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The Girl from Chicago
The Girl from Chicago
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Directed by	Ray Enright; Frank Shaw (assistant)
Written by	Graham Baker (scenario)
Based on	"Button, Button"; by Arthur Somers Roche
Starring	Myrna Loy; Conrad Nagel
Cinematography	Hal Mohr
Production; company	Warner Bros.
Distributed by	Warner Bros.
Release date	October 19, 1927;
Running time	70 minutes
Country	United States
Languages	Sound (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]

Plot

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.