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...1930s, many a U.S. housewife without so much as a Cadillac to call her own wrung her hands in anguish over the plight of a pathetic, ten-year-old waif named Gloria Vanderbilt. Fatherless at two, Gloria was heir to a trust fund totaling some $3,000,000, and nobody seemed to love her for her wide-eyed, wispy self alone. In one of the most relentlessly publicized custody fights of all time, little Gloria's mother, the gadabout "big Gloria" Morgan Vanderbilt, and her aunt, the redoubtable, socialite art lover, Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, traded haymakers of innuendo...
Despite a petition signed by 300 "East Side Mothers," urging the trial judge to "give this mother back to her child," the court sided with Gloria's aunt. Under her care Gloria did in time grow up and did indeed marry. At the age of 17, a dark-eyed beauty with a sulky mouth in the Katharine Hepburn style, she swept down the aisle of a Santa Barbara church on the arm of an obscure, two-fisted, once-divorced actor's agent and became...
...Cicco. "What can one say about a first marriage," gushed Gloria, "except that it's wonderful?" The marriage, so oddly and prophetically labeled "first," lasted nearly three years and three months...
Furtive Publicity. In 1945, at the age of 21, with the ink still wet on her final decree from Di Cicco, Gloria embarked upon her second marriage-this time with Conductor Leopold Stokowski, then 63, a divorced veteran of two previous marriages and of a well-publicized journey (to Tunis, Stockholm, and Ravello's Villa Cimbrone) with Greta Garbo. Like Garbo and Leopold themselves, Gloria had by this time developed a considerable talent for gaining publicity by seeming to avoid it. Her furtive elopement with the famed maestro from the town of Truckee, Calif, was attended by at least...
Nevertheless, during her first few years of marriage as Mme. Stokowska (she was very fussy about the Polish feminine ending), Gloria lived in relative obscurity...