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In Roxie Hart ( 1942 ), based on the same play which served as the template for the later musical Chicago, Ginger played a wise-cracking wife on trial for a murder her husband committed.
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From February to April 16, 2006, she played the role of Roxie Hart in the Broadway play Chicago.
Also, that summer Williams made history by becoming the first African-American actress to play murderous chorus-girl Roxie Hart in the London West End run of the stage musical Chicago.
In 1926, Eagels was offered the part of Roxie Hart in Maurine Dallas Watkins's play Chicago, but Eagels walked out of this role during rehearsals.
Drawn from the play of the same name by Maurine Dallas Watkins which was in turn based on the true story of Beulah Annan, fictionalized as Roxie Hart ( Phyllis Haver ), and her spectacular murder of her boyfriend.
* Phyllis Haver as Roxie Hart
* Roxie Hart ( film )
The play has since been adapted into a 1927 silent film, 1975 stage musical, and 2002 movie musical ( which won the Academy Award for Best Picture ), all by that name, as well as the 1942 romantic comedy film Roxie Hart.
The character was known as simply " Velma " in the 1927 film and as " Velma Wall " in the 1942 film ; both were lesser characters in comparison to Velma Kelly as well as Roxie Hart, the Beulah Annan-inspired character who appeared in all versions of Chicago.
Beulah Annan became " Roxie Hart "; Belva Gaertner, " Velma Kelly "; Albert Annan, " Amos Hart "; and the two lawyers, William Scott Stewart and W. W. O ' Brien, were combined in a composite character, " Billy Flynn " ( O ' Brien seems to have been the closest direct match ).
Director Sam Forrest was replaced by George Abbott at the request of Jeanne Eagels ( Roxie Hart ); but Eagels quit the show within a few days, and Francine Larrimore replaced Eagels.
A 1927 silent film version produced and supervised by Cecil B. DeMille and starring former Mack Sennett bathing beauty Phyllis Haver as Roxie Hart, was remade as Roxie Hart in 1942 with Ginger Rogers in the title role.
* Roxie Hart ( 1942 )
The play has been adapted into a 1927 silent film, 1975 stage musical, and 2002 movie musical ( which won the Academy Award for Best Picture ), all with that title, and a 1942 romantic comedy film, Roxie Hart, named for the character Annan inspired.
* Roxie Hart ( 1942 )
On April 8, 2011, in New York, Brinkley made her stage debut as Roxie Hart in the long-running musical Chicago.
* Broadway Beacon Award for her her portrayal of Roxie Hart in the hit musical Chicago ( June 4, 2012 ).
Neuwirth would later return to the still-running revival of Chicago in 2006, this time as Roxie Hart.
* Roxie Hart ( 1942 )
She returned to the West End theatre in April 2006 ( for the first time since 1998 ) playing the murderess Roxie Hart in the long-running West End musical Chicago and again in Dec 2007-Feb 2008 in the same role, also in 2006-7 she appeared in the Birmingham and Plymouth tours of Guys and Dolls playing Miss Adelaide Adams, a dance hall hostess.
From summer 2009 Bonnie again appeared in Chicago as Roxie Hart in Canada and also on Broadway in New York from September-November 2009 ( Bonnie returning to Broadway for the first time in 35 years ) & again at the Cambridge Theatre in London's West End in Dec 2009-Jan 2010.
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* Roxie Hart ( 1942 )
In 1942, he played opposite Gene Tierney in China Girl, jazz musician Glenn Miller in Orchestra Wives, and Ginger Rogers in Roxie Hart.
* Roxie Hart ( 1942 )
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K Rock's most successful lineup was in the mid-1990s featuring " Dave & Roxie on the Big Mattress " ( Dave Gorr, Roxanne Bennett and Brendan Roberts ' character voices ), Steve Woods ( also Program Director ), Todd Austin, Frank Fursey & Wazza ( Warren Penny ).
