The Last Heiresses of Gilded Age Families (Documentary)

[@OldMoneyDocumentaries]

NOTE: We had to repost this because one of "the estates" featured respectfully requested we change some things, so we obliged :) hopefully you enjoy this new updated version!

[@trudideswarteTrudes]

Thank you.

[@trudideswarteTrudes]

Gloria Vanderbilt , was a stand out from a number of the other heiresses.

[@TheresaSchleigh]

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[@TheresaSchleigh]

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[@WhanuiPuru]

Her mother, Gloria Snr, was too interested & craved fun and frolics & living off her wealthy daughter's money. Only when her priorities of motherhood was called into question that she was prepared to fight tooth& nail with her sister in law, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, for her rights which she lost. Gloria was quite the free spirit. You can be when you have a fortune. Lucky woman.😅

[@TeresaLeandro]

There’s a lot of truth in the saying “first generation makes it, second generation maintains it, third generation destroys it.”

[@paulalb-n2f]

That's very true, even today. The 3rd generation just can't keep it together. They lose the money, never considered getting advice from an older experienced member from earlier generations. And unlike Gloria Vanderbilt most never think about options to secure their inheritance. Too bad. Ancestors worked hard for the money they throw away.

[@Vitagirl]

This was of the best videos I’ve seen in this genre

[@OldMoneyDocumentaries]

Thanks, Vita!

[@PowerhouseCollectiveMedia]

That’s what happens when you don’t encourage future generations to build on what you established. If they’re spoiled too much, they get lazy, unmotivated, expect everyone to say yes to everything.

[@LIDIATALBOT-hu3ml]

I feel sorry for these girls. Even though I am lower income , I realize what others expect from you

[@japanjack62]

Nice, but don't kid yourself, they are still rich. they can't afford to build houses like those due to the high rate of taxes, but they still are rich...

[@adrianashilling2573]

Wealth inequality has only increased. Truly revolting how so little has changed in this alleged bastion of democracy (NOT!

[@titizroyal8669]

Thank you for your interesting documentation.

[@Lucinda-zr9su]

I have 2 pair of Gloria's jeans both gotten from a thrift shop for $6 each!!! They were practically brand new and they are, indeed, great jeans.

[@elizabethshepard.5393]

GV jeans were and are the best! I wore nothing else but GV jeans for over 15 yrs. I hv since branched out and wear other brands, I still wear(they later came in all kinds of colors) and love her jeans!

[@jbee1686]

I have a pair of GV shorts. Still wear em, lol

[@ConCarrington]

I loved them, they always fit perfect. And they weren't high priced.

[@marissaclaridge7627]

Thank you so much for the video...amazing and wonderful❤❤❤

[@OldMoneyDocumentaries]

You are so welcome!

[@LIDIATALBOT-hu3ml]

I never realised that Anderson Cooper was a Vanderbilt

[@pamelacox540]

Gloria’s mother spent money allotted for her daughter on her own pleasure. Gloria Morgan already had “limited visitation” w her daughter. What the mother was fighting for was continued unlimited access to her daughter’s money. Good to get the child out of that environment.

[@MymilanitalyBlogspot]

GV jeans were and are the best-fitting. Compliments!

[@gina-bg7kr]

I didn't like anything about those jeans.

[@Dreab69]

@@gina-bg7krI liked them but truthfully they were not made for black women or should I say any woman with curves

[@octogirl2046]

I loved them. I am short waisted and for some reason they were perfect. No curves:(

[@auapplemac1976]

While I thoroughly enjoyed the script and narration, I do have a quibble. It’s the use of commercial movie clips that jarred my attention. Why not use documentation of the actual time. There must be more photos and even film from the eras referred to. The use of color film and photos of actors portraying social events somehow reduces the documentary value of this presentation. The use of clips from “Pride and Prejudice” is particularly out of place since it took place many decades earlier. This comment may just reflect my quirk for authenticity, but aside from that, this was quite enjoyable. Thanks.

[@OldMoneyDocumentaries]

Thanks! Good suggestion

[@yankeecitygirl]

‘Old Money Values’ aka Greed, Lust, Exploitation, Parsimony

[@stephanebelizaire5063]

Not really .

