---
title: 'Roxie Hart (1942)'
type: 'film'
director: 'William A. Wellman'
released: '1942-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 75
genres:
  - 'Comedy'
  - 'Music'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/roxie-hart-1942'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0035272/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Roxie Hart (1942)

1942 · 75 min · Comedy, Music · United States


## Synopsis

Roxie Hart is a 1942 American comedy film directed by William A. Wellman, and starring Ginger Rogers, Adolphe Menjou and George Montgomery. This film adapts the 1926 play Chicago by Maurine Dallas Watkins, a journalist who found inspiration in two real-life Chicago trials she had covered for the press. The play had been adapted once prior, in a 1927 silent film, and was adapted again in 1975 as a hit stage musical, which itself was adapted as the Oscar-winning 2002 musical film.

## Credits

- **Director:** [William A. Wellman](https://cinepixo.com/people/william-a-wellman)
- **Screenplay:** [Ben Hecht](https://cinepixo.com/people/ben-hecht), [Nunnally Johnson](https://cinepixo.com/people/nunnally-johnson)
- **Producer:** [Nunnally Johnson](https://cinepixo.com/people/nunnally-johnson)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Alfred Newman](https://cinepixo.com/people/alfred-newman)
- **Director of Photography:** [Leon Shamroy](https://cinepixo.com/people/leon-shamroy)
- **Editor:** [James B. Clark](https://cinepixo.com/people/james-b-clark)

## Cast

- [Phil Silvers](https://cinepixo.com/people/phil-silvers)
- [Sara Allgood](https://cinepixo.com/people/sara-allgood)
- [George Chandler](https://cinepixo.com/people/george-chandler)
- [Spring Byington](https://cinepixo.com/people/spring-byington)
- [Adolphe Menjou](https://cinepixo.com/people/adolphe-menjou) as Billy Flynn
- [Margaret Seddon](https://cinepixo.com/people/margaret-seddon)
- [George Montgomery](https://cinepixo.com/people/george-montgomery)
- [Nigel Bruce](https://cinepixo.com/people/nigel-bruce)
- [Ginger Rogers](https://cinepixo.com/people/ginger-rogers) as Roxie Hart
- [Mary Treen](https://cinepixo.com/people/mary-treen)
- [Helene Whitney](https://cinepixo.com/people/helene-whitney) as Velma Kelly
- [Lynne Overman](https://cinepixo.com/people/lynne-overman)
- [William Frawley](https://cinepixo.com/people/william-frawley)
- [Leon Belasco](https://cinepixo.com/people/leon-belasco)

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