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Chicago (play)
Chicago
is a 1926 play written by
Maurine Dallas Watkins
, that is best known today as the inspiration for the 1975
stage musical
Chicago
. The play is a satire and was based on two unrelated 1924 court cases involving two women,
Beulah Annan
and
Belva Gaertner
, who were both suspected and later acquitted for murder, whom Watkins had covered for the
Chicago Tribune
as a reporter. The play would inspire a
1927 movie
;
Roxie Hart, a 1942 movie
; and a
1975 stage musical
, which in turn inspired the 2002
Best Picture-winning film
.
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