Talk:Mary Dugan

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The Trial of Mary Dugan
The novel was written by Wiliam Almon Wolff, published in 1928 under Doubleday, Doran & Company, INC. Garden City, New York. The novel consists of 35 chapters and deals with murder, sexual deviance, and other explicit themes for the time period.

The book was adapted for the sceen, The Trial of Mary Dugan (1941) starred *Laraine Day .... Mary Dugan *Robert Young .... Jimmy Blake *Tom Conway .... Edgar Wayne *Frieda Inescort .... Mrs. Wayne ..To name a few.

This is not nonsense. If you wish to check the validity of this novel and its description, please either purchase or borrow the novel from a local library or store. This novel was considered too explicit and far too deviant for the time it was published. Adapations have been made to dispense with the inappropriate material.

Once such adapation is described as follows:
 * In this well-executed courtroom drama, a Broadway chorine is accused of stabbing her wealthy boy friend to death. The girl is defended by her good friend. During the trial, the lawyer refrains from cross-examining the witnesses. This enrages the dancer's younger brother, who has just passed the bar exam. Her friend suddenly drops her case and allows her little brother to take over. In the end, it is discovered that the girl was a golddigger who used the money from her affairs to finance her brother's expensive education. This does not stop the younger brother from building his case and eventually proving her innocence. Thanks to him, the real killer is exposed and justice prevails. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

A university of Toronto adaptation was written by Lorrie Gilsten in the Classic Literature Department and was transformed into a play staged at Bader Theatre, U of T in 2004. The Adaptation recieved a mixed review but non the less was deemed a success.

I will be resotring the article, and expanding it later on today. If you have an issue with this, I invite you to consult me on my Talk page. I appreciate your candour in this situation, but I advise to in future, research your accusations before posting them. -- Andreas Thursday, 2007-02-08 T 10:09 UTC
 * My aplogies, the fact that a 1908 novel was claiming to feature a 1956 pop artist led me to believe it was nonsense, but you've cleared that up now. A suggestion though: Make sure wikilinks link to appropriate and not random people. The Kinslayer 10:13, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

I have read the actual play, and there are no references to "deviant" sexual behavior in the play. The only scandalous behavior concerns dancers who become "kept women" of wealthy married men. From looking on the web, these claims of sexual "deviance" seem as if they are designed to embarrass a living person named Mary Dugan. I wonder whether this entry should be deleted in its entirety, since the character's situation is described well in the entry for the play in which she appears. I haven't looked at the 2 film versions, or the novelization of the first film. The novelization was based on an MGM film, and is very unlikely to have been extravagantly "deviant". Oxford Companion to American Theatre lists plot here: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O149-TrialofMaryDuganThe.html Find summary of first movie here: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0020516/plotsummary Find summary of second movie here: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034311/#comment I read this version of the play: The Trial of Mary Dugan: A Melodrama of New York Life In Three Acts, by Bayard Veiller, published by Samuel French, New York and Hollywood, Copyright 1928 by Bayard Beiller, renewed 1955 by Marguerite Veiller. Took it out of Chicago Public Library, book# R0325544446. Jenright (talk) 23:47, 20 January 2010 (UTC)