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Maurine Dallas Watkins

Writer, Additional Credits
Born July 27, 1896Died August 10, 1969 (73 years)
Maurine Dallas Watkins was an American playwright and screenwriter. For a brief time she worked as a journalist covering the courthouse beat for the Chicago Tribune. This experience gave her the material for her most famous piece of work, which was eventually adapted into the Broadway musical Chicago.

Known For

  • Chicago
  • Libeled Lady
  • Up the River
  • I Love You Again
  • Roxie Hart
  • The Story of Temple Drake
  • Saratoga
  • Easy to Wed
  • Chicago
  • Too Hot to Handle

Filmography

1946
Easy to Wed · as Original Film Writer
1938
1937
1936
Libeled Lady · as Screenplay
1934
Strictly Dynamite · as Screenplay
1933
1933
1933
Child of Manhattan · as Screenplay
1932
No Man of Her Own · as Screenplay
1932
Play Girl · as Screenplay
1931
Doctors' Wives · as Screenplay

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