Gloria Laura Vanderbilt

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Gloria Vanderbilt in 1958. Photo by Carl Van Vechten

Gloria Laura Vanderbilt (born February 20, 1924 in New York City ; † June 17, 2019 there ) was an American actress , painter , designer and author .

Life

Gloria Laura Vanderbilt at the age of eight with her mother

Gloria Laura was the daughter of the railway heir Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt (1880–1925), son of Cornelius Vanderbilt II (1843–1899) and Alice Claypoole Gwynne (1852–1934) and great-great-granddaughter of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt (1794–1877). Her mother was Gloria Morgan-Vanderbilt (1904-1965), daughter of Harry Hays Morgan and Laura Delphine Kilpatrick. Her aunt, Thelma Furness, Viscountess Furness (1904–1970), was her mother's twin sister and a lover of King Edward VIII of Great Britain . She also introduced her friend, Wallis Simpson , to the Duke of Windsor .

After her father's death due to alcohol abuse Gloria Vanderbilt was just 15 months old, heiress to a four million dollar trust fund. Her mother took over the guardianship. They later lived in Paris and London , where their mother and aunt Thelma were high society . Because of Gloria Morgan's way of life and her changing love affairs, including a lesbian relationship with Nadja Mountbatten, Marchioness of Milford Haven , her aunt Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (1875-1942) sought custody of her niece. In 1934 her mother and her aunt Gertrude were at the center of a high-profile court battle over the custody of the then 10-year-old Gloria Laura Vanderbilt. The court agreed with her aunt, and she grew up in Newport and Greenwich Village surrounded by cousins ​​her own age. She had a much older half-sister, Mary Cathleen Vanderbilt (1904-1944), from the first marriage of her father Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt with Cathleen Gebhardt Neilson (1882-1927).

Gloria Laura attended Miss Porter's School , a college preparatory school for girls, in Farmington . She later studied at the Art Students League of New York . After gaining control of her inheritance, she sporadically supported her mother. Her mother died penniless in Hollywood and was buried in the Culver City cemetery. In addition to painting, she designed many products, including clothing, china, and perfume. In the 1970s she successfully marketed the Gloria Vanderbilt designer jeans - her trademark is a white swan . In 2009 she published the BDSM novel Obsession. An Erotic Tale (Ecco, New York). Her son from her marriage to Wyatt Emory Cooper is CNN presenter Anderson Cooper .

Marriages and offspring

Gloria Laura Vanderbilt had several relationships, including Howard Hughes (1905–1976), Frank Sinatra (1915–1998), Marlon Brando (1924–2004) and Gordon Parks (1912–2006).

watch TV

  • 1981: Love Boat (TV Series): Gloria Vanderbilt in:

- Model Marriage, A / This Year's Model / Original Sin / Vogue Rogue / Too Clothes for Comfort: Part 2 (1981) ... Gloria Vanderbilt - A Model Marriage / This Year's Model / Original Sin / Vogue Rogue / Too Clothes for Comfort : Part 1 (1981)

  • 1963: Tonight, Dick Powell! (TV Series)

Connie Carmichael - Tissue of Hate (1963) ... Connie Carmichael

  • 1960: Shirley Temple's Storybook (TV Series)

Alice Kipling - The Black Sheep (1960) ... Alice Kipling

  • 1960: Adventures in Paradise (TV Series)

Judith - Judith (1960) ... Judith

  • 1959: The United States Steel Hour (TV Series)

Myra Kent / Marya Alexandrovna - Seed of Guilt (1959) ... Myra Kent - Family Happiness (1959) ... Marya Alexandrovna

  • 1958: Playhouse 90 (TV Series)

Elsie - The Time of Your Life (1958) ... Elsie

  • 1958: Kraft Television Theater (TV Series)

Girl - Dog in a Bus Tunnel (1958) ... Girl

  • 1957: Studio One (TV Series) as Elizabeth Alexander

- No Deadly Medicine: Part 2 (1957) ... Elizabeth Alexander

- No Deadly Medicine: Part 1 (1957) ... Elizabeth Alexander

Works

  • Love poems. Illustrated by Ann Bridges. World Pub. Co., Cleveland [1955].
  • Gloria Vanderbilt book of collage. With Alfred Allan Lewis. Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York [1970]. (Reprints: 1978, 1981, ISBN 0-442-25403-2 ).
  • with Phyllis Hingston Roderick: Gloria Vanderbilt designs for your home. Simon and Schuster, New York 1977, ISBN 0-671-22637-1 .
  • Woman to woman. Doubleday, Garden City, NY 1979, ISBN 0-385-13645-5 .
  • Once upon a time: a true story. Knopf, New York 1985, ISBN 0-394-54112-X .
  • Black knight, white knight. Knopf, New York 1987, ISBN 0-394-54412-9 .
  • Never say good-bye: a novel. Knopf, New York 1989, ISBN 0-394-57155-X .
  • The memory book of Starr Faithfull: a novel. 1994. (German: I'm only telling you: the shocking diary of Starr Faithfull. From the American by Barbara Ostrop. BLT, [Bergisch Gladbach] 1998, ISBN 3-404-92005-8 . - Also as: The turned away side of the Life. 1995).
  • A mother's story. Knopf, New York 1996, ISBN 0-679-45052-1 .
  • It Seemed Important at the Time - A Romance Memoir. Simon & Schuster, New York 2004. (German: At that time all this seemed to be important - The men of my life. From the American by Andrea Stumpf. Schirmer / Mosel, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-8296-0516-8 )
  • Obsession: an erotic tale. Ecco / HarperCollins, New York 2009, ISBN 978-0-06-173489-2 . (German: The queen bee: Roman of a desire. From the American by Teja Schwaner. Kiepenheuer, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-378-00698-0 ).

literature

Web links

 Wikinews: Gloria Vanderbilt, 95, died  - News
Commons : Gloria Vanderbilt  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ [1]
  2. ↑ About the 1934 Gloria Vanderbilt trial - a trial of the century. (English, accessed July 1, 2010)
  3. ↑ Klaus Brinkbäumer : Sex and the Altersheim , Spiegel Online, June 29, 2009.
  4. ↑ Anderson Cooper Will Not Receive an Inheritance From Mom Gloria Vanderbilt
personal data
SURNAME Vanderbilt, Gloria Laura
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vanderbilt, Gloria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American actress, painter, designer and author
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City , New York
DATE OF DEATH 17th June 2019
Place of death New York City , New York