Chicago (play)
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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 and Belva Gaertner, who were both ac
Beulah Annan and Belva Gaertner, 1924
Chicago Tribune image depicting the 1927 Chicago production of the play.
Adaptation in Pécs, Hungary, January 2024
Billy Flynn (Chicago)
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William Flynn is a fictional character from the 1926 play Chicago, written by Maurine Dallas Watkins, and its various derivative works and remakes.
Flynn (at right) as portrayed by Jerry Orbach in the Broadway adaptation, 1976
William Scott Stewart, front left, with Beulah Annan and her husband Albert, along with two unknown onlookers. Stewart was one of the inspirations for Flynn; the Annans were the inspiration for Roxie and Amos Hart.