Beulah May Annan (November 1899 – March 10, 1928) was a suspected American murderess.
She is one of the subjects of Maurine Dallas Watkins' play Chicago, which has 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 whose name came from the character she inspired.
She was born Beulah May Sheriff in Owe...
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Beulah May Annan (November 1899 – March 10, 1928) was a suspected American murderess.
She is one of the subjects of Maurine Dallas Watkins' play Chicago, which has 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 whose name came from the character she inspired.
She was born Beulah May Sheriff in Owensboro, Kentucky to John Sheriff and Mary Neel. While living in Kentucky, she married her first husband, Perry Stephens, a newspaper linotype operator. They were divorced and she moved up to Chicago.
In Louisville, Kentucky, she married Albert (Al) Annan, a car mechanic. Shortly afterward, they moved to Chicago. In Chicago, Annan found work as a mechanic at a garage and Beulah decided she wanted to work as well, eventually becoming a bookkeeper at Tennant's Model laundry, where she met Harry Kalstedt. It apparently wasn't long before she and...
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