Cast includes Robert Edeson, Julia Faye, Phyllis Haver, May Robson, and Victor Varconi. With the help of a shrewd lawyer and her husband, an aspiring performer who kills her lover tries to parlay her crime into celebrity in 1920s Chicago.
Director
Urson, Frank
Writer
Coffee, Lenore J.
Producer
DeMille, Cecil B.
Editor
Bauchens, Anne
Production Team
Pathé, Cecil B. DeMille Studio, March of Time, Film Preservation Associates, and Flicker Alley
Genre
Feature Film Drama
Content Notes
Disc 1: Chicago. Disc 2: The Golden Twenties (1950; 64 min.); The Flapper Story (1985; 30 min.) directed by Lauren Lazin; and Chicago: The Real Roxie Hart.
Source
Based on the play Chicago by Maurine Dallas Watkins, which was a fictionalized account of the trials of Belva Gaertner and Beulah Sheriff Annan