Lovely looking girl in the early years of the 20th Century. My grandmother also worked as a model at John Wanamaker's in Philadelphia in 1908 and '09 before marrying my grandfather. She told me many stories about Evelyn Nesbit and said it was a newsworthy scandal and called it the trial of the century. I always thought Evelyn was a beautiful name. You never hear it anymore. I'm so glad I preserved and framed photos of my grandmother when she was in her 20s and modeled beautiful stylish dresses. I'm turning 90 in about 10 days. These great old photographs will be destroyed I am sure. I did my best to preserve my grandmother's past with great photos.
Cat lover, Wow! Thanks for sharing your story about your grandmother. I was a kid in the 1970's and 1980's and my grandmother was still living at the time. My grandmother was an Italian- American lady born in 1892 in New Jersey. Lived till 1982. My grandmother Did not live far from the Tom Edison Factories when he was still living doing his inventions. I am sure my grandmother knew about Evelyn Nesbit also when she was young. She went to New York many times too, like Coney Island beach and Amusement park. My mother has a locket somewhere of my grandmother young and looking nice in a dress! It's fascinating still not many cars on the road when our grandmothers were really young. Lots of horse drawn streets still! History has always been fascinating to me. All the best. 😊❤❤
@@G8Grape Thank you. I would like to if I knew how to do it. The photographs are in excellent condition for being well over 100 years old. Better shape than me!
@@catlover34fl Thats fascinating hearing about your grandmother. My grandmother wore those dresses, fancy hats and gloves also. She might have even given Evelyn Nesbit a run for her money back then as a pretty little girl! haha. I saw an old black Mink scarf she used to wear with a mink head on it when I was still a kid. When my grandmother went to Coney Island amusement park as a kid in the early 1900's she said she had a horse-burger. She did not care for it. It was an amusing story. She also told us more about early New York with all the horse poop on the streets it was hard not to step on it. She saw organ grinders with their monkeys. Men would tip their hats to a lady passing by and the lady would smile and nod her head in reply. My grandmother was a nice lady but would call the criminal element or people up to no good Riff-Raff! When going to church, restaurant or an upcoming silent movie you would dress your Sunday best. Fascinating time of invention our grandmothers lived in with the incoming cars and everything.
Maybe you can send the photos to some library either in NY or Philadelphia? It would be such a shame to lose this wonderful historical documents… God bless you and may your days be full of peace ❤
I think you give her mother too much credit by saying that she thought White’s motives were pure and fatherly when she encouraged their interaction and left her in his care. I’m sure she knew what was up.
Back in those days they knew nothing about grooming etc, it was never talked about and never reported or in the papers etc, so the mother probably did not realise what his intentions were. He would have been a master manipulator and the family would have been completely taken in. These days everyone knows what a paedophile is and how grooming works, not so back then.
@@janetpendlebury6808People weren't so naive as you think, not by a long shot. I've read hundreds of court transcripts and plenty of legislation from the era dealing with the subject. People were aware of every form of sexual perversity, though it wasn't openly spoken of in polite circles. Countless younger teens were legally married at the time. White was a vicious serial rapist, but Nesbitt was a young woman, not a child. Ergo, pedophilia had nothing to do with the case. Pedophilia refers to sex with prepubescent and pubescent children. It's now carelessly used to refer to a legal status, rather than the correct biological one.
People in 19-aught-Yadda were not stupid. They knew about sex and lecherous older men. They did not call it "grooming". But mom pimped her daughter out. No more bread and mustard dinners. In England, at the same time, the legal age for marriage was 12. In inbred southern states, thank you for joining the army and supporting Republicans, the legal age was 14. The very idea that mom didn't know what the 47 year old serial child rapist intended is risible. WIN guy is pretty good, great narrative voice. One interesting element: rapist/architect hung out with millionaires and lived like a millionaire. But architects didn't get that rich, good Lord, they were minions like lawyers. He spent much of his time staving off creditors and bankruptcy. So add profligacy to his vices. Raped young girls. Stiffed his creditors. A thorough rotter, I daresay.
@@janetpendlebury6808Don't underestimate people just because they livid in the past. People were much more familiar with the earthy side of life, death and everything else. Women didn't have many options, no rights and women married young.
