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The Girl from Chicago

1932 · 71 min · US

Directed by Oscar Micheaux

Micheaux, 1932: a Secret Service man (Carl Mahon) is sent to a small town to break up a numbers racket and falls for the girl the racket owns. Sound, two-strip cheap, a nightclub that is also a church. The Girl from Chicago is a crime picture on the race-film circuit. Micheaux using pulps the way he used novels, as a structure he can fill with the people Hollywood would not cast.

Crime · Music · Drama

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1932 · Source: Reelblack One

Public domain presentation

Public Domain Source

Reelblack One

In Pioneers: Oscar Micheaux

Cast & Crew

Oscar Micheaux · DirectorCarl Mahon · Alonzo WhiteStarr Calloway · Norma Shepard (as Star Calloway)

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Cast

Principal players
Carl Mahon

Carl Mahon

Alonzo White

Starr Calloway

Starr Calloway

Norma Shepard (as Star Calloway)

Alice B. Russell

Alice B. Russell

Miss Warren

Eunice Brooks

Eunice Brooks

Mary Austin

Minto Cato

Minto Cato

Minnie, Mary's sister

John Everett

John Everett

Jeff Ballinger

Frank H. Wilson

Frank H. Wilson

Wade Washington

Cherokee Thornton

Cherokee Thornton

A "Snitch"

Grace Smith

Grace Smith

Liza Hatfield

Edwin Cary

Edwin Cary

Conrad, the numbers man

Juano Hernández

Juano Hernández

Gomez

Crew

Oscar Micheaux

writer

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