Polly Adler
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Pearl "Polly" Adler 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 App
Adler c. 1953
Dorothy Parker
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Dorothy Parker was an American poet, literary critic and writer of fiction. Based in New York, she was known for her caustic wisecracks, and eye for 20th-century urban foibles.
Polly Adler
…Harold Ross, George S. Kaufman (who had an account and paid for services rendered at the end of each month), Robert Benchley, Donald Ogden Stewart, Dorothy Parker (who would chat with Adler while her male friends partook of the girls' services), Milton Berle, John Garfield, New York City mayor Jimmy Walker, gossip…
Parker, c. 1910s–1920s
Cover of the first edition of Enough Rope (1926)
Plaque at Parker's birthplace