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   Pearl "Polly" Adler (April 16, 1900 – June 9, 1962) was an American madam and author, best known for her work A House Is Not a Home, which was adapted into a film of the same name. In 2021, Pulitzer Prize –winning historian Debby Applegate published a comprehensive account of Adler's life and times entitled Madam: The Biography of Polly ...

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     Call her "Madam": The notorious Polly Adler

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3. www.historynet.com › the-roaring-20s-celebrityWho Was Polly Adler, the Celebrity Madame of the Roaring ...

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   Aug 23, 2022 · From the Roaring Twenties through World War II, the Russian-born entrepreneur ran a series of high-end Manhattan brothels with a charismatic pizzazz that made her a legend and earned her reams of praise from her establishment’s many famous customers.

4. www.imdb.com › title › tt1244677Polly Adler (TV Series 2008– ) - Full Cast & Crew - IMDb

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   Polly Adler (TV Series 2008– ) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.

5. www.nytimes.com › 2021/11/02 › booksThe Manhattan ‘Madam’ Who Hobnobbed With the City’s Elite

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   Nov 2, 2021 · A new biography by Debby Applegate recounts the story of Polly Adler, who arrived in America from Russia at 13 and became New York’s most successful brothel owner, befriending mobsters ...

6. www.imdb.com › title › tt1244677Polly Adler (TV Series 2008– ) - IMDb

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   Polly Adler: With Petra Morzé, Roland Koch, Nathalie Ann Köbli, Wolfgang Böck.

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   • Release Date: 2008-05-13

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   • Runtime: 50

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8. www.imdb.com › title › tt1244677Polly Adler (TV Series 2008– ) - Episode list - IMDb

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   Polly Adler (TV Series 2008– ) - Movies, TV, Celebs, and more... Menu. Movies. Release Calendar Top 250 Movies Most Popular Movies Browse Movies by Genre Top Box ...

9. debby-applegate.com › madam-the-biography-of-pollyMadam: The Biography of Polly Adler, Icon of the Jazz Age

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   Nick Montana was the vice entrepreneur who spotted Polly’s potential in 1920, when she was a young hustler and set her up in her first brothel at 620 West 115th in Manhattan “Smiling George” McManus was the professional gambler who spread Polly’s reputation among the high-rolling dice players and was accused of murdering Arnold ...

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    Who is Polly Adler?

    • Pearl to Polly, shtetl child to savvy New Yorker, Brooklyn corset factory girl to Manhattan’s most notorious brothel owner: “Madam: The Biography of Polly Adler, Icon of the Jazz Age,” by the Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Debby Applegate, tells a fast-paced tale of radical, willful transformation.

    The Manhattan ‘Madam’ Who Hobnobbed With the City’s Elite

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    Where is Polly Adler now?

    • "Polly Adler is in the prison ward of Bellevue Hospital, it became known yesterday, awaiting a hearing for the seventeenth time for maintaining a house of prostitution."— "Polly Adler Seized Again; III in Bellevue Hospital Awaiting Hearing for 17th Time". The New York Times.

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    How did Polly Adler become Madam?

    • Adler made the leap from dance hall hostess to madam when a pimp pal said she could use his pad as a setting for a bordello. “Polly was young, hip and funny,” Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Debby Applegate wrote in Madam, her superb recent biography.

    Who Was Polly Adler, the Celebrity Madame of the Roaring '20s? - Hist…

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    Did you know Polly Adler?

    • "I knew Polly Adler," sniped the famously combative writer John O'Hara; "she was a noisy bore, who looked like Mike Romanoff in drag" (a reference to the infamous Russian-born con man–turned–Hollywood restaurateur). She'd been snubbed in public more times than she could possibly remember, even if she had wanted to.

    Book excerpt: "Madam," the story of renowned brothel owner Polly Adler

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