If you judge the figures of Dominick and Johnston by their surroundings, it’s no contest: Johnston’s restaurant is luxurious and boasts wealthy and influential patrons, while Dominick’s dance hall is a wide-open space filled with dames offering up dances at the the typical ten cents per twirl across the floor. We meet Dominick as he’s confronted by Johnston (Lee Shumway), a rival who does have armed underlings-“You tell those men to get their hands off the Roman candles,” Robinson orders-yet is expected to rely on Dominick’s liquor supply at his restaurant. In any case, Film Daily began mentioning Robinson in the Dominick role before April was out. Bee's "Movie Rambling" column in the Ogden Standard Examiner, April 6, 1930. Figure it good publicity." And below, you can make out the text, but it was clipped from Jay D. It is seriously stated by First National an offer to 'Scarface Al' Capone, Chicago beer baron, to appear in 'Widow from Chicago,' Alice White's next picture, has been made. At that point First National claimed to be leaning another way while trying to cast Dominick:Ībove text from Variety, April 2, 1930, page 2. It’s a natural role for Robinson, a warm-up to his next film, Little Caesar, though nobody was thinking about that when The Widow from Chicago was first announced. He’s the kingpin who the real Swifty was coming from Chicago to meet.
Robinson's Dominick is an underworld beer baron who runs his empire from an office located inside of the Crystal Dance Palace. Robinson who was getting the push from Warner Bros.-First National. The Widow from Chicago was hatched as the latest vehicle for Alice White, one of First National’s few remaining stars at this time, but by the time the film was released to theaters in November 1930 it was Edward G.
There’s a small surprise when an image of the police report of Jimmy’s death is followed by another of sister Polly’s name on a missing persons report, but that’s soon alleviated by Polly’s attention-grabbing entrance into the Crystal Dance Palace.Ībove: Alice White in The Widow from Chicago.
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While Hamilton alone was-and is-enough for audiences to sniff out survival, the same can’t be said for Harold Goodwin, and, sure enough, Goodwin’s Jimmy is rubbed out before the movie is six-minutes old. A flashback showing Swifty’s dive off the train reveals him as Neil Hamilton, a big enough star to clue us in from the start that Swifty survives his hasty exit, no matter what Jimmy believes. Polly’s brother Jimmy (Harold Goodwin) poses as Chicago gangster “Swifty” Dorgan, after he and another detective chase the real Swifty off a train that was headed into New York.
It really has nothing to do with any of this:Īlice White stars as Polly, who is neither a widow, nor from Chicago, but wants the New York hoods who killed her policeman brother to think she's both. Made as one thing, released and promoted as another, The Widow from Chicago is the story of the unlikely romance that brews from a woman’s infiltration of the New York underworld in search of vengeance.
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