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 beautiful young woman from Harlem in New York City who travels to a small town in Mississippi where she recieves unwelcome courting.^[3] She returns to Harlem.^[4]^[5]

Cast[]

Evelyn Preer as Norma Shepard
as Elmer Harris, detective
Edward Thompson
^[6] as Madame Boley^[7]
Marshall Rodgers
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.
^ https://www.newspapers.com/clip/26244659/spiders-web-the-1926-01/
^ Stewart, Jacqueline Najuma (March 28, 2005). Migrating to the Movies: Cinema and Black Urban Modernity. University of California Press. ISBN 9780520936409 – via Google Books.
^ https://books.google.com/books?id=l8zfCCBZGGoC&pg=RA1-PA140&dq=%22henrietta+loveless%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjjxorz3aL1AhUVtTEKHQX-Bq0Q6AF6BAgLEAM#v=onepage&q=%22henrietta%20loveless%22&f=false
^ https://newspaperarchive.com/entertainment-clipping-jan-29-1927-1816312/
^ https://books.google.com/books?id=npbBCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA261&dq=%22henrietta+loveless%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&source=gb_mobile_search&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjjxorz3aL1AhUVtTEKHQX-Bq0Q6AF6BAgKEAM
^ 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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[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] ttps://www.newspapers.com/clip/26244659/spiders-web-the-1926-01/

[4] Stewart, Jacqueline Najuma (March 28, 2005). Migrating to the Movies: Cinema and Black Urban Modernity. University of California Press. ISBN 9780520936409 – via Google Books.

[5] ttps://books.google.com/books?id=l8zfCCBZGGoC&pg=RA1-PA140&dq=%22henrietta+loveless%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjjxorz3aL1AhUVtTEKHQX-Bq0Q6AF6BAgLEAM#v=onepage&q=%22henrietta%20loveless%22&f=false

[6] ttps://newspaperarchive.com/entertainment-clipping-jan-29-1927-1816312/

[7] ttps://books.google.com/books?id=npbBCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA261&dq=%22henrietta+loveless%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&source=gb_mobile_search&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjjxorz3aL1AhUVtTEKHQX-Bq0Q6AF6BAgKEAM

[8] 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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