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
As soon as Stuart Chapman (Ted North) starts his new job as a newspaper reporter in Chicago, he is pulled into a murder investigation together with his new colleague Homer Howard (George Montgomery). As they sit down 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 (Ginger Rogers).
More details
| author | Ben Hecht Nunnally Johnson |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Chicago |
| director | William Augustus Wellman |
| editor | James B. Clark |
| events | capital punishment |
| genre | comedy crime |
| keywords | 1929 stock market crash apartment building arrest build fade faint iris adrian kill legal system murder murder case murder investigation new job newspaper reporter police station steal stock market crash ted north |
| musicBy | Alfred Newman |
| producer | Nunnally Johnson |
| publisher | 20th Century Fox |
| theme | crime comedy musical musical comedy silent |