This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/wd3.2ACIB/951 Message Board Post: FORMER FILM STAR DIES IN OBSCURITY Hollywood, Nov 1 (UP) Mary Nolan, the hard luck girl who danced with Florenz Ziegfeld and rose to silent screen stardom, died yesterday in obscurity. The tiny blonde, who became the toast of Broadway as Imogene (Bubbles) Wilson, died in a modest bungalow court, apparently of a gallbladder ailment. She was 42. She was found by a roomer at the home belonging to her sister, Mrs. Mabel Randau. Dr Leo Gelfand pronounced her dead, but declined to sign the death certificate because he was not familiar with her condition. AUTOPSY ORDERED He said he treated her several weeks ago when she was hospitalized with a gallbladder ailment. An autopsy was ordered. Gelfand said he gave Miss Nolan a sedative when she complained of abdominal pains and left an additional supply of sedatives to take if the pain continued. Earlier this year Miss Nolan was found close to starvation in a rented room. She had just completed her memoirs, "Yesterday's Girl". She died when things seemed to be on the upgrade for her. Friends said she recently completed negotiations to sell her life story in both screen play and novel form. DOGGED BY HARD LUCK It was the final blow of hard luck that dogged her all her life. She was orphaned at the age of three. At 14 she went to New York, broke and friendless and began working with an artists model. It was illustrator James Montgomery Flagg who introduced her to Ziegfield. A few years later, silk hatted admirerers flocked to pay homage to "Ziegfield's Most Beautiful Girl ". Then the jinx struck again. She fell in love with Frank Tinney, one of Ziegfield's to comedians, and was named in the divorce suit brought by his wife. The scandal reuined Tinney's career and drove Bubbles from Broadway. She dyed her golden curls red, took the name of Mary Robertson and rose to stardom in German films. Hollywood soon bid for her services. SILENT SCREEN STAR Soon she was a silent screen star earning $3000 a week in suh films as "Sorrell and Son", "Shanghai Lady", "The Woman That God Forgot" and "X Marks the Spot". With things again looking up, she married Movie Executive Edward Minnix in the early 30's. The jinx struck again. She charged that Minix beat her, and asked $500,000 in a divorce suit. A short time later she was hurt seriously in an auto accident and not long after was listed in police records as a drug addict. She gradually dropped from public notice, and was in complete obscurity until she was found starving this year. Her sister said she was still married to Wallace McCreary of Berkeley, Calif, who shared part of her tempestuous Hollywood Career. Stockton Record, 11/01/1948