The Remarkable Story of Slim Keith. The California Golden Girl.
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- Immerse yourself in the captivating tale of Nancy “Slim” Keith, a trailblazing icon of post-World War II America, in our latest historical deep dive. As the FX series 'Feud: Truman Capote vs. The Swans' continues to enchant viewers, we turn the spotlight on Slim Keith, an overlooked yet pivotal figure in this enthralling saga.
Our video delves into the life of Slim Keith, who defined the California girl archetype with her effortless charm and uniquely American style. From her dramatic childhood marked by tragedy and familial strife, to her rise as a celebrated socialite, Slim's story is one of resilience and self-creation.
We explore her influence on Hollywood, not through the silver screen, but through her marriage to Howard Hawks, and her connections to legends like Clark Gable and Ernest Hemingway. Slim's life was a whirlwind of luxury, ambition, and romance, intertwining with the lives of the era's most iconic figures.
Witness Slim's complex relationships within the glittering world of high society, including her ties with Babe Paley and her eventual fall-out with Truman Capote. The betrayal and revelations in Capote's 'La Côte Basque 1965' not only marked the end of friendships but also a shift in the landscape of New York's elite.
Join us as we uncover the untold story of Slim Keith, a woman of grit and glamour, whose life epitomizes the dramatic shift in women's roles and societal norms during the mid-20th century. This narrative is not just about a person, but about an era of transformation and the unspoken truths behind the public facades.
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They aren't called the idle rich for nothing.
What a wasted life!!! she surely wasn't remarkable, she did nothing to deserve that mention.
Did anyone believe in fidelity in those days?
How could they live with themselves.
Hollywood goofballs ! these people were just as bad as the trash celebrities we have today !!!
@jstone247 From what I've read, people all through the ages were always more enamored of the idea of fidelity than actually practicing it. Fidelity has always been for someone else.
How about their children?! None of the swans were active mothers. Have them and leave them or turn them over to nannies.
You aren't wrong, but Slim and her daughter grew close as her daughter got older. Her daughter actually turned out to have a really successful life outside of the limelight. I think though the father's were worse, it is not as if HH, or BP were doing much with their children either. Must have been a lot of lonely childhoods really.
@@annamossity8879 One cannot make blanket statements about the fate of children raised by nannies. Just as with mothers, some nannies are very good, some are awful, and most fall somewhere in between. Winston Churchill, along with probably all of his peers of that era, was the son of socialite Jennie Jerome Churchill, was raised by a nanny and seems to have loved both his mother and his nanny dearly.
Selfish, superficial, narcissist. Not remarkable at all.
News flash: when you’re tall, blond, and skinny the world is yours! Yes, even if you come from nothing! Ask any super model!
I’m short and always struggled to stay thin. I really had to work very hard to become the remarkable woman I’m today!
Thanks for sharing!!
Not true. Coming from a tall blonde person
@@dejah2553 I agree.
I was 5’9’ at age 15. Talk about feeling self conscious. Taller than most of the middle school boys.
@@jamieluce5808 That is hard to deal with; people can be so cruel. Slim was also mocked in school but I am sure those same boys regretted it years later.
I’m sorry, after watching vids of each of the swans I don’t think any of them were remarkable. Beautiful maybe but nothing remarkable about self centered, narcissistic women. I feel bad for all of their children.
Even not so beautiful...
@@MilosBrajkovic-rc3ik This kind of women were an American phenomenon and I think there's nothing like them around any longer which is a good thing. They were vain, superficial and most of them rubbish parents.
agree...style but no substance
Women back then didn't have much to do--just socialize and have affairs.
Nothing remarkable about her! It's all about money.
The kind of woman I would run from as fast as I could!😳
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Agreed. All the swans!
Surely it’s the other way around. Let’s see! Who are you? But I bet you know the names of “The Swans” that if you were an actual member of polite society you’d already know who, what, why, etc instead of this watered down and inaccurate display of historical fiction+pure fantasy. He just wanted to be 1 of the “girls!” Can you blame him?!His idea of the fairer sex he learned hanging out w/Harper Lee constantly. She just screams “Celibate…not by choice!”
@roadrunner381 No worries on that front, you wouldn’t get within ten miles of a woman like her in your wildest dreams 😂
This video has lots of info I didnt know--thank you.