@@janetpendlebury6808 Don’t tell me they didn’t know. Pedophilia was known all through history and mothers usually protected their children, unless the used them for labor of their own well being.
Fascinating as always Paul. The Gilded Age covered lots of unglamorous things. I really hate hearing about parents living off the backs of their children, as in this case.
Donna, I agree! Like the parents of the cute girl Heather O' Rourke from the "Poltergeist" movies. She like Evelyn Nesbit probably had Pedos after her too!
@@saltwaterpurl The saddest part of that being women who themselves are treated in such ways by their mothers, go on to treat their own daughters the same way. Be it marriage for money to the horrific practice of FGM, men may hold their part in the blame, but women are just as guilty.
Evelyn was quite beautiful when she was young, and throughout most of her life. Sometimes beauty is more of a curse rather than a blessing! I wouldn’t know 😂
I was when I was young and it is a curse because those days girls were more innocent and being pursued by men, while flattering, could be so annoying as you feel your physicality is all you are
I was beautiful and objectified when I was young. It is definitely a curse, because it is almost impossible for men to see you for who you are and love you for who you are. Instead they unconsciously love the idea of you, and objectify you. They get angry when you push back and want to be heard, or seen, do things you love and that feed you if it isn't their first choice. I rejected a lot of decent men, simply because I knew they didn't know me, and therefore could not love me. I had an abusive fundamentalist childhood, and I am a reader and a thinker. It takes time to get to know me because my upbringing was so bizarre, and it is extremely rare that men really care about your thoughts and feelings, never mind hold a conversation. I honestly think there is a massive percentage of men who objectify women and do not realize they are doing it, even with women who are not overtly beautiful. You don't feel like you will survive, but you do. And you learn to use it because you have to. Now in my 50s it's fading, and it is bitter sweet. I actually really like that relationships are more real now, but it feels lonely when you are used to the attention, even though it was fake. It is scary, to be losing your most powerful currency, even though you know it is a big relief. It is very easy to go years without anyone (men or women) curious about who you are.
@@saltwaterpurl This is so true, everything you said I resonate with except that I was fortunate to have a loving, stable upbringing even though my Dad was perhaps very protective of me as I was an only girl and although I wasn’t aware beautiful It did leave me quite naïve and I was mystified why men pursued me continually, I stupidly dismissed the decent ones and went for the bad and eccentric ones Anyway that said I now have 3 beautiful girls and 6 grandchildren and I’m in my 70s , from my 60s on I was aware of the lack of pursuit and loved it , since then I’m so happy on my own and with my own company like I was as a child Beauty can be such a blessing and a curse
When I was a little girl and starting to fall in love with movies, my grandmother met me watch a movie called The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing which was on a late late late show. All I could think was how much fun it’d be to have a red velvet swing. 😂 My grandmother didn’t tell me what exactly I was seeing in the movie. I just knew “the girl” had also been in Land of the Pharaohs and had played the evil wife who got her just desserts. But I still wanted that red velvet swing. I’d even imagine my aluminum swing was one. But one day - as precocious as I was - I found out exactly who these people weee and what the red velvet swing actually meant. Now, years later, as a retired crime scene technician, I’m older and wiser, having worked cares of abuse, stalking, murders motivated by jealousy and “if I can’t have you nobody will.” I know the sad reality of the red velvet swing and this story has always been fascinating to me. Thanks for covering it!
I first learned of this event when I read Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow, because the murder of Stanford White is the opening scene. It is an absolutely incredible book and I cannot recommend it enough to anybody interested in the New York of this era.
My grandmother, her husband and both of their famlies living on the absolutely (still georgous) Restigouche River served as fishing guides and cooks at Stanfords Salmon fishing camp at the mouth of the Upsalquitch River. STANFORD WHITE employed them all, educatated them to NY 'moral' stanards and ensured his employees when on to immitate their betters. Have all the excellent family gossip on that generation. They surely were all interesting folk and all had varied fates well worth a study . . .
No one can convince me that Evelyn's mother didn't know exactly what was going on. When situations presented themselves, she saw it as a way to fame and fortune for the whole family. Mrs. Nesbit never stood in the way of an obviously insane Harry Thaw pursuing Evelyn because he was wealthy. She knew White's reputation and knew what his lavish attention to Evelyn meant. According to her mother, Evelyn's whole role in life was to make money from her beauty.
