bill to The Wilma Gowns, Inc. for $405.87. At the time of her arrest, she was staying at a "cheap rooming house not far from Times Square." While in jail, she was transferred to the psychiatric ward at Bellevue Hospital. Upon her release, Nolan told reporters that she was sent to Bellevue because the shock of her arrest caused her "severe nervous strain" which required hospitalization. After her release from Bellevue, she returned to performing in nightclubs. In July 1937, the Actors Fund of America sent her to the Brunswick Home in Amityville, New York for psychiatric treatment. She was transferred from the Brunswick Home in October 1937 after overdosing on sedatives. She remained hospitalized for a year. Upon her release in 1939, she returned to Hollywood and changed her name to Mary Wilson. She moved to a bungalow court which she later managed to earn money. In 1941, she sold her life story to The American Weekly, serialized under the title "Confessions of a Follies Girl", and appeared in several issues. In Spring 1948, she was hospitalized for malnutrition and was treated for a gall bladder disorder. Shortly before her death, she began working on her memoirs, titled Yesterday's Girl, with the help of writer John Preston. Death On October 31, 1948, Nolan was found dead in her Hollywood apartment at the age of 45. An autopsy later determined that Nolan had died of an overdose of Seconal. Her death is listed as "accidental or suicide". Her funeral was held on November 4 at the Utter-McKinley & Strother Hollywood chapel in Hollywood. Nolan was buried at Hollywood Forever Cemetery. Among Nolan's few possessions was an antique piano once owned by Rudolph Valentino. It was sold in an estate sale. Filmography Footnotes References External links Mary Nolan at Virtual History 1902 births 1948 deaths 20th-century American actresses 20th-century American singers Actresses from Louisville, Kentucky Actresses from Missouri American artists' models American expatriates in Germany American female dancers American female models American film actresses American musical theatre actresses American silent film actresses American stage actresses Burials at Hollywood Forever Cemetery Cabaret singers Drug-related deaths in California Barbiturates-related deaths Vaudeville performers Ziegfeld girls 20th-century American women singers 20th-century American dancers 1948 suicides