She had a Financially High Society Live Style & Looking For Love in All The Wrong Places. She Really Was a Very LONELY EMPTY HUMAN SHE DIED EMPTY 🤔 Really Sad Life 🤔
She was classicly beautiful. Facial symmetry, high cheekbones, perfectly proportioned. Don’t know what y’all comparing her to, but there’s an actual standard that’s measurable and applies across ethnicities.
@@elizabethclaiborne6461 Her mouth was slightly asymmetrical, her mouth was small, and her lips were not full. She had a flat face. Strip away the clothes, makeup and manicure, and she was very plain looking. If she lived in a trailer park, no one would ever call her a beauty and she would never have attracted the attention of rich and powerful men. She wasn't ugly, but classically beautiful? Absolutely not.
Great video,,, Even though I never knew Babe,, I was the display director for the Bonwit Teller store in Beverly Hills during the 70's. This gave me close access to women like Betsy Bloomingdale, Harriet Deutsch, Nancy Dinsmore, and Zsa Zsa Gabor. I used to take them all out to the gay disco clubs at the time in a limo paid for by Bonwit Teller. I consider those some of the best times of my entire life. I'm 74 now and this video reminded me of all the glamorous times we had. Thank you! I'm now a new subscriber. 💯 👍🐸👍
I know it was a joy to be around polish and well dressed people.On the east coast I enjoyed watching the ladies from Deal, NJ, but it was early 80s, when I was in 4th grade.
She was a jewel of society. She shone brightly when necessary and was arm candy for her husband. She skated through life as an adornment of high society and died from its effects.
Proof that money, status, and style are just a mask for the lonely, sad, and morally bankrupt. In Babe Paley's case, her children were the victims of her selfish ambitions.
This was interesting and well put together but the title is total clickbait. What was the shocking confession? Calling her husband out at the end? Hardly "shocking ".
A lot of human beings believe that beauty and money are everything. However, this story is a prime example that it isn't and the fact it certainly cannot buy love. Despite this, some people, will kill for the love of money, and in the end they are still not happy, and die a lonely death. I realize I would rather have God's love and peace of mind than be rich. You cannot take it with you and beauty fades. Shalom.
It wasn’t her money so she wasn’t buying anything but clothes. Paley bought plenty of love. Beauty isn’t acquired, you have it or not. Tired of the average making it some moral matter because they didn’t hit the genetic jackpot.
I'm 70 yrs old now and I discovered the 'spiritual' side of life about 40 years ago! I've never had much $$$ but I've been relatively happy over time but I appreciate God's love more, the older I get! Luckily society is only about 99.9% FAKE BS! L0L
The sisters were quite homely. I don't understand why they have always been touted for their beauty. Babe learned how to style herself and benefited greatly from facial reconstruction but by today's standards would not have been defined by her appearance.
you were very fortunate, mine was an 'old' man if you get what I mean, , yet only 3 years older than me, I was lonely every day of the 14 years I was married to him, I think he was a narcissist but in those days, that word wasn't used...an abuser, and I didn't even like him never mind anything else...
What was the shocking secret that Babe Paley confessed while dying? Gilligan's Island was her favorite show and she did not want it cancelled. However, husband William cancelled it anyway, although ratings were good.
@KingOfFuh Actually, Babe's favourite show was 'Gunsmoke', and when it was in danger of being axed for the 1967-68 season, Bill Paley cancelled 'Gilligan's Island' and one other half-hour show to make time for it. 'Gunsmoke' would go on to run for another 7 seasons.
Thank you ''KingOFuh'' ... I am agreeing with you 100%!! The title was the absolute worst CLICK~BAIT come on to get you to watch this story. Shame on them🤥🤮😖🤥
Beauty standards change. Plus it’s sometimes difficult to assess beauty from pictures. There are so many reports from her contemporaries regarding her beauty that leads me to believe there was something magnetic about her that we don’t see in pictures.
Wallis was nothing like Babe. Wallace was uncaring, androgynous sexually, and just wanted to be FAMOUS. She did everything she could do to be noticed, but it didn't work. She and her husband were great admirers of Adolf Hitler. No one in the royal family liked her. You also have to realize that she was divorced and in that time in history that was a huge no-no!! The Prince was a weak man and she had him wrapped around her finger.
Capote was NEVER a fiction writer. He was always a story embellish-er. He could hear a story, or live a story, and then tweak it for dramatic flamboyance or ironic effect. But he never had the inventive mind for actual fiction. The girls were a story trove for Truman who did not have to invent anything or give a story a theme. He simply had to amuse them long enough to spill.
Isn't it amazing how beauty standards change from generation to generation? I mean, she was obviously an attractive woman, but beautiful...? Well, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, I guess.
@marthaj67, I agree. She wasn't beautiful, but her total exquisite elegance made her eye catching. She, along with the other swans were not unique. They were the standard high society women.
Babe Paley was photogenic, had impeccable fashion sense and was from the upper classes. BTW, the first "buxom blonde" that appeared in the doc was Jayne Mansfield with Tom Ewell in The Girl Can't Help It in 1956. Marilyn Monroe appeared next.
