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Broadway's Stone Woman: The Nose Surgery That Ended Marilyn Miller

Broadway's Stone Woman: The Nose Surgery That Ended Marilyn Miller

A public monument now looks down on Times Square, but the woman it immortalizes sold out theaters, inspired Jerome Kern and George Gershwin, and died after a nose operation at thirty-seven-so how did a life that rewrote Broadway end in a single surgical room? Which choices, losses, and medical failures turned Marilyn Miller from the highest-paid star of her age into a name remembered chiefly on a fourth-floor statue?

In this episode, we tell the life of Marilyn Miller from her first stage at age four through her Ziegfeld years…

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