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Roxie Hart

film by Wellman [1942]

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“Chicago”

In Chicago
The story inspired another movie, Roxie Hart (1942), with Ginger Rogers in the title role. The Broadway play Chicago, the first musical based on Watkins’s story, premiered in 1975. The production was directed and choreographed by Bob Fosse, and it starred Gwen Verdon, Chita Rivera, and Jerry Orbach. The musical’s…
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discussed in biography

In William Wellman: Films of the 1940s
…greater success with the comedy Roxie Hart (1942), which many decades later would be the basis for the Broadway musical and film (2002) Chicago. A string of largely unexceptional motion pictures preceded the next entry in Wellman’s film canon, the Academy Award-nominated The Ox-Bow Incident (1943; known as Strange Incident…
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role of Montgomery

In George Montgomery
…Gentlemen from West Point (1942), Roxie Hart (1942), and Coney Island (1943).
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