Debby Applegate

Historian, biographer and reluctant twitter convert, author of Madam: The Biography of Polly Adler, Icon of the Jazz Age (@Doubledaybooks 2021)

[Agatha Christie @agathachristie]

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

[Debby Applegate @Debby_Applegate]

And the original Hollywood #silentera #Sexsymbol at her peak... Happy Birthday #ThedaBara!

[Debby Applegate @Debby_Applegate]

#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.

[Debby Applegate @Debby_Applegate]

@HistNerdsUnited Thank you, thank you, thank you!!

[Debby Applegate @Debby_Applegate]

Thanks to Grace Beattie for the frank and frisky conversation about #Madam #PollyAdler on @wickedwomenthepodcast!
https://t.co/UvxfCaGJAC

[Debby Applegate @Debby_Applegate]

#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.

[Debby Applegate @Debby_Applegate]

#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.

[Noirchick In Old Hollywood @Noirchick1]

A little sly bit of trick-the-eye in the photo of Paulette Goddard - who was born this day, 6/2/1910.......
#BOTD

[Aurora @CitizenScreen]

Remembering Josephine Baker, born on June 3, 1906 #botd

[Carrie Rickey @CarrieRickey]

.@tcm_party If you're watching #SheDoneHomWrong, these are the platform shoes #MaeWest seats under those floor-length gowns. Gives her 5 extra inches.

[Debby Applegate @Debby_Applegate]

And the jump page...

[Debby Applegate @Debby_Applegate]

#OTD in #Irishgangster news - @NYDailyNews on the notorious Legs Diamond, "the human amunition dump" of #PollyAdler's #JazzAge Manhattan

[Debby Applegate @Debby_Applegate]

@Plathbiography @biographersintl I LOVE this picture! So very sad to miss the glorious occasion!

[Debby Applegate @Debby_Applegate]

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 https://t.co/eheu6UGtU7

[Beinecke Library @BeineckeLibrary]

Collection Box of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, 1834 https://t.co/0YbgvHrSTQ
From: Randolph Linsly Simpson African-American collection

[TCM @tcm]

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.

[TCM @tcm]

The William Powell Guide to Suave: The perfect martini as featured in THE THIN MAN ('34).

See it tonight at 8pm ET as continue our salute to our May Star of the Month.

[U.S. National Archives @USNatArchives]

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.

https://t.co/PmTjYtNLwQ

#AANHPI

[Yale University @Yale]

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: https://t.co/9dSVcetBXA #Yale #Pulitzer

[Viking Books @VikingBooks]

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: https://t.co/ngR228BSIT