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She was part of a famous family. Paley, who is played by Naomi Watts on the show, worked as an editor at Vogue for seven years and was a fixture on best dressed lists.Born Barbara Cushing in 1915 ...
After her divorce from Mortimer, Barbara received a settlement from a trust fund. In 1946, she met William "Pasha" Paley, who was estranged from his wife Dorothy Hart Hearst (1908–1998), the former wife of John Randolph Hearst. William Paley was wealthy and interested in the arts, and sought acceptance in New York's café society. Barbara's ...
The year of that divorce, Babe met television executive William Paley and the two wed in 1947. Both offered qualities that the other desperately needed. Babe, accustomed to the finer things in ...
Barbara "Babe" Paley was the youngest child of neurosurgeon surgeon Dr. Harvey Cushing and socialite Katharine Crowell Cushing. Her mother, according to Leamer's book, wished for one thing for her ...
After their divorce, Babe married William S. Paley, the longtime head of CBS. In 1947, [ 22 ] Mortimer remarried to Kathleen Lanier Harriman (1917–2011), [ 23 ] the daughter of W. Averell Harriman ( U.S. Ambassador to Russia and the U.K., a governor of New York and a U.S. Secretary of Commerce under President Harry S. Truman ) and a ...
All three Cushing sisters married into wealth and prominence: Her older sister, Mary "Minnie", married Vincent Astor, [5] the heir of a $200 million fortune, in 1940, and her younger sister Barbara "Babe" was married to Standard Oil heir Stanley Mortimer Jr., and later to CBS founder William S. Paley. Both of her sisters died of cancer within ...
Babe Paley, potrayed by Naomi Watts in Ryan Murphy's Feud: Capote vs. The Swans, was Capote's favorite. So, why did the writer betray the queen of midcentury New York High Society?
Burden is the daughter of socialite Babe Paley and her first husband, Stanley G. Mortimer Jr. (1913–1999), an heir to the Standard Oil fortune. [2] She is a descendant of the first chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, John Jay, and a granddaughter of Dr. Harvey Cushing, the "Father of American Neurosurgery" and Pulitzer Prize winning author.