Debby Applegate Excerpt from Madam: The Biography of Polly Adler, Icon of the Jazz Age (Doubleday, 2021)   From Chapter 6 - "Thumbs...

In this interview by Gerald Howard for CUNY's Leon Levy Center for Biography, biographer Debby Applegate discusses her just-released boo...

Gay Olova, 1940. This is the 3rd & final chapter... Back to Part 2 As 1934 faded, the new year began with Gay Orlova completely...