If you liked the musical Chicago, you have to see this. It’s the 1942 non-musical version of the same basic tale, starring Ginger Rogers as a dark-haired Roxie Hart, and Adolphe Menjou as her flashy attorney, Billy Flynn. As docudramas go, it’s pretty loose with the facts: Hart, after all, is based on the story of accused murderess Beulah Annan, so even the names have been changed to protect the not-so-innocent. But entertaining? Absolutely – and Rogers clearly revels in playing a bad girl for once.

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