Romey is a tall ( six-foot-three-inch ), blue, furry humanoid male mascot with yellow hair, while Roxie, who was added to the team after the 2005 season, is five-feet-five-inches tall, humanoid, a lighter blue, and has a large yellow ponytail.
On 1 – 15 November 1979, the Roxie hosted the U. S. premiere of Luis Buñuel's L ' Âge d ' Or ( 1930 ), a film that had been banned for almost 50 years.
During her initial run on Trading Spaces, Davis played the role of Roxie Hart in the musical Chicago on Broadway, and wrote the book Paige by Paige ( ISBN 0-696-21836-4 ), chronicling her television experiences.
Both dressers still have to deal with Captain Maxwell and Roxie – the latter of whom also has to deal with Armand ( Christopher Maher ), another Illustra employee who keeps angling for sex with her.
Henshall's Broadway credits include Stephen Sondheim's Putting It Together, Chicago ( as both Velma and Roxie ), and The Vagina Monologues.
* Roxie Nicholson ( born 1950 ), U. S. Department of Labor welfare policy analyst
* Beulah Annan ( 1899 – 1928 ), suspected American murderess ( model for Roxie Hart )
Playing alongside Aoife Mulholland ( as his wife Roxie Hart ), Collins rehearsed for the role of Amos Hart at the Cambridge Theatre.
Schmidt-Schultz, M. Schultz, Sameh Shafik, Eugen Strouhal, Elizabeth Thompson, Naguib Victor and Roxie Walker, The Teti Cemetery at Saqqara, Volume VII: The Tombs of Shepsipuptah, Mereri ( Merinebti ), Hefi and Others, ( Warminster, 2001 ).
Schmidt-Schultz, M. Schultz, Sameh Shafik, Eugen Strouhal, Elizabeth Thompson, Naguib Victor, Roxie Walker and Alex Woods, The Unis Cemetery at Saqqara, Volume II: The Tombs of Iynefert and Ihy ( re-used by Idut ), ( Oxford, 2003 ).
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On December 26, 2005, the San Francisco Chronicle reported that the Roxie had agreed to be acquired by New College of California, a small liberal arts college also based in the Mission District.
The puppet of Griotte is based on that of Roxie Marie, a character who appeared on the original American Sesame Street during part of the 1990s.
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Smith had also worked with Kravitz ' mother Roxie Roker, on the hit sitcom The Jeffersons.
Roxie Roker, Kravitz's mother, died in California on December 2, 1995, of breast cancer at the age of 66.
Forty-nine years later, on 1 November 1979, it had its formal premiere exhibition in the U. S., at the The Roxie, in San Francisco.
The Roxie became part of New College's Media Studies Program on January 1, 2006, and was renamed the " Roxie Film Center at New College ".
* Article on the Roxie by Roger Rose in CineSource September 4, 2008
Her most notable roles to date are as a presenter on The Big Breakfast, and as Roxie Hart in the musical Chicago on both the West End and on Broadway.
Roxie Albertha Roker ( August 28, 1929 – December 2, 1995 ) was an American actress, best known for her groundbreaking role as Helen Willis on the sitcom The Jeffersons, half of the first interracial couple to be shown on regular prime time television.
While on a moonlight walk with his girlfriend Roxie Shield, Jonathan sees the mannequin he created ( and was fired over ) in the window of Prince & Company, an upscale department store.
Roxie storms out of the office, swearing that Jonathan will never lay eyes on Emmy ever again.
Fraser went back to England on furlough in 1924 and when he returned to " Lisuland " in 1929, he was married, to Roxie Dymond, the daughter of a Methodist missionary stationed in Kunming.
Wilson has performed on Broadway, where she performed the role of Roxie Hart from June – August 2006 in the revival of Chicago.
She returned to the role of Roxie in Chicago at the Cambridge Theatre, London, on 14 December 2009 and completed her run on 24 April 2010.
He married Roxie Bailey in 1906 ; she died on March 7, 1907, and he remained a widower.
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