Thank you
Very good never heard of her❤❤❤❤❤
Thanks for the watch
Watch Feud: Capote vs The Swans
Well what about her child? How did that go?
@@RideoutMr She is still alive at 78, graduated from UCLA, worked for Perry Ellis, and was a successful interior designer for many years; designing for many people including Candice Bergen, Tom Brokaw, and Diane Sawyer. She speaks very positively about her mom, especially her sense of humor, she just decided to lead a different life, she didn't like the party scene, and did her own thing. She is very down to Earth.
@@MythicMindScape21 Thanks...cheers fr Italy!!!
I don't see anything remarkable other than travelling and partying all the time, having the means to do so! Selfish
OK, right? Thank you!
I'd be bored to death.
Never heard of her
Me either. But from what they just presented, I wouldn’t have wanted a husband around her. 😏
She was the original California “It Girl” in the 30’s and 40’s, who knew everyone and lived a celebrated (and sometimes tumultuous) life. One of Howard Hawks most famous screen characters was based on Slim. She’s before my time, but she was the real deal IMO. Diane Lane recently played her in the recent series, Feud.
@@tracyspaulding6705she was Karen’s grandma
This was a good profile of her, of course after watching The Swans I was interested. Tgey certainly got around in Hollywood back in the day, probably still happening. 👍👍👍
Fascinating story! Thank you. I’m just wondering what happened with her daughter? Who reared her?
She split time with her father and mother and was raised by a nanny in her early years, then spent most of her time with Slim. Slim wanted her to be a society girl, but she very much wanted to do her own thing. She was an outstanding student, attended UCLA, then worked for Perry Ellis, before starting her own interior design firm which was very successful. She is still alive now, at 78 and seems happy and content with life, thankful for the chances she was given, and is quite humble and down to Earth.
@@MythicMindScape21 How kind of you to respond so quickly. I appreciate it! 😄
@@MythicMindScape21 When did Silim died? She was a bad mother but she was a good and loyal daughter how strange
A remarkable woman? Born beautiful into a rich family. Marrying for money. Having affairs with married men. Seemingly not really interested in being a mother to her children. And pretty much, it seems, only interested in her own needs. Hmmm…not my definition of remarkable.
There are many men who are fascinating even if they have mistresses & don't love their children. I don't know how wealthy her father was, he didn't try to bribe her wit money, just a pony.
My thoughts too. I doubt I’d ever describe her as “remarkable “ considering she abandoned her daughter at a month old to go party and travel with other men in NYC and other locations. This video described her as rather self-centered and egotistical. She chose married men whom she later married only to discover they would cheat on her as well. But then she doesn’t sound like the innocent betrayed wife either. Did she ever find happiness or even contentment? Certainly not as a wife or mother. Remarkable? No. Sad and selfish, more likely.
I would be ashamed if she were my daughter and she was not attractive.
Nor do I find her beautiful. Just tall, slim and blond with an average face.
For perhaps another view of her, read 'Haywire' by Brooke Hayward. Hayward loved her stepmother and clearly preferred her to the stepmother who replaced her, Pamela Churchill.
Fascinating life, though tainted with scandals! I was a professional fashion illustrator in NYC during Truman's Black and White Ball at the Plaza and read a lot about his "swans", but I've never heard his last name pronounced the way you pronounce it! I've always heard it pronounced Ca-potee, phonetically! Slim was a real beauty, the prototype of Lauren Bacall. Yet terrible to abandon one's child to travel and go party! smdh May they rest in peace~
Very good wonderful story !
Yes, she stayed true to HERSELF. And ignored her only child. Selfish and self-serving. Not to be admired.
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where did you get the idea she ignored her only child? have read a biography and autobiography of Slim Keith and she seems to have had a close relationship with her daughter Kitty.
@@amppma7302 Shortly after the birth of her daughter Kitty Hawks, Slim moved to Havana to stay with Ernest Hemingway. Does that sound like a good mother to you? She left her baby behind!!!
@@maclanty5324you must be as wealthy as slim to absorb Biden's America...must be nice
Thank you... ❤
You're welcome 😊
One of Leland Hayward’s daughters with Margaret Sullavan, Brooke Hayward, wrote an interesting memoir. She liked Slim as a stepmother, but hated Pamela.