You can never truly judge somebody’s beauty based off of old footage and pictures you’d have to see the individual in person. Beauty truly does shine through, and she had ir
They're so worried about what others are thinking and saying of them that they all look truly unhappy. Their so call rich, glamours and famous lifestyles are just so pathetic. I wouldn't have that lifestyle for anything. I purchased my dresses from JC Penny's and my blue jeans and T-shirts from Walmart. I'm very, very happy with my down to earth life with real friends and family.
cathy...actually, I read long ago that Babe Paley was notorious for finding original decorative items (pillows, tablecloths, vases etc) at five-and-dime's like Woolworth's. She also said the jackets, slacks and blouses, in the bargain basement at Filene's Dept Store, fit her the best. Truman Capote said he learned from MsPaley to never ever buy new furniture. Buy used & cheap...and have it fabulously redecorated.
CZ Guest was one of only two swans who did not cut Capote out of her life; he had not included her story in that chapter of the never-published Answered Prayers. Her view was "what did they (the swans) expect?" Guest had never shared her secrets with the writer. Capote did not include Lee Radziwill's story. either. They had become less close in recent years.
Now it's been 4 times. Having fun, TH-cam? I have tried twice to clarify I am referring to Truman Capote. Grrrr YT We weren't able to add your reply. Please try again.
She looks like a generic 50's executive secretary, and uncomfortably close to Betty Crocker! Not an extraordinary beauty, or an extraordinary anything.
Looks aren't indicative of who someone is inside, you never knew her and she was not "anything" but a traumatized human being...how dare you devaluate another human being!
I had to familiarize myself with this story so I looked up Capote, a little before my time, but I’m guessing her life was very much like any other high society of the day. Still, what was written was scathing. Small potatoes compared to what some can unleash on social media today…sad, really.
@@RogerDulyWell, he ruined his life as a result. And he realized that very quickly. He tried to undo the havoc he wreaked- but nothing would ever undo the humiliation and betrayal Babe Paley suffered.
the plural of woman is women. The word woman is a singular noun that refers to one female adult person, as in I gave my papers to the woman behind the counter. The plural of woman is women, as in Three women were waiting at the bus stop. Examples of women and woman in a sentence To test whether we have grasped this irregular noun, let’s look at some example sentences that use the words woman and women. The role of Hamlet was played by a woman. The Amazons were a tribe of warrior women. Two women in raincoats stood next to the woman with an umbrella. The French monarchy was never ruled by a woman, but the English monarchy has had several women wear the crown.
Capote loved to gain the trust of the Swans all the while pitting, manipulating, using and just utterly dishonest. He loved to destroy these women whenever he wanted and when he was done with them. Strange little man.
Both men had a negative impact on her life. But agree you are responding for your own level of content. Notice I didn’t use that misnomer for life….happy!
She was very expensively dressed and decked out in jewelry that the average woman couldn't afford but beautiful...no! I've seen better looking women in a supermarket.
@@user-vf3zi6we3g the standards of beauty changes with the generations, I do not think the extreme & overblown breasts, hips, lips, eyebrows, hair extensions, eyelashes, 2" nails will age well. Future generations may well wonder if Earth was invaded by aliens in the 2000s looking back on our current deplorable 'beauties'.
The more I research her, the more I fall in love with her. She was the epitome of class and dignity. If only she stopped smoking before it was too late
She spoke up to her husband finally. Told him she'd done too much for him. Didn't live her own life. Women didn't do much of that in her time, especially if your husband financed your whole living. Women didn't even get their own credit cards until 1974 in the US.
I have never heard of this woman. Working in end of life facilities, nursing homes, you hear the worst things in the world. It is very sad and it takes a lot out of you I lost all faith in humanity
In my apartment library I found a book on Babe Paley and her sisters. I had never heard of them although I knew the Paley name. Interesting that now there is a movie documenting her relationship with Capita and several other socialites of the time. Money definitely attracts money be it old money, new money, or I just got lucky and married it!
She was beautiful on the outside, but her life was a mess. She married twice but l think her unions were more about convenience, obsession and approval than any form of love.. Good husbands are rare, it seems. And, as always, the children suffer .
That attitude was very typical of that era. Babe was just one year older than my mother who died in 1997. Snobbery in the end destroys and is so empty. These days the form of snobbery is the cancel culture.
She looks like a completely different woman in many of these pictures. It's probably her makeup, hair style and her replaced teeth. Makeup is what it says: make up for what you don't have. So, if her new face was expertly painted on, she might've looked amazing or maybe she looked much better with much less of the paint, which often is the case. But the beauty comes from the within and usually the very kind and modest women look the most beautiful without any makeup. I had a friend like that who was like a quiet, sweet angel and so beautiful, it was hard not to stare at her. 😇
In my opinion Babe PaIey wasn't all that good-looking, especially given her negative personality. And I always wonder how some women can consider their daughter as competition. Weird. What a shallow person.
A lot of women kept jewels at a vault (bank). It was a matter of insurance...getting insurance on them and keeping it, so. Same if you have priceless works of art. If you want to insure...say a vase, you can't just keep it anywhere you want to...well I suppose you could, but premiums go up
This story is just further proof that money and beauty does not mean your life is perfect. The face that the social status was her main concern is just so sad. I always laugh a little when I hear anyone obsess over their social status.
