Mary Nolan, Ziegfeld Girl and Silent Movie Star: A Biography Including Her 1941 Memoir

Mary Nolan, also known as Imogene "Bubbles" Wilson, was a Ziegfeld Follies girl with a promising career that was destroyed by adultery, drugs, and physical abuse. This biography follows her life from Kentucky to her death in 1948, including a series of newspaper articles published in 1941 that were to be expanded into her memoir.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 163 pages
Publication date: 30 July 2019
Publisher: McFarland & Co Inc

Imogene "Bubbles" Wilson, also known as Mary Nolan (1905–1948), was the subject of two notorious court cases in the 1920s: one with Frank Tinney and the other with Eddie Mannix. 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 her humble beginnings in the backwoods of Kentucky to her untimely death in 1948. Included is a series of newspaper articles published in 1941 that were intended to be expanded into her memoir, which she was unable to complete before her passing.

Imogene "Bubbles" Wilson, also known as Mary Nolan (1905–1948), was the subject of two notorious court cases in the 1920s: one with Frank Tinney and the other with Eddie Mannix. 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 her humble beginnings in the backwoods of Kentucky to her untimely death in 1948. Included is a series of newspaper articles published in 1941 that were intended to be expanded into her memoir, which she was unable to complete before her passing.

Dimension: 254 x 178 x 8 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781476677170