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 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. {{cite book}}: 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] "Spider's Web, the (1926) - 01". The New York Age. January 8, 1927. p. 6.

[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] "The Crisis". April 1979.

[6] "Entertainment-Jan-29-1927-1816312 | NewspaperArchive®".

[7] 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.

[8] Institute, American Film; Afi, American Film (1997). Within Our Gates: Ethnicity in American Feature Films, 1911-1960. ISBN 9780520209640. {{cite book}}: Missing |author1= (help)