Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Roxanne "Roxie" Hart is a fictional character originally from the 1927 play Chicago. The playwright, reporter Maurine Dallas Watkins, was inspired by the real-life 1924 murder trials of Beulah Annan and Belva Gaertner (for separate crimes), which she covered for the Chicago Tribune. (Both women were acquitted.) Annan was the basis for Roxie Hart.[citation needed]The play made it to Broadway in 1926 and ran for 172 performances. Gaertner attended the Chicago opening.. }
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- Roxie_Hart comment "Roxanne "Roxie" Hart is a fictional character originally from the 1927 play Chicago. The playwright, reporter Maurine Dallas Watkins, was inspired by the real-life 1924 murder trials of Beulah Annan and Belva Gaertner (for separate crimes), which she covered for the Chicago Tribune. (Both women were acquitted.) Annan was the basis for Roxie Hart.[citation needed]The play made it to Broadway in 1926 and ran for 172 performances. Gaertner attended the Chicago opening.".