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Gloria Vanderbilt: An Heir of Style
Portrait of the "Jeans Queen" who has endured seven decades of fame, including the great custody battle which raged over her when she was America's "poor little rich girl" in the 1930s. Gloria and designer Bill Blass are interviewed.
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Hedda Hopper: Hollywood's Gossip Queen
Chronicles the career of the controversial Hollywood columnist who became one of the first queens of gossip. Includes her failed acting career and how she turned to writing; her long, bitter feud with rival Louella Parsons; her love of hats; and the power of her column, which she used to make stars and blacklist political enemies.
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Mary Kay
Chronicles the amazing rise to success and wealth of cosmetics queen Mary Kay Ash. As a young woman, Kay quit her job when she was regularly passed over for promotion by men and began her own cosmetics sales company. Beginning with just a $5,000 investment, her business grew into a multi-national company with over $2 billion in annual sales by the time she died in 2001, and her philosophy of "praising people to success" helped many women on her sales force to realize their own dreams of success.
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Princesses of Monaco
The tiny principality of Monaco, ruled by the Grimaldi Family for more than 700 years, became world famous in 1956 when Prince Rainier married American film star Grace Kelly.
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Pat Nixon: Behind the Smile
Profile of the First Lady who disliked politics, but supported her husband Richard through the many crises of his turbulent career. Here is the real Pat Nixon--the perfect political wife who smiled in public and said nothing controversial, but who liked to kick back with a cigarette and highball in private.
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Laura Bush
She is a Cinderella, of sorts: once a librarian, now First Lady. Interviews with Laura Bush, the President, and Bush family members and friends highlight this portrait. We go behind the public image to meet the real Laura Bush--the young woman involved in a fatal car accident, the new bride struggling to get pregnant, the reserved woman who agreed to support her husband in his public career, and now the polished national leader.
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Danielle Steel
She is the queen of romantic fiction but parts of her real-life story could have been made into a movie. She had a lonely childhood, and later in life multiple miscarriages, marriages to not one but two convicted felons - one of which she met and married in prison - and the loss of her son to suicide. Her professional story, though, has been one of unprecedented success. From an education in New York and Europe and a background in public relations and advertising, Ms. Steel turned to writing in the early `70s. She wrote her first book at twenty; her fourth was a bestseller and she has been a fixture on bestseller lists ever since.
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Reese Witherspoon
A look at the career of the privileged daughter of a surgeon and a nurse/college professor who started out in local commercials in Nashville but quickly graduated to Hollywood. Early roles established her as a starlet unafraid to take on edgier parts, and her winning performances in Election, Legally Blonde and Sweet Home Alabama made her a bankable star. Then Witherspoon became true Hollywood royalty when she brought home the Oscar for her memorable portrayal of June Carter Cash in Walk the Line.