The Spider's Web (1926 film)
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The Spider's Web is a 1926 Oscar Micheaux film starring Evelyn Preer.[1] It was remade in 1932 as The Girl from Chicago.[2]
The film is about a beautiful young woman from Harlem in New York City who travels to a small town in Mississippi where she receives unwelcome courting.[3] She returns to Harlem.[4][5]
Cast
- Evelyn Preer as Norma Shepard
- Lorenzo McLane as Elmer Harris, detective
- Edward Thompson
- Grace Smyth[6] as Madame Boley[7]
- Marshall Rodgers
- Henrietta Loveless
- Billy Gulfport
- Dorothy Treadwell[8]
References
- ^ Musser, Charles; Gaines, Jane Marie; Bowser, Pearl (March 28, 2016). Oscar Micheaux and His Circle: African-American Filmmaking and Race Cinema of the Silent Era. Indiana University Press. ISBN 9780253021557 – via Google Books.
- ^ "The Girl from Chicago". The Criterion Channel.
- ^ "Spider's Web, the (1926) - 01". The New York Age. January 8, 1927. p. 6.
- ^ Stewart, Jacqueline Najuma (March 28, 2005). Migrating to the Movies: Cinema and Black Urban Modernity. University of California Press. ISBN 9780520936409 – via Google Books.
- ^ "The Crisis". April 1979.
- ^ "Entertainment-Jan-29-1927-1816312 | NewspaperArchive®".
- ^ Musser, Charles; Gaines, Jane Marie; Bowser, Pearl (March 28, 2016). Oscar Micheaux and His Circle: African-American Filmmaking and Race Cinema of the Silent Era. ISBN 9780253021557.
- ^ Institute, American Film; Afi, American Film (1997). Within Our Gates: Ethnicity in American Feature Films, 1911-1960. ISBN 9780520209640.
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