# Chicago (film)

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Cast and Crew :
| Cast ||
| Role | Actor |
| Roxie Hart | Phyllis Haver |
| Velma Kelly | Julia Faye |
| | Victor Varconi |
| | May Robson |
| | Eugene Pallette |
| | Robert Dudley |
| | Walter Long |
| Billy Flynn | Robert Edeson |
| | Clarence Burton |
| Crew ||
| Distributor | Pathé |
| Director | Frank Urson (d. 1928) |
| Producer | Cecil B. DeMille (d. 1959) |
| Screenwriter | Lenore J. Coffee (d. 1984) |
| Cinematographer | John Peverell Marley (d. 1964) |
| Editor | Anne Bauchens |
| Composer | Cecil Copping (d. 1966) |
| Production designer | Mitchell Leisen |
| Costume designer | Adrian |
| Based on available information, the latest crew member that is relevant to international copyright laws died in 1984, meaning that this film may be in the public domain in countries and jurisdictions with 39 years p.m.a. or less, as well as in the United States. ||
PATHÉ PRESENTS
"CHICAGO"
WITH
PHYLLIS VAVER AND
VICTOR VARCONI
PRODUCED BY De Mille Pictures Corp.
PASSED BY NATIONAL BOARD OF REVIEW COPYRIGHT PATHÉ EXCHANGE, INC., MCMXXVII
SCREEN PLAY BY
LENORE J. COFFEE
FROM THE STAGE PLAY WRITTEN BY
Maurine Watkins
AND PRODUCED BY
SAM H. HARRIS
PHOTOGRAPHY BY
PEVERELL MARLEY
SETTINGS BY
J. M. LEISEN
FILM EDITOR
ANNE BAUCHENS
DIRECTED BY
Frank Urson
Distributed by
Pathé
CAST OF CHARACTERS
This is the drama of a Big City———every Big City———and of a little girl who was all wrong.
Mr. and Mrs. Amos Hart
Rich Man Succumbs Leaving Million in Gold
Prominent Chicago Financier Passes Away Following Long Heart Illness
Roy G. Burns 8240 Longworth Boulevard is dead at the zenith of a most important night and it is [...]
"Gee, I wish you had a little of that gold!"
"This is my gold——every curl worth a million!"
"Cut it out, Daddy——my breakfast is getting cold!"
"Here, Katie——some more coupons for you."
"I got this lovely Ingersoll with the last coupons you gave me."
MEYER & HART CIGARSTOBACCOCIGARETTES
If you want to hold your Sweetie.. Buy her Sweet Dream CIGARETTES
"Hold your sweetie! Say, I'm tryin' to give mine the air!"
"If you had my sweetie you wouldn't want to give her the air."
863-431
WHILE THE INCENSE [...] HELP A JAILOR
"She's just what the doctor ordered"
SAD 'N' BLUE
[...] home. Left note.
Notice to collector Collect delinquent payments from Mrs. Amos Hart or take back Piano. Acme Piano Company.
"Gee, I'd know that bill collector ten blocks off!"
"Anytime I'm a dead one!"
"Did Roxie's great big Daddy miss his 'ittle Baby Face?"
"Shut your eyes, Daddy——I got a surprise for you!"
Mrs. A. Hart
LambertGowns
20 So. State Street
| Lace Negligee | | 57.50 |
| 1 Pair Mnles | | 10.00 |
| 6 " Silk Hose @ | 4.50 | 26.00 |
| 4 Crepe Silk Teddies @ | 9.00 | 36.00 |
| | | 129.50 |
De Beaulieu & Co.
