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Velma Kelly is one of the main characters in the successful 1975 Broadway musical Chicago. Kelly is based on the character "Velma", who first appeared in the 1926 play, also called Chicago , who was in-turn inspired by the life of Belva Gaertner .
Belva Eleanora Gaertner (née Boosinger; September 14, 1884 – May 14, 1965) was an American woman who was acquitted of murder in a 1924 trial.She inspired the character of Velma in the 1926 play Chicago created by Maurine Dallas Watkins; Watkins reported on the trial for the Chicago Tribune.
The opening night cast starred Chita Rivera as Velma Kelly, Gwen Verdon as Roxie Hart, Jerry Orbach as Billy Flynn, and Barney Martin as Amos Hart. Velma Kelly had been a comparatively minor character in all versions of Chicago prior to the musical rendering. The role was fleshed out to balance Rivera's role opposite Verdon's Roxie Hart.
Robyn Hurder gives Broadway audiences the old razzle dazzle eight times a week as murderous vixen Velma Kelly in the long-running hit Chicago.. It's a role that the Tony Award-nominated stage ...
In 1975 she originated the role of Velma Kelly in the Broadway musical “Chicago.” In a nod to her work, she made a cameo in the 2002 film version, which starred Catherine Zeta-Jones, Renee ...
The triple threat (singer, dancer, actor) was also known for her starring role as Velma Kelly in the first Broadway production of Chicago in 1975. She later appeared as Nickie in the 2002 movie ...
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.
In the original production of Chicago, she was the first actress to play Velma Kelly. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] She appeared in two films, Paris Bound (1929) and Charming Sinners (1929). In 1935 and 1936, she toured in a production of Dodsworth with Walter Huston .