Mary Nolan Ziegfeld Girl and Silent Movie Star : A Biography Including Her 1941 Memoir (Paperback)

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Mary Nolan (1905-1948) also known as Imogene Bubbles Wilson was the subject of two infamous court cases-one with Frank Tinney and the other with Eddie Mannix-in the 1920s. Like many Ziegfeld Follies girls she had the beginnings of a promising career but by the 1930s it had been destroyed by adultery drugs and physical abuse. This biography follows Nolan s life from the backwoods of Kentucky to her death in 1948. Included is a series of newspaper articles published in 1941 that were to be expanded into her memoir which she was unable to complete before her death. -- Mary Nolan (1905-1948) also known as Imogene Bubbles Wilson was the subject of two infamous court cases--one with Frank Tinney and the other with Eddie Mannix--in the 1920s. Like many Ziegfeld Follies girls she had the beginnings of a promising career but by the 1930s it had been destroyed by adultery drugs and physical abuse. This biography follows Nolan s life from the backwoods of Kentucky to her death in 1948. Included is a series of newspaper articles published in 1941 that were to be expanded into her memoir which she was unable to complete before her death.