Louisville, Kentucky, U.S. (or possibly Lexington, KY)
Died
August 10, 1969(1969-08-10) (aged 73)
Jacksonville, Florida, U.S.
Education
Butler College Radcliffe College Yale Drama School
Occupations
Playwright
screenwriter
journalist
Maurine Dallas Watkins (July 27, 1896[a] – August 10, 1969) was an American playwright and screenwriter. Early in her career, she briefly 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, the stage play, Chicago (1926), which was eventually adapted into the 1975 Broadway musical of the same name, which was then made into a film in 2002 that won six Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
Watkins was born in Kentucky and grew up in Indiana. She graduated with honors from Butler University and headed to Radcliffe, where she received training as a dramatist. She left Radcliffe and was in advertising in Chicago in the early 1920s. She then landed a job as a reporter before returning to university at what became Yale Drama School and play-writing success. Watkins went on to write screenplays in Hollywood, eventually retiring to Florida.
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