People always assume if someone has beauty & wealth, they must have the perfect life. Most of those "perfect" people have miserable lives. Aside from the click bait title, I enjoyed the video. As a teenager, I love T. Capote, his novels & his Swans.
Mark 8:34 “Then he called the crowd to him along with his disciples and said: “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. 35 For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me and for the gospel will save it. 36 What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? 37 Or what can anyone give in exchange for their soul?”
There’s a strange trend I’ve noticed on TH-cam in the past few years (including in this video) where the host pronounces the word “women” like the singular, “woman” (“WUH-mun”). The correct pronunciation of the word “women” (the plural form) is “WHIM-en”.
What an amazing woman to have suffered so much so gracefully. Physical pain does tend to bring out the truths of one's suffering. She reminds me of some "star quality" people. How hard to live with your whole life based on lies and have no succor. She had class and monies but at what cost? PS Where's the death bed confession?
‼Stay tuned for Deathbed Confession: Part 2‼ Otherwise, very enjoyable mini-doc. It would have been perfect, had I not been waiting for something that wasn't going to happen.
Nicotine + Coffee, can diminish ur appetite. Plus the constant oral gratification of smoking substitutes the real desire for chewing/eating, like a cow chewing a cub, it placates the nervous, obsessive mind.
I don't think any of the three sisters were particularly attractive, would have liked to have seen them without all the makeup. All the sisters seem to have been high class grifters. Feel sorry for their kids.
Not grifters though. Socialites had family money, that's what made them socialites. Just as Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis and her sister Lee (Princess) Radziwill were reared and educated to marry very rich and successful men. Grace Kelly the actress and later Princess, was from a rich socialite Philadelphia family and ended up as Princess Grace of Monaco. No accident.
I never saw her as a victim… she play the game win and got her prize . I heard that story as a kid and listen to it now still think she play victim very well.
First of all, she’s not that drop down gorgeous as this video claims. Also, just about any woman with all that money and time available could look and become very attractive and beautiful. In other words, take away the money, time and social status and she’s just so so.
That's the difference between being able to create beauty and buying it. Money shows but doesn't glow without those who have the gift to create it. beauty.
Poor Babe. What a horrid accident. She sort of wafted through later life in exquisitely fashionable clothes and became a fashion “influencer.” She was one of the “ladies who lunch” at the Four Seasons in NYC. Her only great love was Truman Capote. It was a love-friendship. He made women feel as if they were not only haute fashion, but culturally hip. If you hung out with a successful writer like Tru, you were more than a dress or a mansion. You were smart and even intellectual. Which the “Swans” were not, particularly. Truman gave them that cachet. Secretly, he looked down on (and was jealous of) them.
I agree with "Truman gave them that cachet." None of them were bred to be intellectual, to discover who they really were or be authentic; they were bred to attract a rich society husband. Lee Radziwill was a good example of this as she felt overshadowed by her sister Jackie who WAS intellectual. Capote knew this and built her up. (I "followed" Lee during the final years of her life.)
Read the book on B.P. almost 2 decades ago...same for T.C. (biography and his own book) and as usual anything we read online is lacking. Lots left out and some outright decrepincies. For instance Capote was shunned not only by Paley's circle,but all NY society leaving him a broken man the rest of his life. He was not a very nice man. He had a strange childhood,tho not abusive. So does half the world and most people do not end up turning on a friend as he did even as a young teen. I don't think we can deny his tremendous writing talents. "In Cold Blood"was a nonfiction masterpiece. Another,my favorite short story,is "Tiny Coffins". It's been couple of decades,but am pretty sure that is title. For anyone interested I found it in a book that was the complete collection of his short stories. Every one of them very readable.
I read the book, "The Swan's", and I had a completely different take on Babe. Everyone loved her, her husband was a total jerk. Finally when he realized she was dying he felt terrible and couldn't do enough to please her. Truman absolutely adored her and had no idea why all of the Swan's would dislike him after his awful article in Esquire. Babe was very hurt, but because she felt sorry for him, did come around to being kind to him again. Not the other woman!!! That article about the Swan's was the beginning of Truman's decline in society and life in general! He became a major alcoholic which eventually took his life. Babe sounded like a truly good person and a kind soul. Thanks.
@@MeeshyMish You are right about her children, but thank goodness they did do quite well without her. A lot of us do well in life without perfect Mothering?
@@susanvotroubek7440 thats beside my point; "a truly good person and a kind soul" as you called her would not have been that way to her children. Imo she sounded like a horrible woman that only cared about all the wrong things.
@@MeeshyMish ok you have a good point! Maybe she was just nice to people who didn't really count! I read about her daughter who she really neglected but, she turned out to be a very educated, powerful woman! She was head of huge corporations, maybe the only thing her Mom did right was hire decent , kind people who were good substitute Mother figures. Have a good day 🙏.
Attractiveness was not different--look at the movie stars and models of the time. If you had lots of money and social connections, and looked okay, the papers called you "beautiful".
