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1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Maurine_Dallas_WatkinsMaurine Dallas Watkins - Wikipedia

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   screenwriter. journalist. Maurine Dallas Watkins (July 27, 1896 [a] – 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. This experience gave her the material for her most famous piece of work, the stage play, Chicago (1926 ...

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3. chicagology.com › chicagotribune › maurinewatkinsMaurine Dallas Watkins - chicagology

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   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.

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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.

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   Who was Maurine Dallas Watkins?

   • 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. By early April, she was winning front-page bylines, no small feat in those days, and the stories she wrote were doozies.

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   Who was Maurine Watkins?

   • Maurine Watkins was born on July 27, 1896, in Louisville, the only child of a minister named George Wilson Watkins and his wife, Georgia May Long Watkins, a schoolteacher. The family moved to Crawfordsville, Ind., where Watkins attended high school. Her yearbook described her as the “prettiest girl in the senior class.”

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   How did Maurine Watkins get her first newspaper job?

   • Her first byline came with an account of a case involving a woman named Beulah Annan. By Louise Kiernan, Tribune Staff Writer. No one knows exactly how Maurine Watkins got her first and last full-time newspaper job, only that she breezed into the Chicago Tribune newsroom on the second day of February in 1924.

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   What happened to Dorothy Watkins 'Chicago'?

   • The play’s origins and its author, though, have faded into dim footnotes. After “Chicago,” Watkins never had another one of her plays produced, and she died in obscurity in 1969, a mysterious recluse who wore a black veil over her face whenever she appeared in public.

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6. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Chicago_(play)Chicago (play) - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

7. www.historymatterscelebratingwomensplaysofthepast.orgMaurine Dallas Watkins - History Matters: Celebrating Women's ...

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   Biography. 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.

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9. www.chicagotribune.com › 2019/12/03 › he-had-it‘He Had It Coming’ looks back on the ‘Murderess Row’ that ...

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   Dec 3, 2019 · Learn how the reporter who covered the notorious women on 'Murderess Row' in 1920s Chicago inspired the hit play and film 'Chicago'. The book 'He Had It Coming' by Kori Rumore, Marianne Mather and the Chicago Tribune tells the true stories of four women who killed their husbands or lovers.

10. www.maurinewatkins.com › index1-herlifeMaurine Dallas Watkins Website Her Life

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    Maurine Dallas Watkins Website Her Life. Birth. 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.