The movie "The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing," starring Joan Collins and made in Evelyn Nesbit's lifetime, made her a noble victim. The movie "Ragtime" made her an empty-headed Valley Girl; the musical version made her Betty Boop. As usual, the real story is undoubtedly the most interesting, but nobody will ever know what that was (certainly not more than a century later).
Hans, Not only was the movie "The girl in the red velvet swing" made in Evelyn Nesbit lifetime. I saw a photo of Joan Collins as Evelyn Nesbit right next to the real Evelyn Nesbit. It's pictured online.
@@susanyoung5447 Yes, Drew Barrymore's father was John Drew Barrymore. Besides her Grandfather John Barrymore -great aunt Ethel Barrymore and great uncle Lionel Barrymore.
What a fantastic story! When I see these photos of Evelyn, she reminds me of Joan Fontaine quite a bit! I wonder if anyone ever made a full feature film about Ms. Nesbits' life? That would be interesting to see as well. Thanks, Paul 😊
Mr Brody, excellent job! That was so interesting! Love the shirt and you certainly deserve that Oscar on your desk😊 warmest alohas your biggest fan ~Diana 🌸🌺
I grew up in the 1960s and thought the Gibson Girls were lovely. Gibson Girls were , My grandmother's era. Her comment was, " Well, brought up young ladies did not stay alone with a gentleman, under any circumstances. And they did not wear face paint" 😊 lol at that time I was 8 yrs old and my grandmother had lipstick and rouge on. I didn't say one word about her "face paint". Back then if you were smart you didnt say a word ! Loved my grandmother,she was old school and I wish I had paid more attention to what she was saying.
Well, I Never, Love your channel. I have videos and a few books about Evelyn Nesbit, Stanford White and Harry K. Thaw. Thanks for covering her on your channel. I am really into vintage history stuff like this! This story is Forever fascinating to me and to many others. "The Girl on the Red Velvet Swing." Standford White was a pedo in the Gilded Age. Probably Young Evelyn was just one of countless underage girls on Stanford Whites notorious swing, she almost surely was not the first. " Goes to show you the so-called polite, opulent society is often as Cut-Throat & Ruthless as their brothers and sisters living on the dirty street corners!" Chrissy-your fan from America❤❤
Do you think Thaw had a connection with the warehouse fire or that it was purely coincidental? Thank you for an interesting and informative glimpse into this unfortunate woman's life.
Evelyn's eyes in the photo @17:29 reveal a lot about what she may have been feeling. Such sadness & pain they showed. She was robbed of her innocence because of other's selfish wants. So sad.
Would you believe I mainly know about this is the musical Ragtime?! "Now it's the crime of the century/Crime of the century/Giving the world a thrill!/Harry's in trouble/And Stanny's in heaven/And Evelyn is in vaudeville!"
Man! I don’t think men these days hand over money and gifts as easily as back then. They want what they want on the cheap. If you’ll give it for less they’ll take it or move on to the next woman.
SJK, there was a movie about her life called "The girl on the red velvet swing" starring Joan Collins as Evelyn Nesbit in 1955. Her story is also told in the book "Ragtime" by E.L. Doctorow.
Thank you for the story is very interesting and you did a very good job narrating the story. But her mother did not do a good job and she knew what was happening.
Based on the photos you showed in video and other photos I’ve seen of her, Evelyn looked more “cute” than beautiful. Am I missing something…..?? 🤷🏻♂️ Other famous females such as a young Elizabeth Taylor and Brooke Shields in the 1970’s and ‘80’s were much more beautiful than Evelyn in my opinion. I guess “beauty is in the eye of the beholder”.
My grandfather was a great story teller and would regale me of all the exciting things of this period in New York. He was proud that he had lived through the horse and buggy era to see a man walk on the moon.
There is an old movie of her story, The Girl on the Red Velvet Swing might be the title. It starred Joan Collins and Raymond Milland. It was fairly accurate. Others commented about this movie and her story.
Thanks for this. I have a portrait of her that I keep in my work room. It is old but she is very lovely. Not sure where it came from but it is in an oval frame that is five and one half by seven and one half inches. I love it
Benefactor…nice way to say Sugar-daddy. For all those who think the stories of the high profile creeps of recent times (Epstein, Saville, Andrew Windsor etc) are something new, think again. It has always been around, fortunately the most recent have come to light when people cared more about the victims.
