Anne Nichols Playwright "Abie's Irish Rose"

Anne Nichols, Playwright "Abie's Irish Rose" and several other plays and movies. She was a cousin of mine (my grandfather's first cousin). Her play "Abie's Irish Rose" was panned by critics. Anne used some of her own money, borrowed money from gangster, Arnold Rothstein (the man who fixed the 1919 World Series) and took loans against her home to keep her play afloat until it caught on. Her play became a huge Broadway hit and it made her millions of dollars. Before play writing she was an actress in old silent Western movies in which she rode horses and lived pretty dangerously. Some of the silent movies she acted in were:
The Immortal Alamo (1910) as Anna Nichols
In The Hot Lands (1911) as Nell's mother
Return of Ta-Wa-Wa (1910) as Rose Leigh
A Woman In the Case (1910) Willis Johnson
A Postal Substitute (1910) Mrs. Benson
The Paleface Princess (1910) Captain Keen's sister