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Lee Radziwiłł
Caroline Lee Radziwill (; March 3, 1933 – February 15, 2019), previously known as Lee Canfield and Lee Ross, was an American socialite, public relations executive, and interior designer. She was the younger sister of former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy and sister-in-law of President John F. Kennedy. Early life Caroline Lee Bouvier was born at Doctors Hospital in Yorkville, Manhattan, to stockbroker John Vernou Bouvier III and socialite Janet Norton Lee. She attended the Chapin School, in New York City, Potomac School in Washington, D.C., Miss Porter's School in Farmington, Connecticut, and pursued undergraduate studies at Sarah Lawrence College. In her birth announcement, and from her earliest years, she was known by her middle name "Lee" rather than "Caroline". Career Considered by "New York's society arbiters and editors" as the city's leading debutante, Radziwill had her "coming out" party in 1950. A full-page photograph of her in her gown was featured in the "debuta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Most Holy Trinity Catholic Cemetery
Most Holy Trinity Catholic Cemetery is a cemetery in East Hampton (town), New York, East Hampton, New York, that is the burial ground for the paternal ancestors and relatives of First Lady of the United States Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. The cemetery on Cedar Street north of the village is associated with Most Holy Trinity (formerly Saint Philomena) Catholic Church in East Hampton although it is a mile north of the church. Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, who was born nearby at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital, Southampton Hospital, spent her summers until age 10 at her grandfather's home called Lasata. She is buried not at Most Holy Trinity but next to her first husband, President John F. Kennedy, in Arlington National Cemetery. Notable burials * John Vernou Bouvier III (1891–1957) – Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis' father * John Vernou Bouvier Jr. (1865–1948) – Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis' paternal grandfather * Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale (1895–1977) – Jacqueline Kennedy Onas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doctors Hospital, Manhattan
Doctors Hospital (1929–2004) was a hospital located at 170 East End Avenue, between 87th and 88th Streets opposite Gracie Mansion in the Yorkville neighborhood of the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City. It served as the primary maternity hospital for uptown Manhattan births ( Manhattan General served as such for Lower Manhattan). It was also known as a "fashionable treatment center for the well-to-do." History The 14-floor hospital was founded in 1929 as Doctors Hospital. Patients included Huguette Clark, Michael Jackson, Jackie Gleason, Marilyn Monroe, Robert Mueller, Jacqueline Susann, James Thurber, Clare Boothe Luce, Werner Hegemann, Oveta Culp Hobby, Charna Eisenberg and Eugene O'Neill. Additional names treated or those that died at Doctors Hospital were Theodore Hardeen, also known as Hardeen, Houdini's brother and a magician in his own right, who died at the age of 69 after a routine surgery in 1945. Socialite Ann Woodward, wife of banking heir William Wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International Best Dressed Hall Of Fame List
The International Best Dressed Hall of Fame List was founded by fashionista Eleanor Lambert in 1940 as an attempt to boost the reputation of American fashion at the time. The American magazine '' Vanity Fair'' is currently in charge of the List after Lambert left the responsibility to "four friends at Vanity Fair" in 2002, a year before her death. International Best-Dressed List International Best Dressed Hall of Fame List Women * Duchess of Alba ( Cayetana Fitz-Stuart), socialite, President of the House of Alba Foundation; Seville (2011) * Lily Auchincloss, journalist (1980) * Stacey Bendet, creative director and C.E.O., Alice + Olivia; New York (2014) *Julia Rush Biddle, socialite; Philadelphia (1964) * Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge; Kensington Palace (2014) * Kitty Carlisle Hart, actress, fine-arts authority, former chairman of the New York State Council on the Arts, widow of playwright Moss Hart; New York and Palm Beach (1994). * Misty Copeland, ballerina (2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Truman Capote
Truman Garcia Capote ( ; born Truman Streckfus Persons; September 30, 1924 – August 25, 1984) was an American novelist, screenwriter, playwright, and actor. Several of his short stories, novels, and plays have been praised as literary classics, and he is regarded as one of the founders of New Journalism, along with Gay Talese, Hunter S. Thompson, Norman Mailer, Joan Didion, and Tom Wolfe. His work and his life story have been adapted into and have been the subject of more than 20 films and television productions. Capote had a troubled childhood caused by his parents' divorce, a long absence from his mother, and multiple moves. He was planning to become a writer by the time he was eight years old, and he honed his writing ability throughout his childhood. He began his professional career writing short stories. The critical success of "Miriam (short story), Miriam" (1945) attracted the attention of Random House publisher Bennett Cerf and resulted in a contract to write the novel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Rolling Stones American Tour 1972
The Rolling Stones American Tour 1972, also known as the "Stones Touring Party", shortened to S.T.P., was a much-publicized and much-written-about concert tour of the United States and Canada in June and July 1972 by the Rolling Stones. Constituting the band's first performances in the United States following the Altamont Free Concert in December 1969, critic Dave Marsh would later write that the tour was "part of rock and roll legend" and one of the "benchmarks of an era." Tour and difficulties The tour in part supported the group's '' Exile on Main St.'' album, which was released a few weeks earlier on 12 May. It was also part of a tour-America-every-three-years rotation that the group established in 1969 and maintained through 1981. On the first show of the tour, 3 June in Vancouver, British Columbia, 31 policemen were treated for injuries when more than 2,000 fans attempted to crash the Pacific Coliseum. In San Diego on 13 June, there were 60 arrests and 15 injured duri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones are an English Rock music, rock band formed in London in 1962. Active for over six decades, they are one of the most popular, influential, and enduring bands of the Album era, rock era. In the early 1960s, the band pioneered the gritty, rhythmically driven sound that came to define hard rock. Their first stable line-up consisted of vocalist Mick Jagger, guitarist Keith Richards, multi-instrumentalist Brian Jones, bassist Bill Wyman, and drummer Charlie Watts. During their early years, Jones was the primary leader. Andrew Loog Oldham became their manager in 1963 and encouraged them to write their own songs. The Jagger–Richards, Jagger–Richards partnership soon became the band's primary songwriting and creative force. Rooted in blues and early rock and roll, the Rolling Stones started out playing Cover version, covers and were at the forefront of the British Invasion in 1964, becoming identified with the youthful counterculture of the 1960s. They then f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horst P