I saw a documentary on her. It was so sad. Nothing has changed. Older more experienced men with more money and power sexualy abusing much younger women. I just described Hollywood
Agreed, but at that time was it considered as such? I watched a film about Loretta Lynn and she was married at 15 and that was 1950 so 60 years later? It all seems so bizarre to me.
Lovely looking girl in the early years of the 20th Century. My grandmother also worked as a model at John Wanamaker's in Philadelphia in 1908 and '09 before marrying my grandfather. She told me many stories about Evelyn Nesbit and said it was a newsworthy scandal and called it the trial of the century. I always thought Evelyn was a beautiful name. You never hear it anymore. I'm so glad I preserved and framed photos of my grandmother when she was in her 20s and modeled beautiful stylish dresses. I'm turning 90 in about 10 days. These great old photographs will be destroyed I am sure. I did my best to preserve my grandmother's past with great photos.
You should make a website about your grandmother and post her pictures there, then long after you're gone your grandmother's legacy will go on, ❤
Cat lover, Wow! Thanks for sharing your story about your grandmother. I was a kid in the 1970's and 1980's and my grandmother was still living at the time. My grandmother was an Italian- American lady born in 1892 in New Jersey. Lived till 1982. My grandmother Did not live far from the Tom Edison Factories when he was still living doing his inventions. I am sure my grandmother knew about Evelyn Nesbit also when she was young. She went to New York many times too, like Coney Island beach and Amusement park. My mother has a locket somewhere of my grandmother young and looking nice in a dress! It's fascinating still not many cars on the road when our grandmothers were really young. Lots of horse drawn streets still! History has always been fascinating to me. All the best. 😊❤❤
@@G8Grape Thank you. I would like to if I knew how to do it. The photographs are in excellent condition for being well over 100 years old. Better shape than me!
@@catlover34fl Thats fascinating hearing about your grandmother. My grandmother wore those dresses, fancy hats and gloves also. She might have even given Evelyn Nesbit a run for her money back then as a pretty little girl! haha. I saw an old black Mink scarf she used to wear with a mink head on it when I was still a kid. When my grandmother went to Coney Island amusement park as a kid in the early 1900's she said she had a horse-burger. She did not care for it. It was an amusing story. She also told us more about early New York with all the horse poop on the streets it was hard not to step on it. She saw organ grinders with their monkeys. Men would tip their hats to a lady passing by and the lady would smile and nod her head in reply. My grandmother was a nice lady but would call the criminal element or people up to no good Riff-Raff! When going to church, restaurant or an upcoming silent movie you would dress your Sunday best. Fascinating time of invention our grandmothers lived in with the incoming cars and everything.
Maybe you can send the photos to some library either in NY or Philadelphia? It would be such a shame to lose this wonderful historical documents… God bless you and may your days be full of peace ❤
I think you give her mother too much credit by saying that she thought White’s motives were pure and fatherly when she encouraged their interaction and left her in his care. I’m sure she knew what was up.
Back in those days they knew nothing about grooming etc, it was never talked about and never reported or in the papers etc, so the mother probably did not realise what his intentions were. He would have been a master manipulator and the family would have been completely taken in. These days everyone knows what a paedophile is and how grooming works, not so back then.
@@janetpendlebury6808People weren't so naive as you think, not by a long shot. I've read hundreds of court transcripts and plenty of legislation from the era dealing with the subject. People were aware of every form of sexual perversity, though it wasn't openly spoken of in polite circles. Countless younger teens were legally married at the time. White was a vicious serial rapist, but Nesbitt was a young woman, not a child. Ergo, pedophilia had nothing to do with the case. Pedophilia refers to sex with prepubescent and pubescent children. It's now carelessly used to refer to a legal status, rather than the correct biological one.
People in 19-aught-Yadda were not stupid. They knew about sex and lecherous older men. They did not call it "grooming". But mom pimped her daughter out. No more bread and mustard dinners.
In England, at the same time, the legal age for marriage was 12. In inbred southern states, thank you for joining the army and supporting Republicans, the legal age was 14. The very idea that mom didn't know what the 47 year old serial child rapist intended is risible.