I suppose at one time long ago, this sort of person would have been a prize turkey. Nowadays we’ve had women astronauts, brilliant scientists, physicians, inventors, painters, musicians, etc. For my two cents, one night at a Callas performance of Norma would be worth 100 “Babes”. They really accomplish nothing in life that needs to be put down in history.
I loved your video. Kudos. You're getting some negative responses from some jerks. It's unfortunate. Perhaps they should produce their own videos. I think you did a fabulous job.
What did you make of Babe Paley? Let us know your thoughts below in the comments👇!
she was stunning.
I want to learn more.
Where was the deathbed confession that silenced the room?
Did you post this crap
I think it was all a bit boring. Sorry her children grew up in a dysfunctional family, but I guess that happens to many of us.
Her world, and everyone in it, seemed so empty, superficial and depressing.
Agree--more to life than fashion!
The worst bit is how she neglected her children and was jealous of her own daughter. Nasty.
Exactement! Ick.
She had a Financially High Society Live Style & Looking For Love in All The Wrong Places. She Really Was a Very LONELY EMPTY HUMAN SHE DIED EMPTY 🤔 Really Sad Life 🤔
That's right, things aren't as flashy as people look at them
I find it interesting how wealth and social status can often sway the consensus into what constitutes “beautiful.”
Me too!
Paris Hilton
You said it in a much kinder and gentler way than I ever could. Thank you.
She was classicly beautiful. Facial symmetry, high cheekbones, perfectly proportioned. Don’t know what y’all comparing her to, but there’s an actual standard that’s measurable and applies across ethnicities.
@@elizabethclaiborne6461 Her mouth was slightly asymmetrical, her mouth was small, and her lips were not full. She had a flat face. Strip away the clothes, makeup and manicure, and she was very plain looking. If she lived in a trailer park, no one would ever call her a beauty and she would never have attracted the attention of rich and powerful men. She wasn't ugly, but classically beautiful? Absolutely not.
Great video,,, Even though I never knew Babe,, I was the display director for the Bonwit Teller store in Beverly Hills during the 70's. This gave me close access to women like Betsy Bloomingdale, Harriet Deutsch, Nancy Dinsmore, and Zsa Zsa Gabor. I used to take them all out to the gay disco clubs at the time in a limo paid for by Bonwit Teller. I consider those some of the best times of my entire life. I'm 74 now and this video reminded me of all the glamorous times we had.
Thank you! I'm now a new subscriber. 💯
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I know it was a joy to be around polish and well dressed people.On the east coast I enjoyed watching the ladies from Deal, NJ, but it was early 80s, when I was in 4th grade.
Sounds like you really have some great experiences therefore great memories! I can only imagine……
…do you know Babe’s deathbed confession?
I adored the Bonwit Teller store in Philadelphia.
Haha yes! Studio 54 days. Those days will never come back. We lived it!
She was a jewel of society. She shone brightly when necessary and was arm candy for her husband. She skated through life as an adornment of high society and died from its effects.
Proof that money, status, and style are just a mask for the lonely, sad, and morally bankrupt. In Babe Paley's case, her children were the victims of her selfish ambitions.
She rejected her own children in favor of those who never loved her.
So true, and you certainly don't take it with you.
and she paid the price
This was interesting and well put together but the title is total clickbait. What was the shocking confession? Calling her husband out at the end? Hardly "shocking ".
Back in those days, especially in “high society” that WAS a pretty shocking thing to do.
Yep Christine. Especially since she had never criticized him - doing so harshly in front of the people closest to him was extremely bold.
Click$h*+. Total. Only shocking in those days…and everyone already knew anyway.
I agree
How awful for her children. At least Amanda made something of her life on her own. She's intelligent, hard-working, and beautiful.
Still completely missing her deathbed confession.
I think it was figurative not literal.
What was the dark confession?
CLICKBAIT
@@lindabenny4454 yes, I won’t bother looking at this channel again.
She lost her teeth think that's it
A lot of human beings believe that beauty and money are everything. However, this story is a prime example that it isn't and the fact it certainly cannot buy love. Despite this, some people, will kill for the love of money, and in the end they are still not happy, and die a lonely death. I realize I would rather have God's love and peace of mind than be rich. You cannot take it with you and beauty fades.
Shalom.
I totally agree it’s also true that when you marry for money you really earn every penny!
Absolutely got that right.
It wasn’t her money so she wasn’t buying anything but clothes. Paley bought plenty of love.
Beauty isn’t acquired, you have it or not. Tired of the average making it some moral matter because they didn’t hit the genetic jackpot.
@@elizabethclaiborne6461cmon her and her sisters were NOT genetically beautiful! 😂 they were pretty enhanced by glamor and money
I'm 70 yrs old now and I discovered the 'spiritual' side of life about 40 years ago! I've never had much $$$ but I've been relatively happy over time but I appreciate God's love more, the older I get! Luckily society is only about 99.9% FAKE BS! L0L
The sisters were quite homely. I don't understand why they have always been touted for their beauty. Babe learned how to style herself and benefited greatly from facial reconstruction but by today's standards would not have been defined by her appearance.
Yes overpraised perhaps but at least didn't have that face full of botox & the phony puffed up ugly lips.