True, she speaks very negatively of Pamela in her biography. 'Haywire'
Sorry but she’s not remarkable to me
What did she actually do for a job? What did you actually do that contributed to society?
Seems like she was just very good at having affairs with married men. Men that were much older and obviously rich. Why did she have a child with her husband when the marriage was so over to the point where he was obviously having affairs with other women? Alimony by any chance? Why did she abandon the baby (that was only months old) and then go to New York and hang out with her party friends when she had this little baby?
Sorry but I’m starting to believe that Truman Capote was probably very right about her
I found the story interesting. For me it's interesting how people and especially women lived back then and their different lives, even if I don't agree with her choices. It's still a good story. Not having a go, but what could women really do in the 1930s or 40s? And a lot of pregnancies at that time were accidental, hard to put all the blame on women here. Life was a lot different.
Even when I was a young adult in the 60s the classifieds were divided between male and female. Women did not have many options. Hence one reason the hippy revolution took hold. No women were head of corporations or many managers. The advent of IT helped change that. Women couldn't buy a house, no credit cards etc without a husband or a man cosigning loans. It was really bad how women were treated.
@@annettepora8091 True, people kind of forget how it was back then, so hard to judge women by the standards of today. Really the best option for a girl in those days was marrying well, and that's kind of what their parents pushed them in to. There were even classes on how to be a good wife in schools.
Sorry, but I agree with the original post. I find nothing remarkable about the swans. I’d say Capote was spot on. I’ve met many actual remarkable women of the age and they were truly accomplished.
@@annamossity8879 Fair enough to me the word remarkable means worthy of attention, I found their lives interesting. Is she Marie Curie, or did she split the atom? No. But she led an interesting life. And I was personally interested in their stories. Remarkable and accomplished don't mean the same thing to me.
Why are the commenters so scathingly negative? This is non-fiction and these women are all products of their time and western culture. They were what our magazines and society desired fed on. It is not as if Taylor Swift is so remarkable.
Good point.
I agree with you. Most people live boring uneventful lives. These historical women were true to themselves despite the cookie cutter climate of their times. They also are HONEST about what they learned from living their chosen lifestyles, that benefit modern women who may be leaning towards similar lifestyles. They judge themselves publicly, so that we can make more careful decisions privately.
So many harsh comments on here. 😲. Many people don’t understand the impact a traumatic childhood has on a person. Slim did pretty well for herself and seemed to overcome many emotional and abandonment issues from childhood. Good for her for loving her mother.
Great comment. Thanks
I agree completely with you. All of her three husbands were EXACTLY like her cold, stern, unloving father. Her father set the stage insofar as what she was "used to" from a man - her father was an emotional invalid, self absorbed and utterly cold selfish - all 3 of her husbands married her for the same reason - she was decorative, socially well connected, a brilliant hostess, chic, glamorous - but none of her husbands really behaved as though they LOVED her. She was the impeccible "Trophy Wife" - Babe Paley was also a "Trophy Wife" and Bill Paley was a complete asshole who had thousands of affairs that he flaunted in public with no sense of how to be discreete.
I believe the grand love of her life was Leland Hayward, the Broadway producer, but after 10 yrs he did not blink an eyelash before he cheated on her with Pamela Churchill. Remember when Gloria Furness said she should have never let the Prince of Wales alone for the week with Wallis Simpson and said "keep an eye on him and keep him company while i'm gone until I get back" - well THAT is what happened when Pamela Churchill got her claws into Leland Hawyard. The way Leland Hawyard dumped Slim Hawks was really brutal. I n ever liked Pamela Churchill. Leland Hawyards daughter, Brooke wrote a wonderful autobiography "Haywire" and she said when Pamela Churchill was her stepmother, she STOLE all her fine jewelry that had been given to her by her mother - a fine pearl necklace her mother gave her - and also her sister Bridget - both went into Pamela's "caretaking" when they were little girls and then completely disappeared forever when their father died and Pamela Churchill was made a widow.
Lots of the posts are negative against Slim Hawks because she had no career, no job - but back in those days NO women worked who were upper class. The entire emphasis was to find a rich husband and be a society hostess. She was offered the job as an editor for Harpers Bazzar but turned it down because she was pregnant with her daughter Kitty Hawks. If you were rich, back in those days an abortion could be obtained - but Slim kept the baby.
