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Beulah May Annan (née Sheriff; November 18, 1899 – March 10, 1928) was an American suspected murderer.Her story inspired Maurine Dallas Watkins's play Chicago in 1926. . The play was adapted into a 1927 silent film, a 1975 stage musical, and a 2002 movie musical (which won the Academy Award for Best Picture), all with that title, and a 1942 romantic comedy film, Roxie Hart, named for the ...
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 Kelly), who were both suspected and later acquitted of murder, whom Watkins had covered for the Chicago Tribune as a reporter.
The playwright, reporter Maurine Dallas Watkins, was inspired by the trials, both of which ended in acquittals, of Beulah Annan and Belva Gaertner (for separate crimes), which she covered for the Chicago Tribune. Annan's story served as the basis for the play: she had killed her paramour Harry Kalstedt and was able to convince her auto mechanic ...
The full film. Chicago is a 1927 American silent crime comedy-drama film produced by Cecil B. DeMille and directed by Frank Urson.The first film adaptation of Maurine Dallas Watkins' play of the same name, the film stars Phyllis Haver as Roxie Hart, a fame-obsessed housewife who kills her lover in cold blood and, after trying to coerce her husband into taking the blame, is put on trial for murder.
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In present time, 1942, Homer finishes his story and gets up. He speaks to the bartender, who turns out to be O'Malley, the former stockbroker, who lost everything in the 1929 stock market crash . A moment later, Homer is picked up from the bar by his wife, Roxie, who arrives with their six children and announces she is pregnant with another.
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