WIN guy is pretty good, great narrative voice. One interesting element: rapist/architect hung out with millionaires and lived like a millionaire. But architects didn't get that rich, good Lord, they were minions like lawyers. He spent much of his time staving off creditors and bankruptcy.
So add profligacy to his vices. Raped young girls. Stiffed his creditors. A thorough rotter, I daresay.
@@janetpendlebury6808Don't underestimate people just because they livid in the past. People were much more familiar with the earthy side of life, death and everything else. Women didn't have many options, no rights and women married young.
@@janetpendlebury6808 Don’t tell me they didn’t know. Pedophilia was known all through history and mothers usually protected their children, unless the used them for labor of their own well being.
This is such a sad story! The poor girl was basically pimped out then blamed for the consequences 😓
I can't imagine her mother being that naive! She knew what she was doing! Shame on her!!
Fascinating as always Paul. The Gilded Age covered lots of unglamorous things. I really hate hearing about parents living off the backs of their children, as in this case.
Donna, I agree! Like the parents of the cute girl Heather O' Rourke from the "Poltergeist" movies. She like Evelyn Nesbit probably had Pedos after her too!
Now… we have children living off their parents… 😂😂😂
Unfortunately, Donna, it's still happening.
Nesbit’s Mom, the original Momager.
That's been going on a lot further back I am afraid. As long as women have been comodified.
@@saltwaterpurl The saddest part of that being women who themselves are treated in such ways by their mothers, go on to treat their own daughters the same way. Be it marriage for money to the horrific practice of FGM, men may hold their part in the blame, but women are just as guilty.
Even when I actually know the story you are covering I learn a lot. You guys are good. Thank you, Paul and co.!
Evelyn was quite beautiful when she was young, and throughout most of her life. Sometimes beauty is more of a curse rather than a blessing! I wouldn’t know 😂
Me, neither 😂
Me neither, luckily. It can't be nice to know you're just a trophy that will be exchanged once your beauty inevitably fades.
I was when I was young and it is a curse because those days girls were more innocent and being pursued by men, while flattering, could be so annoying as you feel your physicality is all you are
I was beautiful and objectified when I was young. It is definitely a curse, because it is almost impossible for men to see you for who you are and love you for who you are. Instead they unconsciously love the idea of you, and objectify you. They get angry when you push back and want to be heard, or seen, do things you love and that feed you if it isn't their first choice. I rejected a lot of decent men, simply because I knew they didn't know me, and therefore could not love me. I had an abusive fundamentalist childhood, and I am a reader and a thinker. It takes time to get to know me because my upbringing was so bizarre, and it is extremely rare that men really care about your thoughts and feelings, never mind hold a conversation. I honestly think there is a massive percentage of men who objectify women and do not realize they are doing it, even with women who are not overtly beautiful. You don't feel like you will survive, but you do. And you learn to use it because you have to. Now in my 50s it's fading, and it is bitter sweet. I actually really like that relationships are more real now, but it feels lonely when you are used to the attention, even though it was fake. It is scary, to be losing your most powerful currency, even though you know it is a big relief. It is very easy to go years without anyone (men or women) curious about who you are.
@@saltwaterpurl This is so true, everything you said I resonate with except that I was fortunate to have a loving, stable upbringing even though my Dad was perhaps very protective of me as I was an only girl and although I wasn’t aware beautiful
It did leave me quite naïve and I was mystified why men pursued me continually, I stupidly dismissed the decent ones and went for the bad and eccentric ones
Anyway that said I now have 3 beautiful girls and 6 grandchildren and I’m in my 70s , from my 60s on I was aware of the lack of pursuit and loved it , since then I’m so happy on my own and with my own company like I was as a child
Beauty can be such a blessing and a curse
When I was a little girl and starting to fall in love with movies, my grandmother met me watch a movie called The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing which was on a late late late show. All I could think was how much fun it’d be to have a red velvet swing. 😂 My grandmother didn’t tell me what exactly I was seeing in the movie. I just knew “the girl” had also been in Land of the Pharaohs and had played the evil wife who got her just desserts. But I still wanted that red velvet swing. I’d even imagine my aluminum swing was one. But one day - as precocious as I was - I found out exactly who these people weee and what the red velvet swing actually meant. Now, years later, as a retired crime scene technician, I’m older and wiser, having worked cares of abuse, stalking, murders motivated by jealousy and “if I can’t have you nobody will.” I know the sad reality of the red velvet swing and this story has always been fascinating to me. Thanks for covering it!
