Roxie Hart (film)

Chicago: The Vaudeville Musical (2013)

Actors: Rennie Cowan (editor), Rennie Cowan (director), Bob Fosse (writer), John Kander (composer), Zaccharin Thibodeau (actor), Zaccharin Thibodeau (producer), Zaccharin Thibodeau (director), Samantha Raether (actress), Jennifer Emett (actress), Samantha Raether (miscellaneous crew), Giordan Peacock (actor), Mario Maala (miscellaneous crew), Mikaela Kennerly (actor), Giordan Peacock (miscellaneous crew), Warren Hurd (miscellaneous crew),

Genres: Musical,

50 y más (2005)

Actors: Juan Diego Botto (actor), George W. Bush (actor), David Bisbal (actor), Miguel Bosé (actor), Antonio Banderas (actor), Javier Bardem (actor), Luis Barbero (actor), Javier Bardem (actor), Emilio Aragón (actor), Agustín Almodóvar (actor), Pedro Almodóvar (actor), Luis Eduardo Aute (actor), Imanol Arias (actor), Manuel Alexandre (actor), David Bustamante (actor),

Genres: ,

From Stage to Screen: The History of Chicago (2005)

Actors: Catherine Zeta-Jones (actress), Queen Latifah (actress), Ann Reinking (actress), Chita Rivera (actress), Renée Zellweger (actress), Bill Condon (actor), Richard Gere (actor), Neil Meron (actor), Jerry Orbach (actor), John C. Reilly (actor), Craig Zadan (actor), Rob Marshall (actor), John Kander (actor), Fred Ebb (actor), Martin Richards (actor),

Genres: Documentary, Short,

Chicago (2002)

Actors: Mya (actress), Lucy Liu (actress), Jayne Eastwood (actress), Christine Baranski (actress), John C. Reilly (actor), Queen Latifah (actress), Roman Podhora (actor), Richard Gere (actor), Taye Diggs (actor), Dominic West (actor), Sean McCann (actor), Paul Becker (actor), Colm Feore (actor), Renée Zellweger (actress), Chita Rivera (actress),

Plot: Murderesses Velma Kelly (a chanteuse and tease who killed her husband and sister after finding them in bed together) and Roxie Hart (who killed her boyfriend when she discovered he wasn't going to make her a star) find themselves on death row together and fight for the fame that will keep them from the gallows in 1920s Chicago.

Keywords: 1920s, ambition, audition, backstage, bad-girl, based-on-film, based-on-play, based-on-stage-musical, based-on-stage-musical-based-on-film, based-on-true-story
Genres: Comedy, Crime, Musical,
Taglines: With the right song and dance, you can get away with murder. In a city where everyone loves a legend, there's only room for one. It's Just A Noisy Hall Where There's A Nightly Brawl...and All That Jazz The one movie that has it all. It began with a hit... If You Can't Be Famous, Be Infamous.

Quotes:

Roxie: Don't you wanna take my picture?

Billy Flynn: Would you please tell the audience... err... the jury what happened?

Roxie: It'll never work.::Velma Kelly: Why not?::Roxie: Because I hate you.::Velma Kelly: There's only one business where that's no problem at all.

Roxie: You want some advice, well here's a piece of advice from me to you, lay off the caramels.::[She winks]

Billy Flynn: I don't mean to toot my own horn, but if Jesus Christ lived in Chicago today, and he had come to me and he had five thousand dollars, let's just say things would have turned out differently.

Roxie: They LOVE me.::Billy Flynn: They'd love you a lot more if you were hanged. You know why? Because it would sell more papers!

Velma Kelly: She stole my garter!

Roxie: Jesus, Mary, and Joseph.::Matron Mama Morton: You're talking to the wrong people.

Roxie: You're, THE Velma Kelly. I was there the night you got arrested.::Velma Kelly: Yeah? You and half of Chicago.

Velma Kelly: [about Roxie] First she steals my publicity. Then she steals my lawyer, my trial date. And now she steals my goddamn garter.

Roxie Hart (1942)

Actors: Sam Ash (actor), Arthur Aylesworth (actor), Bobby Barber (actor), Leon Belasco (actor), Stanley Blystone (actor), Ralph Brooks (actor), Charles D. Brown (actor), Nigel Bruce (actor), Harry Carter (actor), George Chandler (actor), Edward Clark (actor), James Conaty (actor), Jeff Corey (actor), Alec Craig (actor), Morris Ankrum (actor),

Plot: To try and kick-start her show-business career, our heroine admits to a Chicago murder. But although Cook County don't seem to let dames swing, and even with top slippery lawyer Billy Flynn, it's all something of a gamble.

Keywords: actress, based-on-play, catfight, chicago-illinois, con, courtroom, coward, faked-pregnancy, farce, innocence
Genres: Comedy, Romance,
Taglines: A girl who could do no wrong -- but brother, how she tried! The low-down story of a high-class gal! The gal who became a national pastime!

Quotes:

Babe: Well hush my big black mouth!

Chicago (1927)

Actors: Sidney Bracey (actor), Robert Brower (actor), Clarence Burton (actor), Sidney D'Albrook (actor), Robert Dudley (actor), Robert Edeson (actor), Jim Farley (actor), Chuck Hamilton (actor), George Kuwa (actor), Otto Lederer (actor), Walter Long (actor), Eugene Pallette (actor), Edward Peil Sr. (actor), Warner Richmond (actor), T. Roy Barnes (actor),

Plot: Based on a true crime story, the movie is about a wild jazz-loving and boozing wife Roxie Hart who kills her boyfriend in cold blood after he leaves her, and how she finagles her way out being convicted. Remade once as a movie, and as a Broadway musical.

Keywords: based-on-play, based-on-true-story, bill-collector, breakup, burglary, butler, catfight, chicago-illinois, coal-cellar, cuckold
Genres: Comedy, Crime, Drama,
Taglines: DRAMATIC STORY OF A JAZZ CRAZED WIFE (original print ad - all caps) She betrayed her husband and slew her "angel," then laughed at the law--- She was a shallow vagabond, fascinating, yet venomous as a serpent, whose bite meant death. The greatest picture of the decade.