I agree. They were quite homely. I don't get everyone fawning over Babe's beauty.
Different standards back then i imagine.
They back then where the best of society.. TODAYS BEUTY IS PLASIC AND SURGERY FAKE
She certainly was not a great beauty. She may have had style and money to indulge that style but in my opinion she was definitely not beautiful.
My husband was my soulmate . . . smart and funny, kind and gentle . . . I wouldn't have traded him for all the jewels in the world!
I'm sorry for your loss.
Thank you :o) @@Smorss2011
Same with me on all fronts. I'm sorry for your loss.
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you were very fortunate, mine was an 'old' man if you get what I mean, , yet only 3 years older than me, I was lonely every day of the 14 years I was married to him, I think he was a narcissist but in those days, that word wasn't used...an abuser, and I didn't even like him never mind anything else...
What was the shocking secret that Babe Paley confessed while dying? Gilligan's Island was her favorite show and she did not want it cancelled. However, husband William cancelled it anyway, although ratings were good.
Tina is my cousin!
@KingOfFuh Actually, Babe's favourite show was 'Gunsmoke', and when it was in danger of being axed for the 1967-68 season, Bill Paley cancelled 'Gilligan's Island' and one other half-hour show to make time for it. 'Gunsmoke' would go on to run for another 7 seasons.
Thank you ''KingOFuh'' ... I am agreeing with you 100%!! The title was the absolute worst CLICK~BAIT come on to get you to watch this story. Shame on them🤥🤮😖🤥
@@AdrienneMintI named my cat Ginger after her character; love her!
@@SunnyCarnivore wow! That is so sweet and i will make sure she knows that!❤️
Beauty standards change. Plus it’s sometimes difficult to assess beauty from pictures. There are so many reports from her contemporaries regarding her beauty that leads me to believe there was something magnetic about her that we don’t see in pictures.
I think it's something about the way people carry themselves. Head held high, smiling, not worrying about gossip. It's the strength with grace
Charm and charisma. The way people are ombined with the looks rather tannjust the looks I think
Great video!
Babe seems to have lived the same empty, loveless life as Wallis Simpson. Sad.
Wallis was nothing like Babe. Wallace was uncaring, androgynous sexually, and just wanted to be FAMOUS. She did everything she could do to be noticed, but it didn't work. She and her husband were great admirers of Adolf Hitler.
No one in the royal family liked her. You also have to realize that she was divorced and in that time in history that was a huge no-no!!
The Prince was a weak man and she had him wrapped around her finger.
Homer's mom?
I do feel somewhat sorry for Babe, Wallace Simpson no sympathy
Capote was NEVER a fiction writer. He was always a story embellish-er. He could hear a story, or live a story, and then tweak it for dramatic flamboyance or ironic effect. But he never had the inventive mind for actual fiction. The girls were a story trove for Truman who did not have to invent anything or give a story a theme. He simply had to amuse them long enough to spill.
Isn't it amazing how beauty standards change from generation to generation? I mean, she was obviously an attractive woman, but beautiful...? Well, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, I guess.
@marthaj67, I agree. She wasn't beautiful, but her total exquisite elegance made her eye catching. She, along with the other swans were not unique. They were the standard high society women.
Try to find a real beauty now, without all those tattoos all over her, is rare.
Babe Paley was photogenic, had impeccable fashion sense and was from the upper classes. BTW, the first "buxom blonde" that appeared in the doc was Jayne Mansfield with Tom Ewell in The Girl Can't Help It in 1956. Marilyn Monroe appeared next.
The hairdos and makeup of the time were not attractive on any woman. Besides, some beautiful women are not particularly photogenic.
What was the deathbed revelation? Just Click Bait?
Exactly.
Thank you! This is why I read the comments first...
Exactly.
Thanks for the heads up. Really hate that.
She finally said what a sh*t her husband was, after years of saying nothing and doing everything to appease him.
"Women" is the plural of "woman". It's very odd to hear a narration that makes this mistake multiple times.
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You can never truly judge somebody’s beauty based off of old footage and pictures you’d have to see the individual in person. Beauty truly does shine through, and she had ir
50 pounds of SPACKLE on her kisser is NOT beauty in any way shape or form! EVERYTHING about her is...FAKE! Just like the rest of them....
Title is misleading
They're so worried about what others are thinking and saying of them that they all look truly unhappy. Their so call rich, glamours and famous lifestyles are just so pathetic. I wouldn't have that lifestyle for anything. I purchased my dresses from JC Penny's and my blue jeans and T-shirts from Walmart. I'm very, very happy with my down to earth life with real friends and family.
We know that now don't we! But back then patriarchy still ruled and men are still trying to keep us down
cathy...actually, I read long ago that Babe Paley was notorious for finding original decorative items (pillows, tablecloths, vases etc) at five-and-dime's like Woolworth's. She also said the jackets, slacks and blouses, in the bargain basement at Filene's Dept Store, fit her the best. Truman Capote said he learned from MsPaley to never ever buy new furniture. Buy used & cheap...and have it fabulously redecorated.
@@marvinbone1379interesting. A real furniture flipper
Truman Capote was such a slimy, creepy little worm. I'm surprised anyone trusted him with anything.
