# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/polly-adler
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:22:53.580Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/polly-adler"
name: "Polly Adler"
slug: "polly-adler"
description: "Pearl \"Polly\" Adler was an American madam and author, best known for her work A House Is Not a Home, which was adapted into a film of the same name. In 2021, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Debby Applegate published a comprehensive account of Adler's life and times entitled Madam: The Biography of Polly Adler, Icon of the Jazz Age with Doubleday."
tagline: "American madam and author (1900–1962)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b5/Polly_Adler_1953.jpg"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1900-04-16"
deathDate: "1962-06-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.06
  momentum:             1.146822498173849
  historical:           8.553077333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%84%D9%8A_%D8%A3%D8%AF%D9%84%D8%B1"
    title: "بولي أدلر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%84%D9%89_%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%84%D8%B1"
    title: "بولى ادلر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%AA%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%BF_%E0%A6%85%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A1%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B0"
    title: "পলি অ্যাডলার"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polly_Adler_(Bordellbetreiberin)"
    title: "Polly Adler (Bordellbetreiberin)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polly_Adler"
    title: "Polly Adler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polly_Adler"
    title: "Polly Adler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polly_Adler"
    title: "Polly Adler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polly_Adler"
    title: "Polly Adler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Polly_Adler"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q542337"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump