Peggy Hopkins Joyce (born Emma Marguerite Upton; May 26, 1893 – June 12, 1957) was an American actress, artist's model, columnist, dancer and socialite.

In addition to her performing career, Joyce was widely known for her flamboyant life, numerous engagements and affairs, six marriages, subsequent divorces, collections of diamonds and furs, and her lavish lifestyle [citation needed].

"[4] Using the settlement money she received from Archer, Joyce attended the private Chevy Chase School for Girls in Washington D.C., where she met Sherburne Hopkins.

Cole Porter and Irving Berlin both used her name in their lyrics, The New Yorker magazine ran cartoons mentioning her, and comedians of the time such as Will Rogers, Eddie Cantor and Frank Fay could get a laugh by invoking her reputation.

Due to her notoriety, Joyce caused a sensation with her performance in the 1923 installment of the annual Earl Carroll's Vanities.

Men, Marriage and Me advised, "True love was a heavy diamond bracelet, preferably one that arrived with its price tag intact."

In 1933, Joyce played herself in the ramshackle film, International House, which contained some good-natured joshing about her love life.

It is displayed at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. Recounting a meeting with Joyce in the late 1920s, Harpo Marx claimed that she was illiterate.

[citation needed] The column reported gossip about the hijinks and goings-on of public figures in both New York and London.

[8] On their wedding night, Peggy locked herself in the bathroom of the couple's hotel room and refused to come out until Joyce wrote her a check for $500,000.

[9][10] During the couple's well publicized divorce trial in 1921, testimony revealed that J. Stanley had given Peggy a reported $1.4 million in jewelry, a $300,000 home in Miami, furs, cars, and other properties during their marriage.

She was also allowed to keep all the jewelry she had acquired during the marriage, and was given stock in J. Stanley Joyce's lumber company that allotted her an annuity of $1,500 monthly for life.

[12] For the next few years, Joyce remained single but continued to have numerous affairs with such wealthy men as W. Averell Harriman, Prince Christopher of Greece and Denmark, Hiram Bloomingdale (son of Lyman G. Bloomingdale), Sayajirao Gaekwad III, Charlie Chaplin (who based part of his film A Woman of Paris on stories Joyce told him about her previous marriage), and film producer Irving Thalberg.

"[15] Nine days after Errázuriz's death, another attaché of the Chilean Legation linked to Joyce, Lt. Rivas Muntt, attempted suicide by overdosing on Veronal.

Cole Porter regularly referenced her: In songs by others: Zora Neale Hurston refers to Peggy Hopkins Joyce in her essay "How It Feels to Be Colored Me".

In the 1925 novel Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Anita Loos wrote "And all of we girls remember the time when he was in the Ritz for luncheon and he met a gentleman friend of his and the gentleman friend had Peggy Hopkins Joyce to luncheon and he introduced Peggy Hopkins Joyce to Mr. Spoffard and Mr. Spoffard turned on his heels and walked away.

Under the name of "Miss Boyce", she gives vapid sex lectures on the topic of "Why You *Should* Marry", and wiggles her torso a lot---it is meant to show the wild side of life in the 1920s before the great Stock Market Crash of 1929.

[25] In D.W. Griffith's final film, The Struggle (1931), which is about prohibition, characters are in a restaurant drinking beer and talking about current events.

Bud Clark (Preston Foster) is setting up John Allen (Edward G Robinson) with a blind date.

In the 1934 film Change of Heart, James Dunn rebuffs the advances of Ginger Rogers by saying, "Peggy Joyce is after me!

In the 1934 film Strictly Dynamite, Jimmy Durante sings a song called "I'm Putty In Your Hands" with Lupe Velez.

Its lyrics (written by Durante and Harold Adamson) include the lines "At every dinner party...I'm the ladies' choice!