CZ Guest was one of only two swans who did not cut Capote out of her life; he had not included her story in that chapter of the never-published Answered Prayers. Her view was "what did they (the swans) expect?" Guest had never shared her secrets with the writer. Capote did not include Lee Radziwill's story. either. They had become less close in recent years.
@@mphrdldn I would have to agree with CZ Guest.
Now it's been 4 times. Having fun, TH-cam?
I have tried twice to clarify I am referring to Truman Capote. Grrrr YT
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Agree. I never liked him or could see what these women saw on him? Joanne Carson (Johnny's ex) is purposely buried with him as her best friend?
@dee1579 I've never heard that! Wow. For the life of me, I wonder what it was about him that made his presence so attractive to these women. Yuck.
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She looks like a generic 50's executive secretary, and uncomfortably close to Betty Crocker! Not an extraordinary beauty, or an extraordinary anything.
Perfect ivory skin, thick dark hair, eyes as big as saucers, thin and tall like a high fashion model. She was not the girl next door
Looks aren't indicative of who someone is inside, you never knew her and she was not "anything" but a traumatized human being...how dare you devaluate another human being!
Perfectionism is akin to ocd
She was elegant.
Babe lived a sad life! Horrible mother, too I guess.
I had to familiarize myself with this story so I looked
up Capote, a little before my time, but I’m guessing her life was very much like any other high society of the day. Still, what was written was scathing. Small potatoes compared to what some can unleash on social media today…sad, really.
thumbnail click-bait: what confession?
What a douchey thing for Capote to do. He knew her well and must’ve known she would feel humiliated and betrayed.
Capote would have made an excellent addition to the Biden cabal.
Maybe he wanted her to feel the way she treated him….
@@RogerDulyWell, he ruined his life as a result. And he realized that very quickly. He tried to undo the havoc he wreaked- but nothing would ever undo the humiliation and betrayal Babe Paley suffered.
gays can be misogynists as well.
@@janebond8342that's an understatement
You say maybe Babe won, because Bill never remarried. Sounds to me more like those women he didn't marry won.
SHE WAS BEAUTIFUL IN HER TIME AS SOCIALITE. BEAUTY ALWAYS DEFINE TIME
I could tell you were giving us a candid appraisal of Babe and look forward to watching your others. Thanks, a new subscriber
Beautiful woman, lovely presence, wonderful manners, thank you for the video.
the plural of woman is women.
The word woman is a singular noun that refers to one female adult person, as in I gave my papers to the woman behind the counter. The plural of woman is women, as in Three women were waiting at the bus stop.
Examples of women and woman in a sentence
To test whether we have grasped this irregular noun, let’s look at some example sentences that use the words woman and women.
The role of Hamlet was played by a woman.
The Amazons were a tribe of warrior women.
Two women in raincoats stood next to the woman with an umbrella.
The French monarchy was never ruled by a woman, but the English monarchy has had several women wear the crown.
In life we take risks.
In order to gain something in life we must give up something.
Very well told. Good narrative. Thank you.😊
Capote was such a creepy little man. I can't see what she saw in him.
Capote loved to gain the trust of the Swans all the while pitting, manipulating, using and just utterly dishonest. He loved to destroy these women whenever he wanted and when he was done with them. Strange little man.
So there was no confession? Creepy Truman Capote outed the state of her marriage in a book. An interesting video nevertheless.
Truman didn't ruin her life, her husband did.
No, she did.
Both men had a negative impact on her life. But agree you are responding for your own level of content. Notice I didn’t use that misnomer for life….happy!
I think for that day and age she was stunning. At least when she was younger. ❤
I think she was much more elegant as she aged
She was very expensively dressed and decked out in jewelry that the average woman couldn't afford but beautiful...no! I've seen better looking women in a supermarket.
@@user-vf3zi6we3g the standards of beauty changes with the generations,
I do not think the extreme & overblown breasts, hips, lips, eyebrows, hair extensions, eyelashes, 2" nails
will age well. Future generations may well wonder if Earth was invaded by aliens in the 2000s looking back on
our current deplorable 'beauties'.
The more I research her, the more I fall in love with her. She was the epitome of class and dignity. If only she stopped smoking before it was too late
I read what a critic said about Babe Paley which read something like "the only thing wrong with BP is that she is perfect in everyway😊
When You Live A Life Of Waste...You Can't Expect To Be Fully Happy.
I don't understand...what was her death bed confession? I've never heard of this woman until this video.
She spoke up to her husband finally. Told him she'd done too much for him. Didn't live her own life. Women didn't do much of that in her time, especially if your husband financed your whole living. Women didn't even get their own credit cards until 1974 in the US.
@@buzzwafflethat’s exaggerating
@@buzzwaffleagreed and yes women were very subjugated... So sad!!
This could have been a good video, but the title is clickbait.
I have never heard of this woman. Working in end of life facilities, nursing homes, you hear the worst things in the world.
It is very sad and it takes a lot out of you
I lost all faith in humanity
Thank you for sharing this story.
So what was the THING that she revealed on her deathbed? Or are we talking about how she gave her husband a mouthful in a room full of people?
