Once Upon a Time: A True Story

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Knopf, 1985 - Biography & Autobiography - 301 pages
The celebrity artist and designer recreates the glamour and terror of her childhood when she became a legend as the "poor little rich girl" during a notorious custody trial and vividly depicting the adult who loved and battle over her.

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All photographs not otherwise credited are from the authors private collection vii Gloria aged four Courtesy of Anne Hartwell 2 Baby Gloria and her ...
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Gloria and her mother
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The beautiful Twins Aunt Toto and Glorias mother Photo by Dorothy Wilding
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Once Upon a Time: A True Story
Gloria Vanderbilt
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Once Upon a Time: A True Story
Gloria Vanderbilt
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About the author (1985)

Heiress and socialite Gloria Vanderbilt was born in New York City, New York in February 1924. She studied art at the Art Students League of New York and successfully worked in oil, watercolor, and pastel. Vanderbilt designed for linens, china, glassware, and flatware, and in the 1970s she began licensing the use of her name in fashion lines of scarves, eyeglasses, perfume, and clothing. In 1979 her designer jeans debuted, and she later began her own company in New York. Vanderbilt has written books including "A Mother's Story" and several novels. Gloria Vanderbilt was married 4 times and had 4 sons. Her husband's included Pat DiCicco, Leopold Stokowski, Sidney Lumet and Wyatt Cooper. She lost 1 son, Carter Cooper, to suicide in 1988 at the age of 23. She claimed in an interview in 2012 that she thought about that tragedy every day. One of her memoirs told of her romances with Hollywood figures such as Sinatra, Marlon Brando, Gene Kelly and Howard Hughes (she was a teenager at the time), as well as various married men. In 2009 at age 85 she published an explicit erotic novel, "Obsession." Gloria Vanderbilt passed away on 06/17/19 at the age of 95.

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TitleOnce Upon a Time: A True Story
AuthorGloria Vanderbilt
Editionillustrated
PublisherKnopf, 1985
Original fromthe University of California
DigitizedMar 5, 2007
ISBN039454112X, 9780394541129
Length301 pages
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Biography & Autobiography / General
Biography & Autobiography / Rich & Famous
  
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