LITTLE GLORIA
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LITTLE GLORIA
This is a story of money, glamour, and scandal (on the highest level); a story of American society and of European royalty; a story of family strife exploding into one of the most dramatic and publicized court battles of the century-the battle for a solemn ten-year-old child, "little Gloria" Vanderbilt, who in 1934 was the object of the epic custody suit between her mother, the beautiful and penniless Vanderbilt widow, and her aunt, the famous Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, whose $78 million could buy her anything she wanted.
And what she wanted was "little Gloria." The leading characters: Gloria Morgan, who was one of the fabled Morgan Twins (invented by society reporter "Cholly" Knickerbocker as the quintessential Café Society beauties) and who, as a shy, stammering eighteen-year-old, living on nothing a year, did what she was raised to do, becoming the wife of .
And what she wanted was "little Gloria." The leading characters: Gloria Morgan, who was one of the fabled Morgan Twins (invented by society reporter "Cholly" Knickerbocker as the quintessential Café Society beauties) and who, as a shy, stammering eighteen-year-old, living on nothing a year, did what she was raised to do, becoming the wife of .
This is a story of money, glamour, and scandal (on the highest level); a story of American society and of European royalty; a story of family strife exploding into one of the most dramatic and publicized court battles of the century-the battle for a solemn ten-year-old child, "little Gloria" Vanderbilt, who in 1934 was the object of the epic custody suit between her mother, the beautiful and penniless Vanderbilt widow, and her aunt, the famous Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, whose $78 million could buy her anything she wanted.
And what she wanted was "little Gloria." The leading characters: Gloria Morgan, who was one of the fabled Morgan Twins (invented by society reporter "Cholly" Knickerbocker as the quintessential Café Society beauties) and who, as a shy, stammering eighteen-year-old, living on nothing a year, did what she was raised to do, becoming the wife of .
And what she wanted was "little Gloria." The leading characters: Gloria Morgan, who was one of the fabled Morgan Twins (invented by society reporter "Cholly" Knickerbocker as the quintessential Café Society beauties) and who, as a shy, stammering eighteen-year-old, living on nothing a year, did what she was raised to do, becoming the wife of .