Horst may refer to: Science * Horst (geology) In physical geography and geology, a horst is a raised fault block bounded by Fault (geology), normal faults. Horsts are typically found together with grabens. While a horst is lifted or remains stationary, the grabens on either side Subsidence, ..., a raised fault block bounded by normal faults or graben People * Horst (given name) * Horst (surname) * ter Horst, Dutch surname * van der Horst, Dutch surname Places Settlements Germany * Horst, Steinburg, a municipality in the district of Steinburg in Schleswig-Holstein * Horst, Lauenburg, a municipality in the district of Lauenburg in Schleswig-Holstein * Horst, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, a village and district in the municipality of Sundhagen, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern * , a district in the city of Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia * , a town in the municipality of Seevetal, Lower Saxony Netherlands * Horst aan de Maas, a municipality in the province of Limburg ** Horst ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cecil Beaton
Sir Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton (14 January 1904 – 18 January 1980) was a British fashion, portrait and war photographer, diarist, painter, and interior designer, as well as costume designer and set designer for stage and screen. His accolades include three Academy Awards and four Tony Awards. Early life and education Beaton was born on 14 January 1904 in Hampstead, north London, the son of Ernest Walter Hardy Beaton (1867–1936), a prosperous timber merchant, and his wife, Esther "Etty" Sisson (1872–1962). His grandfather, Walter Hardy Beaton (1841–1904), had founded the family business of "Beaton Brothers Timber Merchants and Agents", and his father followed into the business. Ernest Beaton was an amateur actor and met his wife, Cecil's mother Esther ("Etty") when playing the lead in a play. She was the daughter of a Cumbrian blacksmith named Joseph Sisson and had come to London to visit her married sister. Ernest and Etty Beaton had four children – Cecil; two daught ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lorenzo Mongiardino
Lorenzo "Renzo" Mongiardino (; 12 May 1916 – 16 January 1998) was an Italian architect, interior designer, and production designer. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction. Biography In 1936, Renzo Mongiardino moved from his native Genoa to Milan to study architecture; in 1942, he graduated from the Polytechnic University, together with Giò Ponti. Beginning in 1944, Mongiardino collaborated with the design magazine ''Domus'', writing many articles. During this period he also began his multifaceted career, focusing primarily on the creation of residential and theatre environments. In the early fifties, Mongiardino began to establish himself as an architect, working from his home and studio in central Milan, on the elegant Via Bianca Maria. Mongiardino was responsible for creating some of the most important and enchanting houses of the second half of twentieth century, created for an international and prestigious clientele of cultured coll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laura (1944 Film)
''Laura'' is a 1944 American film noir produced and directed by Otto Preminger. It stars Gene Tierney and Dana Andrews, along with Clifton Webb, Vincent Price, and Judith Anderson. The screenplay by Jay Dratler, Samuel Hoffenstein, and Betty Reinhardt is based on the 1943 novel '' Laura'' by Vera Caspary. ''Laura'' received five nominations for the Academy Awards, including for Best Director, winning for Best Black and White Cinematography. In 1999, ''Laura'' was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". The American Film Institute named it one of the 10 best mystery films of all time, and it also appears on Roger Ebert's "Great Movies" series. Plot New York City Police Department Detective Mark McPherson is investigating the murder of a young, beautiful, highly successful advertising executive, Laura Hunt, killed by a shotgun blast to the face jus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philadelphia Main Line
The Philadelphia Main Line, known simply as the Main Line, is an informally delineated historical and Social class in the United States, social region of suburban Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Lying along the former Pennsylvania Railroad's once prestigious Main Line (Pennsylvania Railroad), Main Line, it runs northwest from Center City, Philadelphia, Center City Philadelphia parallel to Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike, also known as U.S. Route 30 in Pennsylvania, U.S. Route 30. The railroad first connected the Main Line towns in the 19th century. They became home to sprawling Estate (land)#United States, country estates belonging to Philadelphia's wealthiest families, and over the decades became a bastion of "old money". The Main Line includes some of the wealthiest communities in the country, including Gladwyne, Pennsylvania, Gladwyne, Villanova, Pennsylvania, Villanova, Radnor, Pennsylvania, Radnor, Haverford, Pennsylvania, Haverford, and Merion, Pennsylvania, Merion. Tod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Philadelphia Story (play)
''The Philadelphia Story'' is a 1939 American comic play by Philip Barry. It tells the story of a socialite whose wedding plans are complicated by the simultaneous arrival of her ex-husband and an attractive journalist. Production The character of Tracy Lord was inspired by Helen Hope Montgomery Scott, a Philadelphia socialite known for her hijinks, who had married a friend of playwright Philip Barry. Barry wrote ''The Philadelphia Story'' specifically for Katharine Hepburn, who ended up not only starring in but also financially backing the play, forgoing a salary in return for a percentage of the play's profits. Produced by the Theatre Guild, ''The Philadelphia Story'' opened on March 28, 1939, at the Shubert Theatre in New York City, and closed on March 30, 1940. The three-act comedy was directed by Robert B. Sinclair, with lighting and scenery by Robert Edmond Jones. File:Philadelphia-Story-Stage-1.jpg, Katharine Hepburn File:Philadelphia-Story-Stage-2.jpg, Vera Allen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