In my apartment library I found a book on Babe Paley and her sisters. I had never heard of them although I knew the Paley name. Interesting that now there is a movie documenting her relationship with Capita and several other socialites of the time. Money definitely attracts money be it old money, new money, or I just got lucky and married it!
Sounds like narcissism all the way around.
Great story! Thanks for sharing. Very excited for the new show now!
Us too!
Seems to have too much clickbait.
She was beautiful on the outside, but her life was a mess. She married twice but l think her unions were more about convenience, obsession and approval than any form of love.. Good husbands are rare, it seems. And, as always, the children suffer .
She lived as Society expected during that era. So glad things ahev changed.
That attitude was very typical of that era. Babe was just one year older than my mother who died in 1997. Snobbery in the end destroys and is so empty. These days the form of snobbery is the cancel culture.
Plus wokism.
She looks like a completely different woman in many of these pictures. It's probably her makeup, hair style and her replaced teeth.
Makeup is what it says: make up for what you don't have. So, if her new face was expertly painted on, she might've looked amazing or maybe she looked much better with much less of the paint, which often is the case.
But the beauty comes from the within and usually the very kind and modest women look the most beautiful without any makeup. I had a friend like that who was like a quiet, sweet angel and so beautiful, it was hard not to stare at her. 😇
In my opinion Babe PaIey wasn't all that good-looking, especially given her negative personality. And I always wonder how some women can consider their daughter as competition. Weird. What a shallow person.
A lot of women kept jewels at a vault (bank). It was a matter of insurance...getting insurance on them and keeping it, so. Same if you have priceless works of art. If you want to insure...say a vase, you can't just keep it anywhere you want to...well I suppose you could, but premiums go up
This story is just further proof that money and beauty does not mean your life is perfect. The face that the social status was her main concern is just so sad. I always laugh a little when I hear anyone obsess over their social status.
And now we have social media, these people have always, preened around wanted and needs to be obsessed over. Lol
Glad to see what she and others really looked like.
People always assume if someone has beauty & wealth, they must have the perfect life.
Most of those "perfect" people have miserable lives.
Aside from the click bait title, I enjoyed the video.
As a teenager, I love T. Capote, his novels & his Swans.
Where was the dramatic deathbed confession? She told him off. In public. That's it?
Well since she never did it was dramatic end to her life
Mark 8:34 “Then he called the crowd to him along with his disciples and said: “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. 35 For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me and for the gospel will save it. 36 What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? 37 Or what can anyone give in exchange for their soul?”
so where is the big confession ??
There’s a strange trend I’ve noticed on TH-cam in the past few years (including in this video) where the host pronounces the word “women” like the singular, “woman” (“WUH-mun”). The correct pronunciation of the word “women” (the plural form) is “WHIM-en”.
Yes, very annoying. I think it's because the robot voices they use aren't programmed for the correct pronunciation.
@@bcwiss LOL. That's pathetic. I think they should fire the stupid machines, and hire trainable human narrators.
@@bcwiss😂no it's how woke do it. Even conservatives are doing it
Bots. technology and AI are taking over. Get used to it. Humans are out of jobs and are destroying life as we know it.
Ok now, I just have to watch the new show on FX! I didn't even know what it was about, and it's like you read my mind!! Love the channel!!
Let us know what you think about the show!
What Is the name of the show please. I live in the UK
@kissingcandy1 the name is Feud : Truman vs The Swans. I caught it here in the states on Hulu but it's an FX show
@Factinate watched the first two episodes and I am hooked. Your episode today helped me understand the swans better! Thank you
What an amazing woman to have suffered so much so gracefully. Physical pain does tend to bring out the truths of one's suffering.
She reminds me of some "star quality" people. How hard to live with your whole life based on lies and have no succor.
She had class and monies but at what cost?
PS Where's the death bed confession?
‼Stay tuned for Deathbed Confession: Part 2‼
Otherwise, very enjoyable mini-doc. It would have been perfect, had I not been waiting for something that wasn't going to happen.
It still amazes me how everyone in that era smoked so much
And everyone in this era smokes crack or snorts coke. Same dif......
Nicotine + Coffee, can diminish ur appetite. Plus the constant oral gratification of smoking substitutes the real desire for chewing/eating, like a cow chewing a cub, it placates the nervous, obsessive mind.
??? No confession that made the room dark?
I don't think any of the three sisters were particularly attractive, would have liked to have seen them without all the makeup. All the sisters seem to have been high class grifters. Feel sorry for their kids.
Not grifters though. Socialites had family money, that's what made them socialites. Just as Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis and her sister Lee (Princess) Radziwill were reared and educated to marry very rich and successful men. Grace Kelly the actress and later Princess, was from a rich socialite Philadelphia family and ended up as Princess Grace of Monaco. No accident.
I never saw her as a victim… she play the game win and got her prize . I heard that story as a kid and listen to it now still think she play victim very well.
First of all, she’s not that drop down gorgeous as this video claims. Also, just about any woman with all that money and time available could look and become very attractive and beautiful. In other words, take away the money, time and social status and she’s just so so.
That's the difference between being able to create beauty and buying it. Money shows but doesn't glow without those who have the gift to create it. beauty.
