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Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story is a american film of genre Drama directed by Charles Jarrott released in USA on 16 november 1987 with Farrah Fawcett
Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story (1987)
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Add to a movie listPoor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story is a 1987 television biographical drama starring Farrah Fawcett. The film chronicles the life of Barbara Hutton, an extremely wealthy but troubled American socialite. Released as both a television movie and a mini series, the film won a Golden Globe Award for Best Miniseries or Television Film. Fawcett earned her fifth Golden Globe Award nomination, for Best Actress in a Miniseries of Television Film.
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The film begins in 1917 with the opening of the 1000th Woolworth's store, known as the Woolworth Tower. Barbara is seen with her family as her grandfather, Frank Woolworth, delivers a speech. After the commemoration, Frank expresses his disappointment to his daughter Edna that her husband Franklin was not present to celebrate the opening of the new store. Edna acknowledges that her husband is a philanderer, drunk, and gambler but replies that he still happens to be Barbara's father. Later that night in their apartment at the Plaza hotel, Edna leaves Barbara a note under her pillow, then walks back to her room and drinks poison. Barbara wakes up to find her mother dead.Actors
Farrah Fawcett
(Barbara Hutton)
Fairuza Balk
(Barbara (Age 12))
David Ackroyd
(Graham Mattison)
Nicholas Clay
(Prince Alexis Mdivani)
Burl Ives
(F.W. Woolworth)
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