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Barbara Cushing Mortimer Paley (July 5, 1915 – July 6, 1978) was an American magazine editor and socialite.Affectionately known as Babe throughout her life, Paley made notable contributions to the field of magazine editing.
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.
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?
The novel explores elements of Slim's colorful life, as well as her friendships with Babe Paley and Truman Capote. Although her remarkable sense of style is not a focus of the novel, much can be said about her contributions to classic, Americana dress. [12] In a particularly revealing scene, Benjamin imagines Keith raising a glass to Babe and ...
In 1934, Babe Paley was in a devastating car accident that "left her a mass of bruises, blemishes, and scars," per Leamer's book, and permanently knocked out her front teeth. Plastic surgery ...
In real life, Barbara "Babe" Paley passed away on July 6, 1978, at the age of 63. She died in her New York City apartment, four years after she was diagnosed with lung cancer. At the time of her ...
Albert Paley (born 1944), a modernist American metal sculptor; A. G. V. Paley (1903–1976), British military personnel; Andy Paley (born 1952), American songwriter; Babe Paley (1915–1978), American magazine editor and socialite; Dror Paley (born 1956), Canadian surgeon; Edward Graham Paley (1823–1895), English architect
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 ...