Peggy Dolan

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Peggy Dolan, from a 1920 publication

Peggy Dolan was an American dancer and actress in theater and vaudeville in the 1920s.

Dolan was from Newark, New Jersey. Her parents were Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hoffman Dolan. Her grandmother was Mrs. Thomas J. Dolan (née Isabel W. Hoffman) of Villanova, Pennsylvania. Peggy was a guest of former New York governor Alfred E. Smith at a birthday party for his son, Alfred E. Smith, Jr., in January 1930. The birthday dinner took place at the Patio Lamaze in Palm Beach, Florida. [citation needed]

Beauty pageant

She competed in a national beauty contest in Universal City in June 1915. Dolan was a third runner-up to Ruth M. Purcell of Washington, D.C., who was crowned the most beautiful girl in America from among sixty contestants.

Dancing career

Damage lawsuit

References

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