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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 posthumously 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 ...
23 de ago. de 2022 · Learn about Polly Adler, the Russian-born entrepreneur who ran high-end brothels in Manhattan and befriended the rich and famous. From her humble beginnings to her rise to fame and fortune, she was a legend of the Prohibition era.
2 de nov. de 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 ...
17 de dez. de 2021 · Applegate’s new book, “Madam,” is another biography, of a very different subject: Polly Adler, who ran a brothel and had many famous friends during the Jazz Age in New York City. On this ...
12 de abr. de 2012 · Polly Adler was a notorious brothel keeper in New York who catered to the city's elite and survived Prohibition and corruption scandals. She wrote a memoir, A House Is Not a Home, that revealed her life story and became a bestseller.
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7 de nov. de 2021 · Polly Adler leaving a police van after being arrested in a raid, July 12, 1936, in New York City. N.Y. Daily News Archive via Getty Images. Applegate said, "The difference between Polly and...
9 de nov. de 2021 · And the woman was Polly Adler, Manhattan’s best-known and most successful madam. “There were plenty of other madams” in 1920s New York, Debby Applegate concedes in Madam: The Biography of Polly Adler, Icon of the Jazz Age, a rollicking account of a life lived in the fast lane, but none boasted Adler’s “combination of ...
