The Girl from Chicago is a lost[1] 1927 American synchronized sound criminal romantic drama film directed by Ray Enright and starring Myrna Loy and Conrad Nagel. While the film has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects using the Vitaphone sound-on-disc process. The film was produced and distributed by the Warner Bros. and is based upon a short story by Arthur Somers Roche that appeared in the June 1923 Redbook.[2]
| The Girl from Chicago | |
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 Lobby card | |
| Directed by | Ray Enright Frank Shaw (assistant) |
| Written by | Graham Baker (scenario) |
| Based on | "Button, Button" by Arthur Somers Roche |
| Starring | Myrna Loy Conrad Nagel |
| Cinematography | Hal Mohr |
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| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
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Running time | 70 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Languages | Sound (Synchronized) (English Intertitles) |
The film is one of the earliest starring roles for Loy who at this time, 1927, did not usually star but was a supporting player. Warner Bros. took a chance casting her in a principal part.[3]
Plot
editSouthern girl Mary Carlton finds out that her brother, Bob Carlton, is going to the electric chair for a crime he says he did not commit. In order to get her brother exonerated, Mary travels to New York and pretends to be a Chicago gun moll. She wins the love of two gangsters, Handsome Joe and Big Steve Drummond. Joe, it turns out, is not a gangster at all, but an undercover detective. He attempts to help Mary prove her brother's innocence, and the two of them are caught in a fierce gun battle between the crooks and the cops. They make it through alive (although Drummond gets his due), and Bob is released at the last minute.
Cast
edit- Conrad Nagel as Handsome Joe
- Myrna Loy as Mary Carlton
- William Russell as Big Steve Drummond
- Carroll Nye as Bob Carlton
- Paul Panzer as Dopey
- Erville Alderson as Colonel Carlton
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "The Girl From Chicago / Ray Enright [motion picture]:Bibliographic Record Description: Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress/FIAF". lcweb2.loc.gov. Retrieved March 22, 2015.
- ^ "The AFI Catalog of Feature Films:The Girl from Chicago". afi.com. Retrieved March 22, 2015.
- ^ Myrna Loy: The Only Good Girl in Town by Emily W. Leider Retrieved March 22, 2015.
External links
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- The Girl from Chicago at IMDb
- Synopsis at AllMovie
- Lobby card
- Still from gettyimages.com
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