Historian, biographer and reluctant twitter convert, author of Madam: The Biography of Polly Adler, Icon of the Jazz Age (@Doubledaybooks 2021)
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Agatha Christie on Princess Pier, in her birthplace of Torquay, 1910. This week, the Death on the Nile UK & Ireland tour is playing at Princess Theatre, overlooking the pier!
📷© The Christie Archive Trust
#OTD 138th Bday of the silent film sex symbol, #ThedaBara. #Madam #PollyAdler modeled herself on "The Vamp" as a teenager in Brooklyn. From the Polly Adler Collection courtesy of Eleanor Vera.
Thanks to Grace Beattie for the frank and frisky conversation about #Madam #PollyAdler on @wickedwomenthepodcast!
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#OTD at 4:25am in 1962 #Madam #PollyAdler dies of lung cancer at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital (now @CedarsSinai) "the hospital of the stars," attended by noted “chest surgeon” Dr. Alfred Goldman.
#OTD - June 6, 1953 was the #pubdate of #PollyAdler’s #blockbuster memoir of life as a #madam - A House is Not a Home – a #bestseller, it sold 2 million copies. Here she is at #historicLA's famous Pickwick Bookshop.
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A little sly bit of trick-the-eye in the photo of Paulette Goddard - who was born this day, 6/2/1910.......
#BOTD
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.@tcm_party If you're watching #SheDoneHomWrong, these are the platform shoes #MaeWest seats under those floor-length gowns. Gives her 5 extra inches.
#OTD in #Irishgangster news - @NYDailyNews on the notorious Legs Diamond, "the human amunition dump" of #PollyAdler's #JazzAge Manhattan
I adore Kitty Kelley and couldn't be more pleased to see how my admiration is shared by her fellow biographers. Thanks for all you've done for our profession @KittyKelley biographersinternational.org…
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Collection Box of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, 1834 bit.ly/2LQry9p
From: Randolph Linsly Simpson African-American collection
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Fun Fact: Star of the Month William Powell & Myrna Loy were so often mistaken as a married couple that they had to specifically request separate hotel rooms, as desk clerks would assume they were together in real life.
See them tonight in THE THIN MAN series starting at 8pm ET.
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Trailblazing actor Anna May Wong is making her debut in the Barbie’s Inspiring Women series as the first Asian American figure.
Our featured document exhibit highlights the extraordinary journey of #AnnaMayWong and her battles against racism.
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#AANHPI
ALT A cutout of Anna May Wong’s Certificate of Identity that was issued to her in 1924. It features a profile photo and relevant descriptive information in a red box.
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Congratulations to Yale historian Beverly Gage on winning the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in Biography!
Read more about Gage and her book, “G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century," here: bit.ly/3HSxfBc #Yale #Pulitzer
ALT Image showing the cover of the book “G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century," the words "2023 Pulitzer Prize in Biography for 'G-Man'," and a photo of author Beverly Gage.
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Congratulations @beverlygage! G-MAN is the winner of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in Biography 🤩🎊🌟🎉 #Pulitzer @PulitzerPrizes
Start reading this groundbreaking biography of J. Edgar Hoover now: bit.ly/3FVeUmV
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ILLINOIS is 1st STATE to BAN BOOK BANS! Per HB 2789, state funding ($62 millions) will not be awarded to public or school libraries that remove books from circulation and do not “adopt the American Library Association’s Library Bill of Rights.” #bookban bookriot.com/illinois-to-bec…