208 East Adams Street
NEGLIGEE AND BOUDOIR APPAREL
Mrs. Amos Hart
| [...] Pr. Silk Hose | @ 5.00 | 60.00 |
| [...] Pr. Garters | @ 6.00 | 12.00 |
| Boudoir Gown | | 145.00 |
| [...]r Trimmed Negligee | | 185.00 |
| | | 402.00 |
Chicago, Ill., September 119
BOZZANIIMPORTER
| 6 yds. | Crepe de Chine | @ 3.95 | 21.60 |
| 5 " | Charmeuse | @ 5.00 | 25.00 |
| 2 " | Georgette | @ 4.50 | 54.00 |
| 4½ " | Crepe Romaine | @ 4.50 | 18.00 |
| 5 " | Chiffon Velvet | @10.50 | 63.00 |
| | | | 181.60 |
Mrs. Amos Hart
In Account With
MACY & BURK
PERFUMES
166 No. Michigan Avenue
| 2 Bottles Toilet Water | 6.50 |
| Face Powder | 7.50 |
| Black Narcissus Perfume | 12.50 |
| Lip Sticks | 4.75 |
| Toilet Soap | 5.00 |
"But you told me I could buy them."
"You women give me a pain! All you want is money!"
"Yeh———well, what else have you got?"
"Get this into your dumb Baby Face if you can——I'm through, see? All washed up——get me?"
"Please——Daddy———"
"Now, perhaps you'll believe me when I say I'm through!"
"You dirty tightwad——you bet your sweet life you're through!"
"Come quick, Daddy——something terrible has happened!"
"...a burglar——tried to hold me up——I shot him!"
"Hold your sweetie! Say, I'm tryin' to give mine the air!"
"Is there anything else you should tell me?"
"Police Station!"
"...and so, as a burglar trying to rob my home———I shot him!"
"A signed confession in ten minutes! Be sure your paper gives me the credit, Jake."
"Please, Mr. District Attorney——can't you see I wouldn't hurt a fly?"
"But your husband says——YOU DID IT!"
"You double-crossed me———you sneak———and you swore you'd stick!"
"You can't believe her! She doesn't know what she's saying! You have my signed confession that I did it!"
"You couldn't trust even the man who loves you."
"Don't let them hang me!——don't let them hang me!———"
"This case is just what I need! Something sensational to make me known!"
"Don't let them hang me!...Help me get away and I'll do anything for you!"
"Hang a woman with a face like that——Say, Justice ain't so blind!"
"Listen, sister——just trust yours truly. I'm the lad who'll play you up as 'Chicago's Most Beautiful Murderess'!"
"Who knows you now? NOBODY! But I'll put you over big. Tomorrow they'll be namin' babies after you. Why, you'll be famous!"
"Don't be so grouchy, they'll think you're mad at me!"
"You be the murdered man, while I pose Roxie as Remorse."
YANKS WIN AMERICAN LEAGUE PENNANT
FIVE CENTS CITY
SPORTS COMPLETE
THE CHICAGOGAZETTE A Newspaper for all the people
ROXIE HART THE "JAZZ SLAYER"
CHICAGO'S MOST BEAUTIFUL MURDERESS HUSBAND TRIES TO TAKE GUILT
Roxie Calm Under Excitement, But Declares She Will Fight for Life. Detectives Have Hot Case.
Fierce Blizzard Staggers the Entire Northwest
LATEST EDITION
COMPLETE NEWS
THE CHICAGOADVOCATE AN EXPONENT OF THE TRUTH
ROXIE RIDDLES ROMEO
"JAZZ SLAYER" JAILED ON MURDER CHARGE
Girl Admits Shooting Rodney Casley in Apartment; Husband Attempts To Take Responsibility For Fatal Affray
Detroit News and Mirror
BLONDE BEAUTY FACES GRAND JURY INDICTMENT
****CHICAGO ADVOCATE
BEAUTY MUST STAND TRIAL FOR FIRST-DEGREE MURDER
BEAUTIFUL JAZZ SLAYER FACES MURDER CHARGE
Girl Wife Accused of Deliberate Killing of Rodney Casley; Prosecution Promises Quick Trial For Defendant
By Jason Humphries
Announcing that he will demand the extreme penalty—death on the gallows—for Roxie Hart, the "Jazz Slayer," District Attorney Harrison is making preparations to [...]
ROXIE HART
"Seventeen columns and twenty-three pictures!"
"That's nothing. I had twenty-two columns and thirty pictures!"
"Her husband——er——passed on sort of unexpected. She's a real lady——uses Black Narcissus perfume, and never makes her bed."
"For heaven's sake shut up so a lady can read!"
