Sentences with phrase «wealthy socialites»

This practice allows Sherman to masquerade herself as various characters, including housewives, actresses, historical figures, clowns, wealthy socialites, or a doctor and nurse — breaking down stereotypes of societal depictions of women and men.

In the 1970s, Warhol was a regular at the New York disco Studio 54, and he received hundreds of portrait commissions from wealthy socialites, musicians, and film stars.

Penelope Wilhern, born to wealthy socialites, is afflicted by the Wilhern spell that can only be broken when she finds love.

Director David Robert Mitchell's follow - up to his breakout movie, the creepily elegant horror film «It Follows,» is something of a change of pace: When a young man (Garfield) befriends a mysterious neighbor at his Los Angeles apartment complex (Keough), and she disappears the next day, he sets off on a surreal search for her through a La - La Land populated, in the words of the film's publicity material, by «dog killers, aspiring actors, glitter - pop groups, nightlife personalities, «it» girls, memorabilia hoarders, masked seductresses, homeless gurus, reclusive songwriters, sex workers, wealthy socialites, topless neighbors and the shadowy billionaires floating above (and underneath) it all.»

Hudson plays Eleanor Strubing, a wealthy socialite who is a key character in the film.

Soon reunited with their newly released leader, Accion Mutante plots the elaborate wedding reception kidnapping of Patricia, a wealthy socialite.

A wealthy socialite, she had inherited the paper in the early»60s, after her husband killed himself, but she was never taken seriously — and, as a result, rarely took herself seriously.

As the nation teeters on the brink of WWII, a nearly bankrupt NAACP sends Thurgood Marshall (Chadwick Boseman) to conservative Connecticut to defend a black chauffeur against his wealthy socialite employer in a sexual assault and attempted murder trial that quickly became tabloid fodder.

In her second collaboration with French director Olivier Assayas, Kristen Stewart plays a personal shopper to a wealthy socialite, with a sideline as an amateur ghost hunter who's searching for her dead twin brother.

Lucci currently stars in the Lifetime series, «Devious Maids,» produced by ABC Studios, as the wealthy socialite, Genevieve Delatour.

At the center is the love story of wealthy socialite Carol Aird (Cate Blanchett) and young department store clerk Therese Belivet (Rooney Mara).

Side - stepping the mean - spirited possibilities of portraying such a screwy figure, Giannoli crafts an appealing portrait and has the good sense to neither lionize nor demonize the wealthy socialite.

Jenkins was a wealthy socialite who supported musical causes and loved to sing.

The Swans of Fifth Avenue By Melanie Benjamin Bantam • $ 16 • ISBN 9780345528704 The author of bestselling historical fiction about Anne Morrow Lindbergh (The Aviator's Wife) and the Gilded Age (The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb) turns to a more recent era in this captivating novel about the friendship between writer Truman Capote and wealthy socialite Babe Paley.

Kiehl is currently the Nancy and Fred Poses Curator at the Whitney, which was founded in 1931 by wealthy socialite Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney.

The apathetic young men in Hernan Bas's enchanting recent paintings in «Bright Young Things» could be the same figures cavorting on the Rich Kids of Instagram page, wealthy socialite types not shy about their lavish lifestyles.

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(The impetus for the article, apparently, was the irritation Warren» a wealthy Boston socialite» felt at seeing his name in the papers.)

And in boxing, a sport that has tolerated the presence of female promoters on more than one occasion, Josephine Abercrombie, a wealthy Houston socialite, is making headway.

Synopsis: After her marriage to a wealthy businessman (Alec Baldwin) collapses, New York socialite Jasmine (Cate Blanchett) flees to San Francisco and the mo...

In Blue Jasmine, Cate Blanchett plays a wealthy New York socialite who has it all, loses it all and ends up delusional on a park bench.

But then, out of the blue he was offered the role of a lifetime, playing a supporting role to Meryl Streep's lead in the eponymous Florence Foster Jenkins, the biographical story of a tone - deaf but wealthy New York socialite with a dream to be a world class soprano.

Former wealthy Manhattan socialite Jasmine (Cate Blanchett) is the Blanche character, a tall, blonde, Hermès bag - carrying emotional steamroller who flattens everything of which she doesn't approve and who only submits to lower the eschelon when must needs.

As beautiful as the film looks, it essays a time of harsh conformity and misplaced morality, when divorce is a rarity, even amongst wealthy New York socialites.

Sir William McCordle (Michael Gambon) and his wife Lady Sylvia (Kristin Scott Thomas) are a pair of wealthy British socialites who have invited a variety of friends, relatives, and acquaintances to their mansion in the country for a weekend of hunting and relaxation.

At the film's start, he is in a relationship with a wealthy Manhattan socialite (Mary - Louise Parker) to whom he's unfaithful.

When the 1930's New York socialite loses her wealthy husband unexpectedly, she takes over his expedition to China.

Cate Blanchett plays Jasmine, a once - wealthy New York socialite who's had the pillars supporting her fragile identity kicked out from beneath her.

A wealthy man tries to convince a bored socialite that they had an affair years earlier.

And Marshall, who died in 1993, found a lulu in the case of Mrs. Eleanor Strubing (Kate Hudson), a wealthy, Greenwich, Connecticut socialite who accused her black chauffeur and butler, Joseph Spell (Sterling K. Brown), of raping her and then driving to a bridge and attempting murder by throwing her off it.

Ever since 12 - year - old Clare Fitzgerald's father died, she and her wealthy, socialite mother have been on the move.

And one, Kimmie — who knows that the convicted murderer was nothing more than a paid scapegoat for his wealthy friends — is living on the streets, furtively plotting her revenge on the band of sociopathic socialites.

A Brief History of the ASPCA: Prompted by the severe beating of a work horse on the streets of New York City, on February 8, 1866, Henry Bergh, a socialite and the son of a wealthy New York shipbuilder, gave an impassioned speech at New York City's Clinton Hall calling for the rights of animals everywhere and the establishment of an organization to enforce and preserve these rights.

Face it: St. Barth's is for wealthy Parisian socialites, spoiled Swiss teens, gay and straight scions of industry, and Hollywood royalty.

Hampstead is one of London's most wealthiest neighbourhoods with residents that range from high society socialites to famous actors, music artists and celebrities.

Heirston is rather famous in wealthy circles as a top tier art advisor and as a socialite.

It was founded in 1931 by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (1875 — 1942), a wealthy and prominent American socialite and art patron after whom the museum is named.