also known as Chicago or Chicago Gal) is a 1942 American comedy film directed by William A. Wellman, and starring Ginger Rogers, Adolphe Menjou and George Montgomery. A film adaptation of a 1926 play Chicago by Maurine Dallas Watkins, a journalist who found inspiration in two real-life Chicago trials (Beulah Annan and Belva Gaertner) she had covered for the press. The play had been adapted once prior, in a 1927 silent film. In 1975, a hit stage musical premiered, and was once more adapted as the Oscar-winning 2002 musical film.
Plot
Stuart Chapman starts a new job as a newspaper reporter in Chicago, and is pulled into a murder investigation together with his new colleague, veteran reporter Homer Howard. As they sit in a bar having a drink after a long day, Homer starts telling about a case he reported on in 1927 - a murder case involving the young dancer Roxie Hart.
More details
| author | Ben Hecht Nunnally Johnson |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Chicago |
| director | William A. Wellman |
| editor | James B. Clark |
| events | capital punishment |
| genre | comedy crime |
| keywords | 1929 stock market crash apartment building arrest build fade faint kill legal system murder murder case murder investigation new job newspaper reporter police reporter steal stock market crash |
| musicBy | Alfred Newman |
| producer | Nunnally Johnson |
| publisher | 20th Century Fox |
| theme | crime comedy musical musical comedy silent |