Chicago Phyllis Haver Victor Varconi Virginia Bradford.
Based on a true crime story, the movie is about a wild jazz-loving and boozing wife Roxie Hart who kills her boyfriend in cold blood after he leaves her, and how she finagles her way out of being convicted.
Remade as a Broadway musical and as a film that won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2003!
1927 Crime/Comedy Film
"There are other excellent performances in the picture, and Frank Urson's direction is, for the most part, admirable."--Life Magazine
"It's actually a fairly unique mixture of comedy and drama, which -- aside from specialty items like Charlie Chaplin's The Kid -- was little seen at the time."--Combustible Celluloid
Stars: Phyllis Haver, Victor Varconi, Virginia Bradford
Director: Frank Urson
Produce by: Cecil B DeMille
Cast:
Phyllis Haver as Roxie Hart
Victor Varconi as Amos Hart
Virginia Bradford as Katie
Robert Edeson as Billy Flynn
Eugene Pallette as Rodney Casley
Warner Richmond as Asst. District Attorney
T. Roy Barnes as Reporter
Clarence Burton as Police sergeant
Julia Faye as Velma Kelly
May Robson as Matron Mama Morton
Viola Louie as Two Gun Rosie
Trivia:
This film was based on the true crime stories of Beulah Annan and Belva Gaertner as both of them murdered their lovers around 1924. Beulah, who is the main muse for this film, killed the man she was seeing with the excuse he "tried to make love" to her and tried to blame it on her husband by involving him in it.
The plot was adapted to stage in 1975 with music and lyrics by John Kander and Fred Ebb. It was a critical and commercial success and was made into a musical film in 2002, starring Renée Zellweger as Roxie, Catherine Zeta-Jones as fellow murderess Velma Kelly, Richard Gere as Billy Flynn, Queen Latifah as Mama Morton, and John C. Reilly as Amos.
Also Known as:
Hungary, Csikágó
Finland, Intohimojen syleilyssä
Estonia, Chicago ilusaim naismõrvar
Russian, Чикаго
Japan, 市俄古
Ukraine, Чикаго
Brazil, Sacrifício Inútil
Argentina, Bajo el talón de la justicia
Remade as a Broadway musical and as a film that won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2003!
1927 Crime/Comedy Film
"There are other excellent performances in the picture, and Frank Urson's direction is, for the most part, admirable."--Life Magazine
"It's actually a fairly unique mixture of comedy and drama, which -- aside from specialty items like Charlie Chaplin's The Kid -- was little seen at the time."--Combustible Celluloid
Stars: Phyllis Haver, Victor Varconi, Virginia Bradford
Director: Frank Urson
Produce by: Cecil B DeMille
Cast:
Phyllis Haver as Roxie Hart
Victor Varconi as Amos Hart
Virginia Bradford as Katie
Robert Edeson as Billy Flynn
Eugene Pallette as Rodney Casley
Warner Richmond as Asst. District Attorney
T. Roy Barnes as Reporter
Clarence Burton as Police sergeant
Julia Faye as Velma Kelly
May Robson as Matron Mama Morton
Viola Louie as Two Gun Rosie
Trivia:
This film was based on the true crime stories of Beulah Annan and Belva Gaertner as both of them murdered their lovers around 1924. Beulah, who is the main muse for this film, killed the man she was seeing with the excuse he "tried to make love" to her and tried to blame it on her husband by involving him in it.
The plot was adapted to stage in 1975 with music and lyrics by John Kander and Fred Ebb. It was a critical and commercial success and was made into a musical film in 2002, starring Renée Zellweger as Roxie, Catherine Zeta-Jones as fellow murderess Velma Kelly, Richard Gere as Billy Flynn, Queen Latifah as Mama Morton, and John C. Reilly as Amos.
Also Known as:
Hungary, Csikágó
Finland, Intohimojen syleilyssä
Estonia, Chicago ilusaim naismõrvar
Russian, Чикаго
Japan, 市俄古
Ukraine, Чикаго
Brazil, Sacrifício Inútil
Argentina, Bajo el talón de la justicia