She was very pretty for the time period.
Fascinating! Thank you
Dod i miss it!? what was the confection??
You mean confession.
se said what a creep her was and not a nice man.
Baked Alaska, but they never said in the video.
There is alot of society women who ended up like this person...all that glitters is not gold....
Poor Babe. What a horrid accident. She sort of wafted through later life in exquisitely fashionable clothes and became a fashion “influencer.” She was one of the “ladies who lunch” at the Four Seasons in NYC. Her only great love was Truman Capote. It was a love-friendship. He made women feel as if they were not only haute fashion, but culturally hip. If you hung out with a successful writer like Tru, you were more than a dress or a mansion. You were smart and even intellectual. Which the “Swans” were not, particularly. Truman gave them that cachet. Secretly, he looked down on (and was jealous of) them.
I agree with "Truman gave them that cachet." None of them were bred to be intellectual, to discover who they really were or be authentic; they were bred to attract a rich society husband. Lee Radziwill was a good example of this as she felt overshadowed by her sister Jackie who WAS intellectual. Capote knew this and built her up. (I "followed" Lee during the final years of her life.)
Read the book on B.P. almost 2 decades ago...same for T.C. (biography and his own book) and as usual anything we read online is lacking. Lots left out and some outright decrepincies. For instance Capote was shunned not only by Paley's circle,but all NY society leaving him a broken man the rest of his life. He was not a very nice man. He had a strange childhood,tho not abusive. So does half the world and most people do not end up turning on a friend as he did even as a young teen. I don't think we can deny his tremendous writing talents. "In Cold Blood"was a nonfiction masterpiece. Another,my favorite short story,is "Tiny Coffins". It's been couple of decades,but am pretty sure that is title. For anyone interested I found it in a book that was the complete collection of his short stories. Every one of them very readable.
You nailed it. The Swans were all show...middlebrow, mildly cultured but most people didn't see that.
What did she say in her deathbed????????????waiting for the impacting end!!!🤔🤔🤔
Well what did she utter on her deathbed that was so outrageous? You never got to that.
An example of her class and time
Her father was one of the greatest neurosurgeons in the 20th century.
Shame what a pitiful life. Imagine to exist just to host "perfect" dinner parties
Shrug;
Boring
Sounds like a fun goal, like planning the perfect vacation.
WOW!! Had no idea all that was going on behind the scenes!! absolutely fascinating!
I read the book, "The Swan's", and I had a completely different take on Babe. Everyone loved her, her husband was a total jerk. Finally when he realized she was dying he felt terrible and couldn't do enough to please her. Truman absolutely adored her and had no idea why all of the Swan's would dislike him after his awful article in Esquire. Babe was very hurt, but because she felt sorry for him, did come around to being kind to him again. Not the other woman!!! That article about the Swan's was the beginning of Truman's decline in society and life in general! He became a major alcoholic which eventually took his life. Babe sounded like a truly good person and a kind soul. Thanks.
A truly good person that emotionally abandoned her children? Ha.
@@MeeshyMish You are right about her children, but thank goodness they did do quite well without her. A lot of us do well in life without perfect Mothering?
@@susanvotroubek7440 thats beside my point; "a truly good person and a kind soul" as you called her would not have been that way to her children. Imo she sounded like a horrible woman that only cared about all the wrong things.
@@MeeshyMish ok you have a good point! Maybe she was just nice to people who didn't really count!
I read about her daughter who she really neglected but, she turned out to be a very educated, powerful woman!
She was head of huge corporations,
maybe the only thing her Mom did right was hire decent , kind people who were good substitute Mother figures.
Have a good day 🙏.
In those days rich or poor it was all about vanity and what would people think. The only people who would suffer were the children.
Just like today?😮
What a great video . I’m so glad i found this page . I will continue to watch. ❤
Well, there's one.
Fascinating story of a world and people I know nothing of.
And don't want to know....
She actually became more beautiful as she aged.
Misleading title-no deathbed confession.
Connery & Bacaal dancing in one of those pictures.
I guess attractiveness was different in those days? Her or her sisters were not the least bit pretty.
Kind of brittle looking.
Attractiveness was not different--look at the movie stars and models of the time. If you had lots of money and social connections, and looked okay, the papers called you "beautiful".
I suppose at one time long ago, this sort of person would have been a prize turkey. Nowadays we’ve had women astronauts, brilliant scientists, physicians, inventors, painters, musicians, etc.
For my two cents, one night at a Callas performance of Norma would be worth 100 “Babes”. They really accomplish nothing in life that needs to be put down in history.
She got what she wanted. Surprise! It didn’t make her happy.
It rarely does.
I loved your video. Kudos. You're getting some negative responses from some jerks. It's unfortunate. Perhaps they should produce their own videos. I think you did a fabulous job.
She didn't look happy. It was rare to see her smile..
Never have understood women who are competitive with their daughters.
Hmmm, Happily, I've never ever even heard of this woman! I feel sorry for her children!
you must be very young not to have heard of her.
I heard and read about her in society pages when I lived in New York in the seventies.
Wow I'm glad I read the comments first before watching! Stop with the click bait