"Charleston Lou——knifed her sweetie in a dance hall."
STANDARD ETIQUETTE
Anna Steese Richardson
STANDARD ETIQUETTE
WHEN IS IT CORRECT TO USE A KNIFE?
The knife is used for the sole purpose of cutting food and is always held in the right hand. It is unnecessary to add that no one with any pretensions to breeding is ever guilty of conveying food to the mouth with the knife.
While the right hand is occupied with the knife, the fork is held in the left hand. When the food does not require cutting, and is separated into small portions with the fork, the fork is held in the right hand. In America, it is cus- [...]
"That's just Teresa——she killed her baby because her man wouldn't give her a weddin' ring."
"What a nice social club this is—stranglers—knifer-throwers and sharpshooters!"
"You ought to feel right at home!"
"Peroxide!"
"False hair——false hair!"
"This is a decent jail——you can't act here the way you do at home!"
"Mrs. Hart's husband to see her."
"I could be hung for what I think of this jail!"
"You probably will be!"
"Amos, my husband!"
"Do you realize that you just killed a man? Aren't you even sorry?"
"You're just sore 'cause I'm getting all the publicity!"
"I've got Flynn, the great criminal lawyer——waiting to see you!"
"He can't see me like this! I gotta make a hit with that baby!"
"Now, before we begin, there is one little detail——"
"——the matter of my retainer's fee. Five thousand dollars cash——in advance."
"Yes——only five thousand dollars. Very little for the life of such a young and beautiful woman!"
"But, Mr. Flynn——I haven't got it!"
"Are you going to let me rot in jail for a few measly dollars!"
"Please, Mr. Flynn——shouldn't blondes be cheaper?"
"Remember, only yesterday you said every curl was worth a million!"
"Think of your little Roxie with an ugly rope around her neck."
"I'll get it——I'll get the money!"
"Cut the bull! I'm not your husband——I'm your lawyer!"
PREMIER LIFE INSURANCE Policy Advance (Loan) Agreement
[...] 1908 and later paid-up policies
$1000.00
⟨I, the⟩ undersigned, in consideration of the advance by the PREMIER LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, of one thousand Dollars, am the sole security ⟨Policy⟩ No. 36411-A issued by said Company on the life of Amos Hart, hereby [...] as follows:
[...] may be paid to Amos Hart [...] this 14 [...] 1927.
Amos Hart Form 2143A
SAVINGS
MONEY -TO- LOAN
WILLIAM FLYNN
"Twenty-five hundred dollars——that's all I could raise. Couldn't I pay the rest on installments?"
"Installments? You must think you're buying a Ford!"
"I don't care how you get the rest of this money—but if you don't get it by tomorrow, you'll see your wife at the end of a rope!"
"You got a great system, Flynn. You don't break the law but you certainly put a crimp in it!"
"That's a lotta jack—better put it in a safe!"
"In a safe! When most of my clients are safe-crackers!"
"That's the watch he dropped!"
"Did you get the money?"
"And I need some spending money, too!"
"What time is it?"
"Twenty-one minutes to eleven."
"He'd do anything for you, wouldn't he? Lie, cheat or steal!"
"Sure——why wouldn't he?"
President Sees Greater Prosperity For Country
LATEST EDITION
COMPLETE NEWS
THE CHICAGOADVOCATE AN EXPONENT OF THE TRUTH
ROXIE HART FACES JURY IN MURDER TRIAL TODAY
"JAZZ SLAYER" TO TELL OWN STORY OF SHOOTING
Beauty Accused of Murder Takes Part in Bitter Struggle For Acquittal on Charges in Sensational Case
"A millionaire wants to adopt me!"
"You can't tell a jury you shot to save your honor——with a skirt up to your hips!"
"Now——a last rehearsal. And when I talk about your virtue, look as if you knew what virtue meant!"
"Look into that shrinking girl's eyes———"
"Gentlemen of the Jury—this brave——"
"Look brave!"
"This sweet———"
"This gentle———"
"This noble little woman!"
"Remember——if the District Attorney calls you names———"
"I'll crown him!"
"No, you won't——you'll droop——that's what you'll do——DROOP!"