It is true she went away for one month after Kitty was born but she DID raise her and was a far better parent than Howard Hawks, who Slim wrote about in a Vanity Fair article - "Forever Slim" that Howard Hawks spent zero time with his daughter and the two of them did not know each other, until he was dying. Slim was actually a fantastic stepmother to all of her stepkids and was quite motherly towards both Leland Hawyards three kids and they all adored her. Slim was also very motherly towards Sir Keith's children - he completely ignored them, but it was Slim who took a genuine interest in them - and they adored her!
@@colleenwhalen6981I think the information about her only being gone a month then returning to her daughter should have been included, as well as being a loving step mother. It is important and would have shown her in a much better light.
We all have trauma, doesn’t mean you get to be a whore in marriage.
Thanks! 🙏
Thank you too,
So the Lauren Bacall (love her) and best lines in To Have and Have Not was chosen / were written, respectively, by a woman. Makes sense, and not as surprising as (cis) males may think.
She won in life because of her looks.
She also knew how to handle the rich and famous with panache. They said she was never “ starstruck” meaning she saw herself as an equal to them. It takes more than just beauty to blend in with prominent people in society. If it were so easy we’d all be doing it.
She had and led a fascinating life!💕
She seemed like a strong interesting person. And Beautiful.
it's a good thing cigarettes were cheap back then
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She was a beautiful home wrecker 🫤
Interesant ar fi daca s ar face un film dupa viata ei.
Slim was so pretty!
Remarkable? Why? Nurses, doctors, maids, teachers who do their job well saving and helping to build lives are remarkable
Well this would be a good movie I reckon. And Uma Thurman could play her.
A fascinating woman
Remarkable how?
Her looks changed a great deal over the years - not much resemblance between the young Slim and the older one.
Decades of🚬🚬🚬
Never heard of her but this is interesting …
A good candidate for a story is beryl markham.
Thank you, I have added her to the list to look into, an amazing woman. I am hard at work on Lee Miller now. So perhaps in November or December.
I remember this lady
Truman Capote knowingly betrayed these women, abusing their trust for profit. Each woman was was vulnerable in her own way despite their wealth and looks, who confided in him. “His Swans” .. Eww! Truman Capote was horrible in this instance.
They really come off horribly in the excerpts we can read, it is not simply he betrayed their trust, he made them all come off as the most vapid, horrible creatures in existence. It is just so horribly written and intentionally mean, he has Gloria Vanderbilt stuttering (as she had a stutter). Not even recognizing her first husband, Slim as an ugly gossip, who simply talks about everyone in the worst way possible. And at the time, his 'best friend' babe paley was dying of cancer.
It was remarkable how she left her newborn daughter 🙄
They all seemed to do it, as it was believed that children were better raised by nurses and governesses.
Born halfway around the world to the East…the Moirai might have anointed her the archetypal “aryan supergirl”.
What the h happened to her child?
She grew to have a close relationship with her mother, and speaks very fondly of her. She shunned the limelight, got a degree from UCLA, worked for Perry Ellis, before becoming an interior designer. She is still alive.
Dang why so much hate in the comments?
Why not.
The only good looking swan was jackies sister, i think
Bored of Clark Gable?
She thought he was rather dim, nice to look at but a real bore in conversation :) He was said to simply imitate Viktor Fleming. "There was more of Victor Fleming in Gable than Gable in Gable" David Thomson (Film Historian)
She was the most beautiful of the USA in the XX century. I don't know who took her throne in the XXI centenary because it is too early to say, but we already know she isn't one of the 5 or 6 Kardashes females or Beyonce' , because they are all too corrupted and surgically modified to aspire for that ideal position!
No! Not Gwinett Parlow, nor Selena Gomez nor Angelina. At this moment in time I can only think about Anok Yai and Blake Lively, but I m still not swearing even just for the USA!
Narcisistic.
Not remarkable in the least.
Remarkable woman but not kind.
She looked quite ordinary...
What a terrible woman!
Slim and I dated in the 1993, horrible in bed and farted a lot
Excellent
Thank you so much 😀