The Spider's Web (1926 film)

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 woman for Harlem, New York who travels to a small town in Mississippi and then returns to Harlem.[3]

Cast
  • Evelyn Preer as Norma Shepard
  • Lorenzo McLane
  • Edward Thompson
  • Grace Smyth[4]
  • Marshall Rodgers
  • Henrietta Loveless
  • Billy Gulfport
  • Dorothy Treadwell[5]

References
  1. 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.
  2. "The Girl from Chicago". The Criterion Channel.
  3. Stewart, Jacqueline Najuma (March 28, 2005). Migrating to the Movies: Cinema and Black Urban Modernity. University of California Press. ISBN 9780520936409 – via Google Books.
  4. https://newspaperarchive.com/entertainment-clipping-jan-29-1927-1816312/
  5. Institute, American Film; Afi, American Film (1997). Within Our Gates: Ethnicity in American Feature Films, 1911-1960. ISBN 9780520209640. Missing |author1= (help)


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