That sort of abuse still lives on. Well told Thank you
P ditty of the days past
Well, I never would believe that you would bring in more details into the story - good job - you did!!!
I first learned of this event when I read Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow, because the murder of Stanford White is the opening scene. It is an absolutely incredible book and I cannot recommend it enough to anybody interested in the New York of this era.
There was a movie Ragtime in 1981. I presume it was based on the book.
@@susanb2015 Yeah, there was a musical too.
Yes, read it when I was a teen. Blew my lid
@@erraticonteuse Yes, I saw the musical on New Yorks Broadway. It was good!
Thanks for the book recommendation! :)
I am fascinated by this story. Loving the new channel! ❤
Oh my goodness, thank you so very much for doing this Paul!!!
I remember this story! Thanks for the upload on my September 17, 2024 birthday!
Happy Birthday! I hope you have a great day 😁🎂
Happy birthday! It's also my sister's birthday lol
Flamsterette, Happy Birthday! ❤❤
Wait you were born today? Wow you learn how to type already?
Happy Happy Birthday 🎂💕🎂💕🎂
There is a very good movie about her
The girl in the red velvet swing
Joan Collins plays Evelyn 🌻🍁🌻🍁🌻
My grandmother, her husband and both of their famlies living on the absolutely (still georgous) Restigouche River served as fishing guides and cooks at Stanfords Salmon fishing camp at the mouth of the Upsalquitch River. STANFORD WHITE employed them all, educatated them to NY 'moral' stanards and ensured his employees when on to immitate their betters.
Have all the excellent family gossip on that generation. They surely were all interesting folk and all had varied fates well worth a study . . .
Yall found a lot of photos, it helps tell the story ❤
I am astonished at the quality of the photos. They are so sharp. I can only presume there is a lot of editing but they look great.
No one can convince me that Evelyn's mother didn't know exactly what was going on. When situations presented themselves, she saw it as a way to fame and fortune for the whole family. Mrs. Nesbit never stood in the way of an obviously insane Harry Thaw pursuing Evelyn because he was wealthy. She knew White's reputation and knew what his lavish attention to Evelyn meant. According to her mother, Evelyn's whole role in life was to make money from her beauty.
Brilliant storytelling! Absolutely love this. I had heard about her but I didn't realize all the details of her life. Thank you for this channel😊
Superb storytelling!!! Thank you
Well I never is my absolute favorite channel so happy to have an extension of it. 😊❤
The movie "The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing," starring Joan Collins and made in Evelyn Nesbit's lifetime, made her a noble victim. The movie "Ragtime" made her an empty-headed Valley Girl; the musical version made her Betty Boop. As usual, the real story is undoubtedly the most interesting, but nobody will ever know what that was (certainly not more than a century later).
Hans, Not only was the movie "The girl in the red velvet swing" made in Evelyn Nesbit lifetime. I saw a photo of Joan Collins as Evelyn Nesbit right next to the real Evelyn Nesbit. It's pictured online.
I seen the movie as a young woman ….it was heart wrenching
John Barrymore is the grandfather of Drew Barrymore
I think John was also her father's name. She's the latest of an acting dynasty. At least 5 generations.
@@susanyoung5447 Yes, Drew Barrymore's father was John Drew Barrymore. Besides her Grandfather John Barrymore -great aunt Ethel Barrymore and great uncle Lionel Barrymore.
@sonnycorleone2602 Thank you.
@@susanyoung5447 You're welcome! 😊
Yes and her paternal grandmother was the beautiful actress Delores Costello. Drew resembles her.
What a fantastic story! When I see these photos of Evelyn, she reminds me of Joan Fontaine quite a bit! I wonder if anyone ever made a full feature film about Ms. Nesbits' life? That would be interesting to see as well. Thanks, Paul 😊
@@franken-pattern yes, they did. The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing starring Joan Collins.
@@Theaddorasad and awful.
My grandmother had a friend in middle school who was named Evelyn, and it turns out she was Evelyn Nesbit's niece.
