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- Height5′ 5″ (1.65 m)
- Maurine Dallas Watkins was born on July 27, 1896 in Lexington, Kentucky, USA. She was a writer, known for Chicago (2002), Easy to Wed (1946) and Chicago (1927). She died on August 10, 1969 in Jacksonville, Florida, USA.
- 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)).
- She studied playwriting workshop with George Pierce Baker who taught Eugene O'Neill and Philip Barry among his students.
- She attended high school in Crawfordsville, Indiana. She studied at Butler University and at graduate school at Radcliffe College in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
- She moved to Chicago, Illinois in 1924.
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