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
Roxie Hart
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Roxanne "Roxie" Hart is a fictional character. She is the main character of the 1926 play Chicago and its various remakes and derivatives.
Chicago (play)
…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 accused and later acquitted of murder, whom Watkins had covered for the Chicago Tribune…
Roxie Hart as portrayed by Ginger Rogers in the eponymous 1942 film
Role originator Francine Larrimore portrays Roxie in a Chicago Tribune portrait from the Chicago production.