The Girl from Chicago (1927 film)

For the 1932 film directed by Oscar Micheaux, see The Girl from Chicago.

The Girl from Chicago
Directed by	Ray Enright Frank Shaw (assistant)
Written by	Graham Baker (scenario)
Based on	short story in Redbook (June 1923), "Button, Button", by Arthur Somers Roche
Starring	Myrna Loy Conrad Nagel
Cinematography	Hal Mohr
Production company	Warner Bros.
Distributed by	Warner Bros.
Release dates	November 19, 1927
Running time	70 minutes
Country	US
Language	Silent

The Girl from Chicago is a lost^[1] 1927 silent film criminal romance drama directed by Ray Enright and starring Myrna Loy and Conrad Nagel. It was produced and distributed by the Warner Bros. The film later had a Vitaphone soundtrack of sound effects and music added.^[2]

The film is one of the earliest starring roles for Loy who at this time, 1927, didn't usually star but was a supporting player. Warners took a chance casting her in a principal part.^[3]

Plot

Southern girl Mary Carlton finds out that her brother, Bob Carlton, is going to the electric chair for a crime he says he didn't commit. In order to get her brother exonerated, Mary travels to New York and pretends to be a Chicago gun moll. She wins the love of two gangsters, Handsome Joe and Big Steve Drummond. Joe, it turns out, isn't a gangster at all, but an undercover detective. He attempts to help Mary prove her brother's innocence, and the two of them are caught in a fierce gun battle between the crooks and the cops. They make it through alive (although Drummond gets his due), and Bob is released at the last minute.

Cast

Conrad Nagel as Handsome Joe
Myrna Loy as Mary Carlton
William Russell as Big Steve Drummond
Carroll Nye as Bob Carlton
Paul Panzer as Dopey
Erville Alderson as Colonel Carlton

References

↑ "The Girl From Chicago / Ray Enright [motion picture]:Bibliographic Record Description: Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress/FIAF". lcweb2.loc.gov. Retrieved March 22, 2015.
↑ "The AFI Catalog of Feature Films:The Girl from Chicago". afi.com. Retrieved March 22, 2015.
↑ Myrna Loy: The Only Good Girl in Town by Emily W. Leider Retrieved March 22, 2015.

External links

The Girl from Chicago at the Internet Movie Database
synopsis at AllMovie
lobby card

Films directed by Ray Enright

Tracked by the Police (1927)
Jaws of Steel (1927)
The Girl from Chicago (1927)
Land of the Silver Fox (1928)
The Little Wildcat (1928)
Domestic Troubles (1928)
Skin Deep (1929)
Song of the West (1930)
Golden Dawn (1930)
Dancing Sweeties (1930)
Scarlet Pages (1930)
Play Girl (1932)
The Tenderfoot (1932)
Blondie Johnson (1933)
Tomorrow at Seven (1933)
The Silk Express (1933)
Havana Widows (1933)
I've Got Your Number (1934)
Twenty Million Sweethearts (1934)
The Circus Clown (1934)
Dames (1934)
The St. Louis Kid (1934)
While the Patient Slept (1935)
Traveling Saleslady (1935)
Alibi Ike (1935)
We're in the Money (1935)
Miss Pacific Fleet (1935)
Snowed Under (1935)
Earthworm Tractors (1936)
China Clipper (1936)
Sing Me a Love Song (1937)
Ready, Willing, and Able (1937)
Slim (1937)
The Singing Marine (1937)
Back in Circulation (1937)
Swing Your Lady (1938)
Gold Diggers in Paris (1938)
Hard to Get (1938)
Going Places (1938)
The Angels Wash Their Faces (1939)
On Your Toes (1939)
Brother Rat and a Baby (1940)
Teddy, the Rough Rider (1940)
An Angel from Texas (1940)
River's End (1940)
The Wagons Roll at Night (1941)
Thieves Fall Out (1941)
Bad Men of Missouri (1941)
Law of the Tropics (1941)
Wild Bill Hickok Rides (1942)
The Spoilers (1942)
Men of Texas (1942)
Sin Town (1942)
The Iron Major (1943)
Gung Ho! (1943)
China Sky (1945)
Man Alive (1945)
Trail Street (1947)
Albuquerque (1948)
Coroner Creek (1948)
Return of the Bad Men (1948)
South of St. Louis (1949)
Montana (1950)
Kansas Raiders (1950)
Flaming Feather (1952)
The Man from Cairo (1953)

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