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Maurine Dallas Watkins (July 27, 1896 – August 10, 1969) was an American playwright and screenwriter. Early in her career, she briefly worked as a journalist covering the courthouse beat for the Chicago Tribune.
Jul 16, 1997 · Maurine Dallas Watkins moved to Chicago from Radcliffe, Massachusetts and in February, 1924 landed a job as a reporter with the Chicago Tribune. Her assignment was to write about crime in Chicago with a woman’s perspective.
Chicago is a play written by Maurine Dallas Watkins. The play, while fiction, is a satire based on two unrelated 1924 court cases involving two women, Beulah Annan (the inspiration for Roxie Hart ) and Belva Gaertner (the inspiration for Velma ), who were both suspected and later acquitted of murder, whom Watkins had covered for the ...
Maurine Dallas Watkins (1896-1969) is little remembered today, despite being the author of Chicago (1926) the smash Broadway comedy about two “merry murderesses” with showbiz aspirations that would, fifty decades after its premiere, inspire the smash Broadway musical of the same name.
Aug 8, 2019 · Maurine Dallas Watkins died on Aug. 10, 1969 — 50 years ago this weekend — in Jacksonville, Fla. Don’t be surprised if Watkins’ name is unfamiliar. A nine-line death notice in the Florida...
Maurine Watkins was born 26 July 1896 in Louisville, Kentucky, at her grandmother's house on Merritt street. Her mother and father had met only a few blocks from there while he was preaching at the Preston Christian church.
Jul 11, 2017 · In 1924, 28-year-old Maurine Dallas Watkins arrived in Chicago, a city quickly becoming a mecca for crime, liquor, and jazz. Watkins was an aspiring writer and playwright from Harvard University, and news writing was recommended as a way for writers to hone their craft and gain exposure to a broad range of human experiences.
