Everything about Polly Adler totally explained
Pearl "Polly" Adler (
April 16,
1900 -
June 11,
1962) was a
Russian-born
madam and author.
The oldest child of a large family, Polly Adler emigrated to America from
Yanow, Russia, near the
Polish border at the age of 14 just before
World War I. The war stopped her family from joining her. She worked in clothing factories and sporadically attended school and at the age of nineteen began to enjoy the company of theater people in
Manhattan and moved into the apartment of an actress and showgirl on
Riverside Drive,
New York.
She opened her first
bordello in 1920. She was under the protection of
Dutch Schultz and a friend of
Charles "Lucky" Luciano. In the early thirties, Polly was a star witness of the
Seabury Commission investigations and spent a few months in hiding in
Florida to avoid testifying. She refused to give up any
mob names when apprehended by the police. She survived by providing half of her income to her
underworld safety net. For over twenty years, Adler kept active by moving her brothel from apartment to apartment. She officially retired from
prostitution in 1944.
She went to college at the age of fifty and wrote a bestselling book, ghosted by Virginia Faulkner,
A House is Not a Home in 1953 and lived off the proceeds. She died in Los Angeles in 1962.
A House Is Not a Home was made into a movie in 1964 with
Shelley Winters as Adler.
The 1989 Perry Mason TV-movie called Musical Murder revolved around a faux-musical based on Polly Adler.
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