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Barbara Woolworth Hutton (November 14, 1912 – May 11, 1979) was an American debutante, socialite, heiress, and philanthropist.She was dubbed the "Poor Little Rich Girl"—first when she was given a lavish and expensive debutante ball in 1930 amid the Great Depression, and later due to a notoriously troubled private life.
Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story is a 1987 television biographical drama starring Farrah Fawcett. The film chronicles the life of Barbara Hutton, a wealthy but troubled American socialite. Released as both a television film and a miniseries, the film won a Golden Globe Award for Best Miniseries or Television Film.
Brenda Diana Duff Frazier was born on June 9, 1921, in Quebec, Canada. Her father, Frank Duff Frazier, came from a prosperous Boston family. Her mother, the former Brenda Germaine Henshaw Williams-Taylor, was the only daughter of Sir Frederick Williams-Taylor (a general manager of the Bank of Montreal who was knighted in 1910 and combined his middle name and birth surname into a new hyphenated ...
Barbara Hutton and husband Prince Alexis Mdivani How She Ended Up on the Edge of Bankruptcy Even though the young Hutton grew up wealthy, she grew to be a deeply insecure adult.
Sharon Osbourne is opening up about a painful face-lift experience. In an interview with Britain’s The Sunday Times, the 69-year-old TV personality, who has publicly addressed her plastic ...
Lance Reventlow (March 24, 1960 – October 30, 1963; divorced) Reventlow was the son of Barbara Hutton, heir to the F. W. Woolworth fortune. St. John received a settlement of $86,000. [40] Despite their divorce and subsequent remarriages, she refers to Reventlow as "my late husband" in interviews. [41]
In the show, actress Naomi Watts is stepping into the well-heeled shoes of the high-society it girl Barbara Cushing Mortimer Paley (i.e., queen bee in the Swans cohort).
Ashby's first role on television, in 1985, was on the ABC soap opera Loving, where he was the second actor to play the role of Curtis Alden.Soon after, he was cast as Lance Reventlow, the only son of Woolworth heiress Barbara Hutton (played by Farrah Fawcett) in the Golden Globe-winning miniseries Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story.