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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.
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.
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...
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 Dallas Watkins was born on 27 July 1896 in Lexington, Kentucky, USA. She was a writer, known for Chicago (2002), Search for Beauty (1934) and Easy to Wed (1946). She died on 10 August 1969 in Jacksonville, Florida, USA.
