{"id":961,"date":"2006-04-19T12:36:34","date_gmt":"2006-04-19T19:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=961"},"modified":"2020-12-21T18:00:16","modified_gmt":"2020-12-22T01:00:16","slug":"girl-from-chicago-the-1932","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=961","title":{"rendered":"Girl From Chicago, The (1932)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;Go ahead, Wade &#8212; smack me in the mouth with your fists so I can love you!&#8221; <\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/Girl-From-Chicago-Poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/Girl-From-Chicago-Poster-188x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"188\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-46924\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/Girl-From-Chicago-Poster-188x300.jpg 188w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/Girl-From-Chicago-Poster-80x128.jpg 80w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/Girl-From-Chicago-Poster.jpg 627w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 188px) 100vw, 188px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nA young schoolteacher (Star Calloway) falls in love with a secret service agent (Carl Mahon) who tries to prove that a singer (Eunice Brooks) has been falsely accused of murder.  <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>African-Americans<\/li>\n<li>Falsely Accused<\/li>\n<li>Juano Hernandez Films<\/li>\n<li>Musical<\/li>\n<li>Romance<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Response to Peary&#8217;s Review:<\/strong><br \/>\nAs Peary notes, &#8220;everyone should see at least one film by the notorious Oscar Micheaux &#8212; the most prolific black director of all time, and arguably the worst.&#8221; Peary&#8217;s seemingly random Micheaux selection for his book &#8212; 1932&#8217;s <em>The Girl From Chicago<\/em> &#8212; is indeed dreadful: heads and other body parts are routinely cut out of the frame; the musical interludes are boring; the storyline holds little interest; and, as Peary notes, &#8220;the acting by the light-skinned blacks is wretched.&#8221; Yet this and other Micheaux films are notable for having all-black casts at a time when Hollywood films were literally dominated by white actors, and are worth a brief look simply for historical purposes. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities and Moments:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A representative film by the most prolific black director of all time<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/Girl-From-Chicago-Still.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/Girl-From-Chicago-Still-1024x634.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"396\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-46925\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/Girl-From-Chicago-Still-1024x634.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/Girl-From-Chicago-Still-300x186.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/Girl-From-Chicago-Still-128x79.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/Girl-From-Chicago-Still-768x476.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/Girl-From-Chicago-Still.png 1451w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nYes &#8212; simply because, as Peary notes, every film fanatic should see at least one film by Micheaux (though it doesn&#8217;t necessarily need to be this one). <\/p>\n<p><strong>Categories<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Important Director<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Links:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0022941\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Go ahead, Wade &#8212; smack me in the mouth with your fists so I can love you!&#8221; Synopsis: A young schoolteacher (Star Calloway) falls in love with a secret service agent (Carl Mahon) who tries to prove that a singer (Eunice Brooks) has been falsely accused of murder. Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors: African-Americans Falsely Accused Juano Hernandez Films Musical Romance Response to Peary&#8217;s Review: As Peary notes, &#8220;everyone should see at least one film by the notorious Oscar Micheaux&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=961\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-responses-to-peary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=961"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58933,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961\/revisions\/58933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}