Maurine Dallas Watkins
Writer
July 27, 1896 — 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
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 |
| 2019 | Chicago · as Play "chicago" |
| 2002 | Chicago · as Theatre Play |
| 1942 | Roxie Hart · as Theatre Play |
| 1940 | I Love You Again · as Story |
| 1934 | A Wicked Woman · as Contributor To Dialogue |
| 1934 | Search for Beauty · as Story |
| 1933 | Hello, Sister! · as Contract Writer |
| 1932 | Hat Check Girl · as Contract Writer |
| 1932 | The Strange Love of Molly Louvain · as Theatre Play |
| 1930 | Up the River · as Story |
| 1927 | Chicago · as Theatre Play |