Maurine Dallas Watkins(1896-1969)

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Maurine Dallas Watkins was born on 27 July 1896 in Lexington, Kentucky, USA. She was a writer, known for Chicago (2002), Easy to Wed (1946) and Chicago (1927). She died on 10 August 1969 in Jacksonville, Florida, USA.

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Chicago

7.2

Writer

2002

Buster Keaton, Lucille Ball, Van Johnson, Jack Cummings, Dorothy Kingsley, George Oppenheimer, Howard Emmett Rogers, Edward Sedgwick, Maurine Dallas Watkins, Esther Williams, and Keenan Wynn in Easy to Wed (1946)

Easy to Wed

6.1

Writer(as Maurice Watkins)

1946

Chicago

7.3

Writer

1927

Up the River

5.9

Writer

1930

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Writer

Chicago
7.5
- play "Chicago"
- 2019
Chicago
7.2
- play "Chicago"
- 2002
Easy to Wed
6.1
- from the screen play "Libeled Lady" by (as Maurice Watkins)
- 1946
Roxie Hart
6.9
- play "Chicago" (as Maurine Watkins)
- 1942
I Love You Again
7.4
- original story (as Maurine Watkins)
- 1940
Up the River
5.7
- story
- 1938
Too Hot to Handle
6.6
- Writer (uncredited)
- 1938
Saratoga
6.5
- Writer (uncredited)
- 1937
Libeled Lady
7.8
- screen play (as Maurine Watkins)
- 1936
A Wicked Woman
6.6
- contributor to dialogue (uncredited)
- 1934
Strictly Dynamite
5.7
- screen play (as Maureen Watkins)
- 1934
Search for Beauty
6.0
- story by (as Maurine Watkins)
- 1934
Professional Sweetheart
6.0
- Writer (as Maurine Watkins)
- 1933
The Story of Temple Drake
7.1
- Writer (uncredited)
- 1933
Hello, Sister!
6.3
- contract writer (uncredited)
- 1933

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Personal details

Official site
- Maurine Dallas Watkins: Films, Plays and Stories [John Elliott]
Alternative names
- Maureen Watkins
Height
- 5′ 5″ (1.65 m)
Born
- July 27, 1896
- Lexington, Kentucky, USA
Died
- August 10, 1969
- Jacksonville, Florida, USA(undisclosed)
Other works
Stage: Wrote "Revelry", produced on Broadway. Based the novel by Samuel Hopkins Adams. Directed / produced by Robert Milton. Theatre Masque: 12 Sep 1927-Oct 1927 (closing date unknown/48 performances). Cast: Harry Bannister, 'Lionel Bevans' (as "Second Guard"), Frederick Burton, Berton Churchill (as "Willis Markham"), James Crane, Jefferson De Angelis, Charles Ellis, Rose Hobart (as "Gladys Hartley"), Irene Homer, Adele Klaer, George MacFarlane, William B. Mack, David Munroe, Eleanor Woodruff.
Publicity listings
- 1 Article

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Trivia
Her non-musical play "Chicago, or, Play Ball" has become one of the most adapted plays in history. The play was a silent Cecil B. DeMille feature in 1927 (Chicago (1927)), a Ginger Rogers comedy in 1942 (Roxie Hart (1942)), a Bob Fosse Broadway musical ("Chicago: A Musical Vaudeville") and a 2002 Oscar-winning musical film (Chicago (2002)).