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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 · Learn about the life and career of Maurine Dallas Watkins, who covered crime stories for the Chicago Tribune and wrote the play "Chicago" based on two notorious murderesses. Discover how she became a Broadway sensation and a reclusive mystery after her success.
Aug 8, 2019 · Learn about the life and legacy of Maurine Dallas Watkins, who covered Cook County murder trials for the Chicago Tribune and created the hit play 'Chicago' in 1926. Find out why she never received an obituary from the newspaper and how her stories inspired a musical and a movie.
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.
Nov 19, 2010 · The Maurine Dallas Watkins Website Since 1996. "How Yale Begat Chicago." There is a new article about Maurine Watkins, written by Judith A. Schiff, called " How Yale Begat Chicago ." Schiff is the chief archivist at Yale University Library.
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.