[@maryjanealvarez5080]

There was philanthropy involved. Like the Duke Endowment to then Trinity University, so massive in terms of money such that the educational institution was renamed to Duke University (located in Durham, North Carolina).

[@SusanwWilliams]

Thanks for your video

[@1927su]

I think how these kids never asked to be born into such a public life. I do sure feel bad these kids.. so often they get everything they don’t need . I sure feel for Barron Trump’s childhood. May be follow his own path now that hes getting older Super rich & famous kids miss out on regular life.. I wouldn’t trade my bike riding, baseball playing, fort building mud pie making childhood anonymity for anything..

[@laurajones338]

Michelle Obama wanted to keep her daughters in their school, but she was talked out of it. Fortunately, they went to Sitwell Friends and thrived-despite all the death threats. They had pajama parties and friends-unlike Barron’s isolation at his school.

[@LightoftheMoon]

FLOTUS, Melania Trump, appears to have done an excellent job raising Barron. Also, from interviews, his choice is he will not be living at the Whitehouse of his father, President Trump 45 and 47th

[@PowerhouseCollectiveMedia]

Barbara Hutton; being married so many times, at some point, one has to question the SELF… she’s still the common denominator & no one knows what exactly she’s like behind closed doors that led to divorce after divorce after divorce … except for her son & those numerous husbands. Maybe she was controlling, insecure, jealous, manipulative, to the point of being destructive … or it was the other person. Regardless, none of these men married her for the sake of her money, because they all had quite a bit of their own.

[@LIDIATALBOT-hu3ml]

Why was she called ugly. She was a beautiful woman.

[@julietrask7497]

Who ?

[@richardjshene3970]

The downfalls of such families basically comes down to a few small human nature errors one the depart from their Founders original work ethics in financial strategies number two they felt guilty for the wealth that they have been brought up in in the isolation there's such wealth created play try to buy popularity and acceptance into a normal history

[@warriorprincessharmony]

The uselessness of the lives the women led was the problem. If they'd used that money to build new things, like some of the men did, or like some of the women, like Alva and Cornelia Vanderbilt were advocating... instead of living a life of stupid parties and balls and nonsense,.... Money can buy you happiness if you use it like a person with brains. You find happiness in a purposeful life.

[@carolmurray187]

I see many good documentaries but can’t see who the narrators are. I’d like to know.

[@annetteelliott1494]

I can't ever see myself in this kind of life......

[@stephanebelizaire5063]

Why Not ?

[@kathleenwhitley7114]

I'm sorry but I don't feel sorry for any of these ladies. A lot of a lower class people with no money went through a lot of the same issues. They didn't have money like they did to make things better, they had to suffer without. So I don't feel sorry that they have a little pain, And then they have to go into their big mansion with all their luxury to suffer. Oh my goodness, poor thing. Oh, please!

[@chinchillin6280]

😂

[@sasalor-t1d]

Having a sad life is more bearable when you are rich.

[@anitaschuloff2557]

I totally disagree. I would give up my entire nest egg if I could rid myself of clinical depression. One of the worst illnesses ever. You have no idea.

[@margarets3371]

Somewhat true

[@angelabluebird609]

No, there are many essentials of life that $ cannot buy. Heartbreak, abuse, illness and death are no respecters of persons.

[@rainbow-shine6946]

Death, taxes and change - you can rely on these 3 components.

[@stephanebelizaire5063]

Despite everything, Cheers and Bravo for them all. They showed Great Care, Compassion, and Friendship to the World .

[@mjrotondi5086]

You’re quite wrong. They were shallow , jealous and exclusive. They looked down on anyone not ultra wealthy. Horrible mothers, too.

[@stephanebelizaire5063]

@@mjrotondi5086 Hello, why You said so ?

[@johngeary5436]

What a horrible little man Capote was.

[@aramatoulayedabo3438]

I really admire heiresses line Doris Duke what an incredible woman

[@octogirl2046]

The best fitting pair of jeans I ever had.