Omg! I requested her for in your last video! Thank you so much for covering her! I played her in a show before and I just had to research!
Wonderful story very fascinating. You as usual are a fabulous story teller thank you. 🤗🎶🐩🥰
As always it was a super presentation delivered with your superb diction! Thank you Rob
Great episode Sir 👍
That life story of Evelyn Nesbit was very fascinating. Thank you so much.
What a sad life. I can't believe I've never heard her story before, even though I definitely knew her name.
There is 2 movies about her.
1. The girl in the red velvet swing.
Jason Collins played Evelyn
2. Ragtime
They are both good movies🌻🍁🌻🍁🌻
The stories you share are fascinating
Always the most interesting content. Thank you for your hard work and time to keep making videos.
Mr Brody, excellent job! That was so interesting! Love the shirt and you certainly deserve that Oscar on your desk😊 warmest alohas your biggest fan ~Diana 🌸🌺
Well, I never…knew I’d see this channel!!! And I sure love it!!!! New subscriber after watching!!! Thanks! From California!
Thankyou Paul. Incredible story.
I grew up in the 1960s and thought the Gibson Girls were lovely.
Gibson Girls were ,
My grandmother's era.
Her comment was,
" Well, brought up young ladies did not stay alone with a gentleman, under any circumstances. And they did not wear face paint"
😊 lol at that time I was 8 yrs old and my grandmother had lipstick and rouge on.
I didn't say one word about her "face paint".
Back then if you were smart you didnt say a word !
Loved my grandmother,she was old school and I wish I had paid more attention to what she was saying.
Paul.. you are great my friend.. thanks for everything you do to educate those of us who care for history...
What a well put together documentary on her life. I've watched so many on Evelyn Nesbit. She was so lovely...
Well, I Never, Love your channel. I have videos and a few books about Evelyn Nesbit, Stanford White and Harry K. Thaw. Thanks for covering her on your channel. I am really into vintage history stuff like this! This story is Forever fascinating to me and to many others. "The Girl on the Red Velvet Swing." Standford White was a pedo in the Gilded Age. Probably Young Evelyn was just one of countless underage girls on Stanford Whites notorious swing, she almost surely was not the first. " Goes to show you the so-called polite, opulent society is often as Cut-Throat & Ruthless as their brothers and sisters living on the dirty street corners!"
Chrissy-your fan from America❤❤
Great story, Paul. Thank you.
Yes, a storyline old as time. So sad.
I adore you Paul!!! You are the best storyteller! ❤
Very well done. Thanks. Well, I never!
Amazing! No music as well! All videos without background music are so superior!
Thank you.
I was wrong as I can hear some music at 4 min. ☹️but it was very faint , I must add. 😊
I love your channel!
Sensationl paul you guys always come through
Like champs sensationl
Do you think Thaw had a connection with the warehouse fire or that it was purely coincidental? Thank you for an interesting and informative glimpse into this unfortunate woman's life.
Brilliantly told ❤👏👏👏
I just loved your opening line “ long before Marlon Monroe stolid above her subway grate “ excellent 👌
Marlon Wayans 🥴
Was Marlon Monroe related to Marlon Brando? 😅 I wonder how long she had to stolid above that subway grate. 😅
This lady was far from beautiful and nowhere near the beauty of MM
Oh I thought she was really stunning in a dark , sultry and more independent way
Evelyn's eyes in the photo @17:29 reveal a lot about what she may have been feeling. Such sadness & pain they showed. She was robbed of her innocence because of other's selfish wants. So sad.
There is a movie with Joan Collins about the murder and trial, if I'm not mistaken called "The Girl on the Red Swing" or something close to it.
Would you believe I mainly know about this is the musical Ragtime?!
"Now it's the crime of the century/Crime of the century/Giving the world a thrill!/Harry's in trouble/And Stanny's in heaven/And Evelyn is in vaudeville!"
WoW i truly enjoyed, your storytelling
Love these! Ty so much!
Diddy must have taken a page or two out of White's book.
And several pages out of Evelyn's perverted husband's "book" as well!!
They all work for the same team all of them every last one of them in every aspect of news,media,sports and politics 😂
I agree!
Thanks!
Thank you so much 😊🙏
I love those pics! Ty.
