Thy were part of Hollywood, the social scene, A-listers or their day, glamorous, international personalities. They may have started out as whores, but they became fabulous women with careers that endured for decades. The Gabor sisters actually had some talent as specific and limited as it may have been. And NO!, the Gabor sisters were not the Kardashians of their day. They were fabulous, so damn funny and dishy as hell, and Merv could draw it out of them, and the audience ate it up. Not that they were socialites, but Merv had a stable of good ol' broads who could make the show just by being there including Zsa Zsa, Eva Gabor, Pamela Mason, and Hermione Gingold. They weren't appearing on the Merv Griffin Show to sell a book or a movie, they were there as guests to entertain the audience-and that they did in spades no matter how many times they appeared.
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They were television personalities and the knew how to entertain.or "bring it" as the expression goes. Offsite Link by Anonymousīut, man those Gabor Sisters brought the goods when they appeared on the talk shows of the 60s and 70s. Also Luisa, Marchesa Casati Stampa di Soncino. They both get an nod for "great" socialites.
Astor (Caroline Webster "Lina" Schermerhorn Astor) was the social doyenne who allowed the new money in. Vanderbilt - and her ball - read about it). They were Grand Guignol great.Īlva Erskine Smith Vanderbilt Belmont was a great socialite who busted into the 400 in spectacular fashion (as Mrs. The social X-rays were great, too, though maybe not admirable by the general public. Kitty Hart was a pretty good socialite, too. Not a beauty, she could be very glamorous in her elder years. She was kind and fun and appreciated lots of different kinds of people - she was not a snob when she didn't need to be. She used her social clout to raise hundreds of millions of dollars for good, NYC causes - not elite causes, and she spent down the foundation she controlled. Brooke Astor did, and she did it very well. Dina didn't spend the majority of her time being a socialite.
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