Maurine Dallas Watkins
Maurine Dallas Watkins was an American playwright and screenwriter. In early , Watkins began working as a reporter for the Chicago Tribune. Although she only worked there for eight months, she published around 50 stories covering trials in the courthouse. She wrote about the trials of Belva Gaertner, a twice-divorced cabaret singer, and Beulah Sheriff Annan. Both women were found innocent of murder, but Watkins believed they were guilty. The cases inspired her to write the play Chicago, which went on to be adapted into the Broadway musical of the same name, and then made into a successful movie in Watkins wrote another 20 plays during her career, but none were as successful as Chicago. In the s, she turned to screenwriting and wrote or co-wrote at least ten films, including Up the River (), screwball comedy No Man of Her Own (), and Libeled Lady ().
Maurine Dallas Watkins
Maurine Dallas Watkins moved to Chicago from Radcliffe, Massachusetts and in February, 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.
Her first byline came with an account of a case involving a woman named Beulah Annan.
Chicago Tribune, July 16,
Tribune Reporter Maurine Watkins Achieved Her Greatest Fame With &#;Chicago,&#; a Play Based On Two Sensational Local Crimes
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
One story&#; and there are several&#; has it that she wrote the city editor a letter that listed 13 reasons why he should hire her and challenged him to find the 14th, counting on superstition and moxie to do the trick.
Maureen Dallas Watkins, Reporter for the Chicago Tribune
In another version, she charmed him with her looks. With big, blue eyes a
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Maurine Dallas Watkins () is little remembered today, despite being the author of Chicago () 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. The play was based on Watkins’s observations as journalist covering the Windy City’s sensational Jazz Age murder trials.
Watkins’ career encompassed more than Chicago—she earned a playwriting degree from Yale School of Drama (earning the highest grade yet given in the course for her thesis play, Chicago), she wrote the controversial Broadway play Revelry () based on scandals in the Harding administration, and she wrote or co-wrote at least ten films, including Up the River (Best Picture nominee, ), the screwball comedy No Man of Her Own () and Libeled Lady (a comedy starring Myrna Loy and Jean Harlow). In , influential critic Burns Mantle considered Waktins so significant that he devoted several pages to her career in American Playwrights of Today, notably more than the passing mention given her contemporaries S.N. Behrman, Susan Glaspell, and Ben Hecht.
In her later years,
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