In the Shadows: The Tales of MGM’s Fixer, Eddie Mannix

He Found a Keeper

Her name was Mariam Robertson, and she had previously worked as a Ziegfeld girl under the stage name Imogene “Bubbles” Wilson. Let’s just say that Bubbles had a pretty devastating backstory, and after she met Mannix, her life only got worse.

Imogene

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While working as a dancer for the Ziegfeld Follies in New York City, Bubbles began having an affair with married comedian Frank Tinney. But then, in 1924, Tinney discovered that Bubbles was cheating on him with another man. Outraged, he physically took his anger out on the dancer. She tried having the comedian arrested, but reports vary as to what happened next.

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