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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.
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 Chicago ...
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.
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.
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.
Nov 19, 2010 · Since 1996: the closest thing to an official Maurine Watkins Web Site there is likely to be. Hosted and maintained by the most knowledgeable Maurine Watkins afficianado, John Elliott. And he's modest, too.
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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.