"It's me they want to see——not you——hopping around like a little fat monkey!"
Roxy Hart enters court She wears a pink dress
"Do you consider this proper attire for a married woman receiving a man visitor?"
"I consider it as proof that his call was unexpected and unwelcome!"
"Why did you keep a loaded gun in your home?"
"That my wife might never be left unprotected!"
"Why did you think your wife might need such protection?"
"Because I was afraid she might appear as lovely and desirable to other men as she does to me."
He's a cinch
He's a cinch
Droop, you idiot, droop!
"You are excused, Mr. Hart!"
"Your Honor—I'd like to call Roxie Hart!"
"Do you swear?"
"Now, Roxie, tell the jury in your own way the tragic happenings of that fatal morning."
"I begged Mr. Casely to go away, but he forced his way in——"
"I told him no good would come of it———that I loved my husband———"
"——then I saw his face coming towards me———and that dreadful look in his eyes———"
"And then we both grabbed for the gun!"
"And I shot——to save my honor!"
LATEST EDITION
COMPLETE NEWS
THE CHICAGOADVOCATE AN EXPONENT OF THE TRUTH
ASST. DIST. ATTY. FLAYS ROXIE HART PROSECUTION DEMANDS DEATH PENALTY
ROXIE HART IS TARGET FOR SCATHING ATTACK BY ASST. DIST. ATTORNEY
"Those misty eyes were not too dimmed by tears to accurately aim that fatal shot!"
"Forget the sob stuff, gentlemen. This woman killed a man! The hangman's noose knows no sex——nor should you!"
"They're going to hang me!"
"I will not stoop to answer the District Attorney's insinuations——not to men of your high intelligence!"
"Look into that shrinking girl's eyes!"
"WHAT do you see there?"
"Gentlemen of the Jury. We have before us, accused of the vile crime of murder, this brave——"
"This sweet———"
"This gentle———"
"This NOBLE little woman!"
"Do you believe a woman should hold the life of her attacker higher than her VIRTUE?"
"Hark! The Heavenly sound of bells."
"Those bells, gentlemen, are the voice of your Conscience, saying———'He who is without sin among you————'!"
"Roxie's eyes were not too dimmed by tears to shoot! NO! They were lighted by the pure glow of her innocent soul!"
"Gentlemen——if you convict that delicate girl——it will be like taking these fragile flowers———"
"———and crushing them into bruised and broken blossoms!"
"We rest, Your Honor."
"You do Mr. Hart's housework and you'd better tell us where he hid that money!"
$5,000
TENTH NATIONAL BANK
THE CHICAGOGAZETTE A Newspaper for all the people
ROXIE HART ACQUITTED JURY OUT FOUR HOURS
FAMOUS "JAZZ SLAYER" FREED IN SENSATIONAL MURDER CHARGE
"I'll learn yuh to squeal on my sweetie!"
"Two Gun Rosie! Ain't God good to the papers!"
"Listen, sister, you're yesterday's news and that's deader than last year's hat!"
"We got an idea you helped yourself to a wad of money outta Flynn's safe."
"Come through now——where is it?"
"Gee, this is a swell home-coming for me——after all I've suffered!"
"The thief dropped this Ingersoll. If it isn't yours—show us the one you bought at Epstein's pawn shop!"
"I'm sorry to interrupt——I just wanted to return the watch I borrowed from Mr. Hart."
"I've stuck through this horrible mess, letting you think I was a blind fool———"
"I've lied for you, cheated for you, stolen for you——and now I'm through!"
"Daddy——don't you love me any more?"
"Yes, I love you from every golden curl of your head down to the soles of your little feet———"
"But I'd see my soul burn in hellfire before I'd touch you again!"
"I know why you want to shake me——so you can spend that money on some other woman!"
"If that was clean money I'd return it, but it's blood money——gotten by cheating the gallows of criminals."
"My, but you've made a mess of things, Mr. Hart———"
"———let me straighten them up for you."
CECIL B. DE MILLE PICTURES
This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1929.
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* The principal director
* The screenwriter, and/or other writers of dialogue
* The composer/lyricist (if the film is accompanied by sound)
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