Proficient and delightful, Molly O’Day is a rising star in Nineteen Twenties Hollywood. However when Molly’s teenage physique begins to vary and she will now not match into the gown she wore when she was 16, the studio desires nothing to do along with her. Because the scripts dry up and the cash runs out, Molly faces a troublesome however painfully acquainted selection.
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Books
Hollywood and the Rise of Bodily Tradition (2003) by Heather Addison.
Silent Stars Communicate: Interviews with Twelve Cinema Pioneers (2000) by Tony Villecco.
Articles
“Los Angeles, a Miracle Metropolis: L.A. within the Nineteen Twenties” by Danielle Ball, Los Angeles PublicLibrary (twenty eighth January 2026).
“Trying Like a Flapper Meant a Food plan of Celery and Cigarettes” by Anne Ewbank, Atlas Obscura (twentieth April 2018).
“The Display” by Mordaunt Corridor, The New York Instances (sixteenth August 1927).
“Beauty Surgical procedure on Trial: How the Dujarier Case Impacted its Apply and Construction in France in the course of the Interwar Interval” by Yannick Le Hénaff , in Social Historical past of Medication, Vol. 0, No. 0 (2017), pp. 1-22.
“Molly O’Day; Actress in ‘Our Gang,’ Movies” by Myrna Oliver, Los Angeles Instances (twenty first October 1998).
“Ravenous Again To Stardom: The unhappy story of Molly O’Day whose profession was blighted by ice cream and sweet”” by Lois Shirley, Photoplay (August 1928).
“Obituary: Molly O’Day” by Tom Vallance, The Unbiased (twenty eighth October 1998).
“Historical past’s weirdest fad diets” by Denise Winterman, BBC Information Journal (2nd January 2013).
“Straightforward Come, Straightforward Go in Films; Sisters Now Are Bankrupt”, Alburquerque Journal (tenth November 1930).
“Molly has personal ‘slogan’ as she plans comeback”, Mansfield Information Journal (twenty first January 1937).
“The Patent Leather-based Child”, New York Instances (14th August 1927).
“Surgeon Carved Off Mollie O’Day’s Fats — However It Got here Again”, San Antonio Mild, (twentieth January 1929).
“Molly O’Day, the Lady in ‘The Patent Leather-based Child’ to Play Via Wednesday on the Kettler Theatre”, The Palm Seaside Submit (4th March 1928).
“Actresses Rushes to Reduction of Moms in New Affiliation”, The Information (thirteenth January 1928).
“Wished — An Irish Moniker”, The File (18th April 1927).
“3 mos. for 25 lbs.”, Selection (October 1927).
“Sliced Hips And Legs Save Miss Molly O’Day”, Selection (fifth September 1928).
“86th Road”, Selection (4th June 1930).
“Molly O’Day”, Selection (seventh December 1998).
“Weight-Lowering Molly O’Day Is Dropping Out”, Selection (December 1928).
Podcasts
“152: Hollywood’s First Weight Loss Surgical procedure: Molly O’Day” by Megan Koester, You Should Keep in mind This (twenty first January 2020).
Web sites and Blogs
https://thebibliofile.substack.com/p/lux-soap-and-the-americanization
https://immortalephemera.com/wampas-baby-stars/
For the story of Mary Linnen, the important thing supply was Shelling out with the Fact: The Victims, the Drug Firms, and the Dramatic Story Behind the Battle Over Fen-Phen (2010) by Alicia Mundy. We additionally drew on a number of articles.
Articles
“The New Miracle Drug?” by Michael Lemonick, Time Journal (twenty third September 1996).
“How Fen-Phen, A Food plan ‘Miracle’, Rose and Fell” by Gina Kolata, The New York Instances (twenty third September 1996).
“A Little Vainness, a Lot of Company Greed: a Killer Combo” by Judy Mann, The Washington Submit (sixth June 2001).
“Fen-Phen Case Attorneys Say They’ll Reject Wyeth Supply” by Stephanie Saul, The New York Instances (seventeenth February 2005).
“AHP Settles Go well with Alleging Fen-Phen Demise“, Los Angeles Instances, (twenty eighth January 2000).
“Food plan medicine re-examined after girl’s loss of life”, The Minnesota Each day (seventh Could 1997).
“Fen/phen loss of life go well with settled”, United Press Worldwide (twenty eighth January 2000).
