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Renée Zellweger as Roxie Hart, a housewife who aspires to be a vaudevillian, and is arrested for the murder of her deceitful paramour Fred Casely. Charlize Theron , Marisa Tomei , Christina Applegate , Mira Sorvino , Jennifer Jason Leigh , Milla Jovovich , and Jennifer Aniston were considered for the role.
Renée Kathleen Zellweger (/ r ə ˌ n eɪ ˈ z ɛ l w ɛ ɡ ər / rə-NAY ZEL-weg-ər; born April 25, 1969) is an American actress.The recipient of various accolades, including two Academy Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, and four Golden Globe Awards, she was one of the world's highest-paid actresses by 2007.
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 originally opened in New York City in 1975 and follows two performers, Roxie Hart and Velma Kelly, who find themselves on trial for murder and compete for the legal representation of the ...
Ant Anstead can't stop gushing over Renée Zellweger!. The British automotive expert, 45, shared his sweet reaction to the movie poster for his girlfriend’s newest project, Bridget Jones: Mad ...
By JENNY DEPPER Welcome to The Great White Way, Jennifer Nettles. The country crooner, 40, will make her Broadway debut as Roxie Hart in "Chicago," next year and based on recent promotional photos ...
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 ...