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For the play, Annan was fictionalized as Roxie Hart, Kalstedt became Fred Casely, and Albert became Amos Hart. Some of the details of Gaertner's crime, including her past as a vaudeville singer (Annan was a bookkeeper) and blaming of her misdeed on getting drunk, were also applied to the Roxie character. [1]
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.
Roxie Hart (also known as Chicago or Chicago Gal) is a 1942 American comedy film directed by William A. Wellman, and starring Ginger Rogers, Adolphe Menjou and George Montgomery. A film adaptation of a 1926 play Chicago by Maurine Dallas Watkins , a journalist who found inspiration in two real-life Chicago trials ( Beulah Annan and Belva ...
“Vanderpump Rules” star Ariana Madix will make her Broadway debut as Roxie Hart in “Chicago.”. She will play the blond-haired ingenue, the one whose name is on everybody’s lips, for an ...
Kelly's plans are upended when Roxie Hart, a failed vaudeville aspirant accused of murdering her paramour, arrives in the jail and hires Flynn, who promptly shifts the media circus to Hart and away from Kelly. William Morris drops their offer, and Kelly remains resentful of Hart for the rest of the show, though she begrudgingly concedes that ...
Erika Jayne is back on Broadway! Four years after the COVID-19 pandemic cut her run as Roxie Hart in Chicago short, the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star will return to the role next year for ...
NEW YORK (AP) — “Pose” star Angelica Ross is set to make her Broadway debut in “Chicago” this fall, becoming the first openly transgender actor to play the murderous vixen Roxie Hart in ...
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 ...