Marguerite McNulty

Marguerite McNulty (fl. c. 1920), who was regularly referred to in press as a “beauty”, was a U.S. stage actress. For decades in the early 20th century, she was cast in musical and other comedy productions on Broadway theatre, like the musical comedy Fifty Fifty, Ltd. (1919)[1] and the Broadway farce The High Hatters (1928).[2][3] McNulty was also cast in a single silent film, 1925’s Ermine and Rhinestones. The daughter of an Armenian immigrant, McNulty’s true name was Katya Minasian, which came to light when it was nationally reported in late 1925 that she had filed suit against the scion William Andrews Clark III, the third grandson of the then very recently late railroad and mining magnate, financier, and U.S. Senator William A. Clark of Montana. McNulty’s claim against the younger Clark was for his allegedly having breached his promise to marry her. For several years prior, McNulty had a romantic relationship with Clark III, which his family worked hard to, eventually, successfully discourage.[4] The enduring fame of “Marguerite McNulty” seems to arise solely from the wide national publicity given the lawsuit.[5]

References

  1. ↑ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0181416/otherworks, stage play Fifty Fifty Ltd. (1919)
  2. ↑ Hischack, Thomas S. Broadway Plays and Musicals © 2009 Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Co., Inc., p. 199 ISBN 978-0-7864-3448-0
  3. ↑ , Gilbert Gabriel, “Last Night’s First Night – ‘The High Hatters’, a Sore Tribulation in Three Acts, at the Klaw.”, New York Sun, Friday, May 11, 1928, with photograph of “Marguerite McNulty ingénue of the ‘High Hatters’ at the Klaw Theater” (McNulty is cast as Ellen Quarrie, the daughter of the play’s character Dr. Frederogas Quarrie, played by John Robb)
  4. ↑ , Staff, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, the largest circulating afternoon paper of its time in the United States, Tuesday November 24, 1925, with photograph of Ms. McNulty
  5. ↑ See the Milwaukee Sentinel, Nov. 27, 1925, p. 26 (Filing also reported in Logansport Pharos-Tribune, Logansport, Indiana, 12/1/1925, p. 3, the Post-Crescent , Appleton, Wisconsin, January 1, 1926, p. 8, the November 23, 1925, Sedalia Democrat, Sedalia, Missouri, p. 6, the Missouri Republican, Springfield, Missouri, 12/5/1925, p. 11, the Almanac Gleaner, Graham, North Carolina, 12/3/1925, p. 3 and many other periodicals throughout the U.S.)
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