Peggy Hopkins Joyce and Charlie Chaplin (Fake News: Fact-Checking Hollywood Babylon, Episode 8)
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Peggy Hopkins Joye - A New York City Celebrity
Peggy hopkins joye emerged as a new york city celebrity around the same time as the term gold digger entered the popular lexicon. The media covered her in insane and mundane detail, the focus for headline writers and gossip readers was peggy's habit of acquiring and disposing of rich husbands over and over and over again. In the early 19 twenties, there was a push and pull between breaks from tradition, especially in terms of gender and sex, and a desire to reclaim a moral order lost. This whole spirit came crashing down with the stock market in 19 29, and soon thereafter, so did Peggy.
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