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- Seventy-five years before it was released as an Oscar-winning musical, Chicago was a sassy silent film created by Cecil B. DeMille’s production company. It boasted a brilliant turn by Phyllis Haver as the heartless Roxie and, just to make things yummier, it was secretly directed by Mr. DeMille himself!
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Chicago is a 1927 American silent crime comedy-drama film produced by Cecil B. DeMille and directed by Frank Urson. The first film adaptation of Maurine Dallas Watkins ' play of the same name, the film stars Phyllis Haver as Roxie Hart, a fame-obsessed housewife who kills her lover in cold blood and, after trying to coerce her husband into ...
- $483,165
- December 27, 1927
- $303,306
- Cecil B. DeMille
Mar 30, 2014 · Seventy-five years before it was released as an Oscar-winning musical, Chicago was a sassy silent film created by Cecil B. DeMille’s production company. It boasted a brilliant turn by Phyllis Haver as the heartless Roxie and, just to make things yummier, it was secretly directed by Mr. DeMille himself!
Before Bob Fosse, There Was This I suspect that Mr. Rob Marshall watched this 1927 silent before making his recent screen adaptation of the smash-hit Broadway musical. The non-musical scenes in his version look an awful lot like this exceptional film.
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- Comedy, Crime, Drama
- Frank Urson
- 1927-12-23
CHICAGO was turned into an Oscar-winning musical in 2002 and Ginger Rogers played the role in a 1944 film (ROXIE HART) but this silent version has been pretty difficult to see up until a few years ago when UCLA restored it.
Jun 27, 2016 · Share. (The unabridged and updated version of a Siren column about the 1927 silent version of Chicago, first published behind a paywall at the now-defunct Nomad Widescreen.) Nothing guarantees immortality for a murderer quite like getting away with it, as Lizzie Borden could have told you.
Mar 25, 2003 · It's a remake of a remake The original movie Chicago was released in 1927 at the end of the silent era. (It wasn't a musical.) Phyllis Haver played Roxie Hart.
Apr 27, 2024 · I saw the silent version of Chicago at Cinecon this past labor day weekend. I was looking forward to this rarely-seen film which was one of the predecessors of the recent Academy Award winner of the same name. While I enjoyed the film, however, for me the script was lacking.