[@richierichnumber1]

Wow when she was with Frank Sinatra, she at the epitome of her beauty, Glamorw, Sophisticated.

[@tillyt4054]

Non of these women were even close to “Beautifull” it was all expensive clothes , good photography and make-up …..and the occasional cosmetic surgery procedure

[@warriorprincessharmony]

My parents are asking me veey weird painful questions, so here I am a study. But this "Adapting old money values to a new age..." won't fly. There's nothing like old money values. It's old legacy snobbishness borrowed from Plantation owners and British Classist Society. Plantation mentality all round.

[@sarajanerocks]

Maybe look into the Church she attended & what they taught her about.

[@kaylee660]

Who? Vanderbilt?

[@sissyrayself7508]

I think the butler should have gotten Doris Dukes money.

[@lushuslegs]

No different to the ancient Nobility of the UK!

[@ladavidson9269]

I miss my GV jeans. Black & sexy!

[@carolmurray187]

This woman created the wonderful rose garden at the Whitehouse and Melanianiaomin had it dug up.

[@warriorprincessharmony]

I'm usually more interested in the fortune makers who made America Great. Like The Commodore himself.

[@Sharon-c6i]

Decadence is a fabric of this 🌹 ❤country

[@elwoodsweetapple3269]

Very well said.

[@IrishTexan09]

All through history. Try studying it.

[@patricialong5767]

I saw the movie of her life.

[@stephanebelizaire5063]

Not very True, more satirical than a real biography.

[@blindbookworm8019]

I have been very interested in the Gilded Age because of the TV show on HBO. I have even read and reviewed books about it on my channel. Some novels and some biographies. I love our history watching community and would like some suggestions about what to read.

[@1927su]

I think rich or poor, disfunction in families is disfunction, if she wasn’t wealthy nobody would know . I do remember many gals really liking GV jeans back in the day

[@susien7323]

Glad she didn’t see her beautiful 🥀 garden dug up by a immigrant

[@tracimckinstry8741]

Great documentary. Just goes to show that even money and prestige doesn't buy you happiness and that really does apply to the great women of the guilded age. Doesn't apply so much to the modern age where women have more of an unsightly reputation like Megan Markle who's gone out of her way to destroy the British monarchy and her own family and Kimberly Guilifoyle, who is actually not married to Donald Trump Jr. Maybe engaged but he still hasn't married her yet and I don't think he will.

[@bsrk3170]

Today Doris would’ve had her jaw and chin screwed up with cosmetic surgery ruining her distinctive and lovely look.

[@betsyogle8224]

Hutton got what she deserve. She was selfish. She divorced the actor because she wanted all the attention.

[@bar10ml44]

Ms. Hutton was not selfish at all but too generous and used by people. Attention was not her goal love and acceptance was what she craved. One of her biggest mistakes was her lavish coming out party when people were broke and starving. Carry Grant was one of the only ex husbands who visited her during her decline. You obviously have little background knowledge

[@bar10ml44]

Her aunt Marjorie Merrithweather Post was very astute financially and it's a pity she wasn't able to provide a more stabilising influence. The post legacy continues under General Foods.

[@tiomoidofangle102]

Everyone pity the poor heiresses. Nobody gives a shit about their brothers and cousins. Oh, the burden of spending all of that money.,,,

[@patricialaw7309]

They had no brothers hence heiress!

[@ronen160]

Barbara Hutton needed drugs to deal with her anxiety and stress.................................................................

[@alfredbonnabel7022]

Why have the snips of The Titanic in this documentary? It is an awful film and has nothing to do with her story.

[@bar10ml44]

The brief clip of the Titanic film was just a way of linking the lifestyle. Since wealth is the main subject it's apt because John Jacob Astor was the richest passenger on board and considered one of the world's richest men in the world. There are numerous historical clips included in this video so your petty complaining about the Titanic is not warranted

[@alfredbonnabel7022]

@bar10ml44 Thank you for sharing. Thank you for caring.

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[@ShelKim1991]

How dare you include anything Trump related!!! 🤬

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[@Fedinverse]

Are you actually calling the 19th century fortunes old money!