Roxie Hart (1942)
February 20, 1942Release Date
Roxie Hart (1942)
February 20, 1942Release Date
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Cast & Crew.
Ginger Rogers
Roxie Hart
Adolphe Menjou
Billy Flynn
George Montgomery
Homer Howard
Lynne Overman
Jake Callahan
Nigel Bruce
E. Clay Benham
Phil Silvers
Babe
Sara Allgood
Mrs. Morton
William Frawley
O'Malley
Spring Byington
Mary Sunshine
Ted North
Stuart Chapman
Helene Reynolds
Velma Wall
George Chandler
Amos Hart
Charles D. Brown
Charles E. Murdock
Morris Ankrum
Martin S. Harrison
George Lessey
Judge
Iris Adrian
Gertie
Milton Parsons
Announcer
Hugh Downs
Inexperienced Reporter (uncredited)
Alec Craig
Bar Client #1 (uncredited)
Frank Orth
Bar Client #2 (uncredited)
Frank Darien
Michael Finnegan (uncredited)
Jeff Corey
Orderly (uncredited)
Arthur Aylesworth
Mr. Wadsworth (uncredited)
Margaret Seddon
Mrs. Wadsworth (uncredited)
Leon Belasco
The Ritz Waiter (uncredited)
Bobby Barber
Bald Juror (uncredited)
William A. Wellman
Director
Hermes Pan
Choreographer
James B. Clark
Editor
Roger Heman Sr.
Sound
Wiard B. Ihnen
Art Direction
Richard Day
Art Direction
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Release DateFebruary 20, 1942
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 12m
Content RatingNR
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Roxie Hart (also known as Chicago or Chicago Gal) is a 1942 American comedy film directed by William A. Wellman, and starring Ginger Rogers, Adolphe Menjou and George Montgomery. A film adaptation of a 1926 play Chicago by Maurine Dallas Watkins, a journalist who found inspiration in two real-life Chicago trials (Beulah Annan and Belva Gaertner) she had covered for the press. The play had been adapted once prior, in a 1927 silent film. In 1975, a hit stage musical premiered, and was once more adapted as the Oscar-winning 2002 musical film.
The screenplay by Nunnally Johnson focuses on a Chicago showgirl who confesses to a murder in hopes the publicity will help her faltering show business career. In the original play, and its other adaptations, Roxie was guilty but was acquitted. However, in order to conform to the Motion Picture Production Code, which regulated moral guidelines for Hollywood films at the time, this adaptation portrays Roxie as innocent but misguided in her attempt to achieve fame.