Marguerite McNulty

Marguerite McNulty (fl. c. 1920), who was regularly referred to in press as a “beauty”, was a U.S. stage actress. For decades in the early 20th century, she was cast in musical and other comedy productions on Broadway theatre, like the musical comedy Fifty Fifty, Ltd. (1919) and the Broadway farce The High Hatters (1928). McNulty was also cast in a single silent film, 1925’s Ermine and Rhinestones. The daughter of an Armenian immigrant, McNulty’s true name was Katya Minasian, which came to light when it was nationally reported in late 1925 that she had filed suit against the scion William Andrews Clark III, the third grandson of the then very recently late railroad and mining magnate, financier, and U.S. Senator William A. Clark of Montana. McNulty’s claim against the younger Clark was for his allegedly having breached his promise to marry her. For several years prior, McNulty had a romantic relationship with Clark III, which his family worked hard to, eventually, successfully discourage. The enduring fame of “Marguerite McNulty” seems to arise solely from the wide national publicity given the lawsuit.