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- The myth of "Molly" Brown has very little to do with the real-life of Margaret Tobin Brown, although it speaks to her spirit. Margaret was never known as "Molly Brown" during her lifetime: the name was an invention, but dates to well before the famous musical and film "The Unsinkable Molly Brown."
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During a popular scene of The Unsinkable Molly Brown movie. “Molly” works as a saloon girl in Leadville and sings “Belly Up to the Bar Boys!”. This is a well-known myth about “Molly,” however, Margaret Brown never worked in a saloon and was in fact an early supporter of the prohibition movement.
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- Introduction
- The Popular Press and Gene Fowler
- How Margaret Became Molly
- The Inconvenient Molly
- The Molly Myth
- Molly on Radio and TV
- Acknowledgements
- Sources
Although Kristen Iversen’s 1999 biography Molly Brown: Unraveling the Mythis the most thorough to date, documenting Margaret Brown’s commendable contributions to charitable, political and social causes, especially her support of women’s rights and children’s welfare, the book dismisses much of the flamboyant aspects of her personality which caused ...
When Margaret allegedly took charge of the lifeboat in which she was saved from the Titanic, winning for her the notoriety that would define her life, Fowler claimed she did so with a pistol while wearing only underwear, having distributed her outer clothing among the freezing women and children who were in the boat with her. “At times, when the mo...
And what of the Molly appellation? Fowler didn’t invent it, either. It also can be traced to tabloid journalism during Margaret’s life to at least the year 1929. Probably the first time the nickname was used was in another syndicated feature. Taking up half a page in newspapers’ magazine sections, it was titled “The Adventurous Widow Brown to Seek ...
While the studious, humanitarian Margaret Brown has been reclaimed, the flighty, sometimes boastful woman she also was has been largely suppressed. Perhaps it’s only fair following so many years of utter mistruths. The personality traits have yet to be completely melded in a book about this remarkable figure; to document the embarrassing gaffes tha...
Although newspapers started the legend of Mollie/Molly Brown, it was indeed Gene Fowler’s book Timberline that touched off a literary trend that led to the performing arts hits that would carry Margaret’s story to millions around the world. The sobriquet “The Unsinkable Mrs. Brown” had possibly been around since shortly after the Titanic disaster (...
For all the success of the book Timberline, as a motion picture nothing seemed to materialize. Eventually, Fowler wrote “The Unsinkable Mrs. Brown” as a radio play, but even that seemed to go nowhere. It wasn’t until 1942, nine years after the book was published and his story of Margaret Brown, in particular, became such a hit with the public, that...
I want to thank Gregg Jasper and Mike Poirier for their assistance in providing research material, including films, photographs and archival documents.
Bancroft, Caroline, The Unsinkable Mrs. Brown, Boulder: Johnson Books, 1963. Fowler, Gene, “The Unsinkable Mrs. Brown,” Coronet, October 1949, pp. 116-121. _____. Timberline, New York: Covici-Friede, 1933. Herndon, Booton, “The Heartbreaks of Society: The Unsinkable Mrs. Brown,” The American Weekly, April 17, 1949, pp. 6-7. Iversen, Kristen, Molly ...
- Randy Bryan Bigham
Dec 19, 2017 · Mainly, because the "Unsinkable Molly Brown" was actually a myth created for Hollywood — an eccentric character that was portrayed by Cloris Leachman, Debbie Reynolds, and, most notably, Kathy...
Oct 10, 2023 · These days there are several myths about the woman, which certain historians and writers have eagerly fed readers to make Margaret seem even more flamboyant and enigmatic than she really was. During her lifetime for instance, she was never, ever known as "The Unsinkable Molly Brown," confirms the Molly Brown House Museum in Denver.
- Jan Mackell Collins
Apr 2, 2014 · Sometimes referred to as "the Unsinkable Molly Brown," this survivor of the 1912 Titanic disaster has become the subject of many myths and legends throughout the years. Ironically, Brown was never...
Dec 6, 2021 · After she survived the Titanic sinking in 1912, Margaret “Molly” Brown shrugged off her good fortune. “Typical Brown luck,” she allegedly quipped. “We’re unsinkable.” By the time she died in 1932, she’d become known as the “Unsinkable Molly Brown” — and for good reason.
After her death in 1932, Brown was called "Molly Brown" and "The Unsinkable Mrs. Brown" by authors [3] [4] because she helped in the ship's evacuation, taking an oar herself in her lifeboat and urging the lifeboat crew to go back and save more passengers.
