Roxie Hart (film)

Roxie Hart is a 1942 American comedy film directed by William A. Wellman and starring Ginger Rogers, Adolphe Menjou, George Montgomery, Nigel Bruce, Phil Silvers, William Frawley and Spring Byington. It is also known as Chicago or Chicago Gal. The film is an adaptation of the 1926 play Chicago by Maurine Dallas Watkins, a journalist who had found her inspiration in two reallife Chicago trials she had covered for the press. The play had already been adapted once before, as the 1927 silent movie Chicago, and it would later be adapted as the 1975 musical Chicago, which in turn was adapted as the 2002 film Chicago.

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.Back in 1927, a theatre booking agent, Fred Casely, was murdered, and his body was found in Roxies apartment. Roxies husband Amos George Chandler is immediately questioned by the police, but Roxie is persuaded to let herself get arrested for the murder, since a woman hardly ever gets convicted of murder in Chicago. Besides, the fame she would earn for taking the blame could definitely improve her fading career. That is how reporter Jake Callahan Lynne Overman and Caselys partner E. Clay Benham Nigel Bruce reasons with Roxie to convince her of what to do. ........

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