The Girl from Chicago (1927 film)

70 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguagesSound (Synchronized)
(English Intertitles)

The Girl from Chicago is a lost^[1] 1927 American synchronized sound criminal romantic drama film directed by Ray Enright and starring Myrna Loy and Conrad Nagel. While the film has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects using the Vitaphone sound-on-disc process. The film was produced and distributed by the Warner Bros. and is based upon a short story by Arthur Somers Roche that appeared in the June 1923 Redbook.^[2]

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

Southern girl Mary Carlton finds out that her brother, Bob Carlton, is going to the electric chair for a crime he says he did not 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, is not 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.

• 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

• List of early sound feature films (1926–1929)

• The Girl from Chicago at IMDb
• Synopsis at AllMovie
• Lobby card
• Still from gettyimages.com