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Chicago is a american film of genre Drama released in USA on 23 december 1927 with Phyllis Haver
Chicago (1927)
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Add to a movie listChicago is a 1927 comedy-drama silent film produced by Cecil B. DeMille and directed by Frank Urson.
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The plot of the film is drawn from the play Chicago by Maurine Dallas Watkins which was in turn based on the true story of Beulah Annan, fictionalized as Roxie Hart (Phyllis Haver), and her spectacular murder of her boyfriend.Actors
Phyllis Haver
(Roxie Hart)
Julia Faye
(Velma)
Victor Varconi
(Amos Hart)
May Robson
(Mrs. Morton - Matron)
Eugene Pallette
(Rodney Casley)
Chicago (play/musical)
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