Man! I don’t think men these days hand over money and gifts as easily as back then. They want what they want on the cheap. If you’ll give it for less they’ll take it or move on to the next woman.
Damn them! They can move on. Scarcely a man worth the time of day anymore anyway.
😮they can keep the gifts that include surprise abuse.... As with all gifts it's what is behind the thought that counts. 😅
Awesome story. I loved it 😊 Nice work
A lovely story, thank you for sharing.
Someone should do a movie about her life
SJK, there was a movie about her life called "The girl on the red velvet swing" starring Joan Collins as Evelyn Nesbit in 1955. Her story is also told in the book "Ragtime" by E.L. Doctorow.
@@sonnycorleone2602Thanks! I’ve been looking through the comments for book and movie recommendations. :)
Yes - it does sound like you were saying, "Thor" - not "Thaw". My mother, from Boston, would've pronounced "Thaw" similarly. 😉
Thank you
She looks very childlike. Gives one pause.
Thank you for the story is very interesting and you did a very good job narrating the story. But her mother did not do a good job and she knew what was happening.
What happened to the son?
Just found you channel . Well done.
Damn thee, Paul… the entire time I thought you were saying Harry “Thor” Lol
Enjoyed the story. I think I saw a movie about a red velvet swing.
Yes. It was "The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing." Starring Joan Collins and Ray Milland!😊
Yes. It was called "The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing." Starring Joan Collins and Ray Milland!😊
❤ fascinating history stories
Just subbed!!! I had never heard about Nesbit "et al". Soo interesting!!
I think this will haunt me.
Based on the photos you showed in video and other photos I’ve seen of her, Evelyn looked more “cute” than beautiful. Am I missing something…..?? 🤷🏻♂️ Other famous females such as a young Elizabeth Taylor and Brooke Shields in the 1970’s and ‘80’s were much more beautiful than Evelyn in my opinion. I guess “beauty is in the eye of the beholder”.
The type of woman who is considered "beautiful" is constantly changing!
@@cecileroy557 True
Elizabeth Taylor was a beautiful woman.
I love listening to you!!
Back when "Letters of Introduction" were a reality. Now, a long ago custom that is not really practiced anymore... What a great time in America...
Back when “natural beauty” wasn’t questionable.
My grandfather was a great story teller and would regale me of all the exciting things of this period in New York. He was proud that he had lived through the horse and buggy era to see a man walk on the moon.
Very enjoyable story. She outlived her men at least.
Brilliant story! There must be a movie about this, surely?
There is an old movie of her story, The Girl on the Red Velvet Swing might be the title. It starred Joan Collins and Raymond Milland. It was fairly accurate. Others commented about this movie and her story.
How very sad 😔
Thanks for this. I have a portrait of her that I keep in my work room. It is old but she is very lovely. Not sure where it came from but it is in an oval frame that is five and one half by seven and one half inches. I love it
❤ ❤Paul, I would also recommend author Paula Uruburu's novel "Americsn Eve" for further exploration.
Right then! Thanks
Benefactor…nice way to say Sugar-daddy.
For all those who think the stories of the high profile creeps of recent times (Epstein, Saville, Andrew Windsor etc) are something new, think again. It has always been around, fortunately the most recent have come to light when people cared more about the victims.
I saw a documentary on her. It was so sad. Nothing has changed. Older more experienced men with more money and power sexualy abusing much younger women. I just described Hollywood
Ots so tragic:(
16 year olds are adolescents, not adults.
Agreed, but at that time was it considered as such? I watched a film about Loretta Lynn and she was married at 15 and that was 1950 so 60 years later? It all seems so bizarre to me.
The name Nesbit always makes me think of Toy Story and Buzz going nuts.
Very interesting!
She must have had a very beautiful personality/ voice Can*t see her exceptional beauty
True, she was just an average pretty girl to me.
lol, right. Where do you live, heaven?
She was amazingly beautiful.
Well I never...
There are rumors Evelyn aborted John's baby. They later met again in the 1930' s.
Such are the trials and tribulations of the privileged and idle rich.
Amazing what the story is behind the icons
She was cute as hell
He was the P Diddy of his day ? Doesn't surprise me.
Whoa. That’s a coincidence! I just posted a video on the same subject. Great minds think alike. 🤔😎
What is the small statue beside you? 🙂