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In Old Chicago is a 1938 American disaster musical drama film directed by Henry King. The screenplay by Sonya Levien and Lamar Trotti was based on the Niven Busch story, "We the O'Learys". The film is a fictionalized account about the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 and stars Alice Brady as Mrs. O'Leary , the owner of the cow which started the fire ...
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In Old Chicago: Directed by Henry King. With Tyrone Power, Alice Faye, Don Ameche, Alice Brady. The O'Leary brothers--honest Jack and roguish Dion--become powerful figures, and eventually rivals, in Chicago on the eve of its Great Fire.
- Henry King
- 3 min
Produced and previewed in 1937 but released in January 1938, In Old Chicago is a fictionalization of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, in which 3.3 square miles were destroyed in the heart of the city. Legend has it that Mrs. O'Leary's cow started the fire by kicking over a lantern, though an imaginative journalist later admitted that he had ...
- Henry King
- Tyrone Power
In 1871 Chicago, honest lawyer Jack (Don Ameche) and his reckless saloon owner brother Dion (Tyrone Power) are two very different men attracted to the same beautiful singer, Belle (Alice Faye).
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- Tyrone Power
- Henry King
- History, Drama
May 22, 2019 · 717 subscribers. Subscribed. 1.5K. 230K views 4 years ago. SDC FILMS Restoration Project. In 1854, the patriarch Patrick O'Leary of the O'Leary family dies in an accident nearby Chicago while...
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- Kenneth Howard Smith
In Old Chicago. Summaries. The O'Leary brothers--honest Jack and roguish Dion--become powerful figures, and eventually rivals, in Chicago on the eve of its Great Fire. In 1854, Patrick O'Leary, patriarch of the O'Leary family, dies in an accident nearby Chicago while traveling the Midwestern prairie.
179M subscribers. Subscribed. 72. Tyrone Power and Don Ameche star in this acclaimed film about greed, corruption and politics in late 1800s Chicago. While Jack O'Leary (Ameche) is elected mayor,...
