![]() ![]() In The Girls of Murder City, Douglas Perry, the online features editor of The Oregonian, tells their stories in delicious and devilish detail. These days, almost no one knows that Chicago was inspired by the trials and acquittals of Belva Gaertner, a former cabaret dancer who left the stage to marry one of America's leading manufacturers of scientific instruments and Beulah Annan, a beauty whose favorite record was "Hula Lou," the tale of a "gal who never could be true." In 2002, Chicago returned to Hollywood - and won the Academy Award for Best Picture. In 1975, a musical adaptation by director and choreographer Bob Fosse took Broadway by storm, went on tour and reappeared 20 years later to become the longest-running revival on the Great White Way. Fifteen years later, Twentieth Century Fox remade Chicago as a talkie. DeMille produced a silent-movie version of the play. ![]() ![]() Written by crime reporter Maurine Watkins, the play sought to "put an end to the ghastly business of railroading pretty women safely through murder trials by making fools of the solemn jurymen."Ĭhicago has been a staple of American popular culture ever since. The Girls of Murder City: Fame, Lust, and the Beautiful Killers who Inspired ChicagoĬhicago, theater critic Rupert Hughes wrote in 1926, was a work of genius. ![]()
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