Babe Paley Was Beautiful And Damaged

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  • Опубликовано: 20 сен 2024
  • From the time she was in the cradle, Babe Paley’s parents wanted great things for their little girl. Well, she certainly got them-but it came at a heartbreakingly high price. A debutante at 18 years old and a high-society wife at 25, Babe had New York City in the palm of her hand. Yet the bigger they are, the harder they fall.
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  • @Factinate
    @Factinate  7 месяцев назад +109

    What did you make of Babe Paley? Let us know your thoughts below in the comments👇!

    • @Swelte
      @Swelte 7 месяцев назад +14

      she was stunning.

    • @clickha
      @clickha 7 месяцев назад +8

      I want to learn more.

    • @ilivebears
      @ilivebears 7 месяцев назад +62

      Where was the deathbed confession that silenced the room?

    • @russell4824
      @russell4824 7 месяцев назад +16

      Did you post this crap

    • @JediJan
      @JediJan 7 месяцев назад +18

      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.

  • @PoutinePete
    @PoutinePete 7 месяцев назад +229

    Her world, and everyone in it, seemed so empty, superficial and depressing.

    • @glorianardini8742
      @glorianardini8742 7 месяцев назад +11

      Agree--more to life than fashion!

    • @deborahcurtis1385
      @deborahcurtis1385 7 месяцев назад +26

      The worst bit is how she neglected her children and was jealous of her own daughter. Nasty.

    • @lotusgdess
      @lotusgdess 7 месяцев назад +1

      Exactement! Ick.

    • @BeverlyMurphy-ii2wp
      @BeverlyMurphy-ii2wp 6 месяцев назад +3

      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 🤔

    • @GoldenAgeCelebrities-jb6hu
      @GoldenAgeCelebrities-jb6hu 3 месяца назад

      That's right, things aren't as flashy as people look at them

  • @cydkriletich6538
    @cydkriletich6538 7 месяцев назад +471

    I find it interesting how wealth and social status can often sway the consensus into what constitutes “beautiful.”

    • @LogansGigi991
      @LogansGigi991 7 месяцев назад +8

      Me too!

    • @azillliasmith2734
      @azillliasmith2734 7 месяцев назад +18

      Paris Hilton

    • @user-hs4xi7cv1u
      @user-hs4xi7cv1u 7 месяцев назад +20

      You said it in a much kinder and gentler way than I ever could. Thank you.

    • @elizabethclaiborne6461
      @elizabethclaiborne6461 7 месяцев назад +14

      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.

    • @thefirm9746
      @thefirm9746 7 месяцев назад

      @@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.

  • @nikkibest5010
    @nikkibest5010 7 месяцев назад +147

    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 ".

    • @christinebuckingham8369
      @christinebuckingham8369 7 месяцев назад +15

      Back in those days, especially in “high society” that WAS a pretty shocking thing to do.

    • @judy9123
      @judy9123 7 месяцев назад +4

      Yep Christine. Especially since she had never criticized him - doing so harshly in front of the people closest to him was extremely bold.

    • @sharir.8373
      @sharir.8373 6 месяцев назад

      Click$h*+. Total. Only shocking in those days…and everyone already knew anyway.

    • @JenJ2023
      @JenJ2023 5 месяцев назад +1

      I agree

  • @kathleenoneill7414
    @kathleenoneill7414 7 месяцев назад +362

    Still completely missing her deathbed confession.

  • @xcala3038
    @xcala3038 7 месяцев назад +73

    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.

    • @lotusgdess
      @lotusgdess 6 месяцев назад

      Yes overpraised perhaps but at least didn't have that face full of botox & the phony puffed up ugly lips.

    • @kimberlyickes7425
      @kimberlyickes7425 5 месяцев назад +3

      I agree. They were quite homely. I don't get everyone fawning over Babe's beauty.

    • @Suelabrie
      @Suelabrie 5 месяцев назад +2

      Different standards back then i imagine.

    • @pixie_sparkle74
      @pixie_sparkle74 23 дня назад

      They back then where the best of society.. TODAYS BEUTY IS PLASIC AND SURGERY FAKE

  • @rhomo
    @rhomo 7 месяцев назад +164

    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.

  • @sherrycohen1824
    @sherrycohen1824 7 месяцев назад +58

    How awful for her children. At least Amanda made something of her life on her own. She's intelligent, hard-working, and beautiful.

  • @FrankMarter
    @FrankMarter 7 месяцев назад +70

    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.

  • @gidgethrobowski3860
    @gidgethrobowski3860 7 месяцев назад +93

    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.

    • @ryanlewandowsky2077
      @ryanlewandowsky2077 7 месяцев назад +11

      I totally agree it’s also true that when you marry for money you really earn every penny!

    • @cq9882
      @cq9882 7 месяцев назад +5

      Absolutely got that right.

    • @elizabethclaiborne6461
      @elizabethclaiborne6461 7 месяцев назад +3

      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.

    • @truenokill
      @truenokill 7 месяцев назад +9

      ​@@elizabethclaiborne6461cmon her and her sisters were NOT genetically beautiful! 😂 they were pretty enhanced by glamor and money

    • @mr.blackhawk142
      @mr.blackhawk142 7 месяцев назад

      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

  • @Smorss2011
    @Smorss2011 7 месяцев назад +39

    "Women" is the plural of "woman". It's very odd to hear a narration that makes this mistake multiple times.

  • @mirandarights9635
    @mirandarights9635 7 месяцев назад +93

    Babe seems to have lived the same empty, loveless life as Wallis Simpson. Sad.

    • @susanvotroubek7440
      @susanvotroubek7440 7 месяцев назад

      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.

    • @hallertau
      @hallertau 7 месяцев назад +2

      Homer's mom?

    • @francesjohnson3045
      @francesjohnson3045 7 месяцев назад +4

      I do feel somewhat sorry for Babe, Wallace Simpson no sympathy

  • @4gma59
    @4gma59 7 месяцев назад +139

    Truman Capote was such a slimy, creepy little worm. I'm surprised anyone trusted him with anything.

    • @mphrdldn
      @mphrdldn 7 месяцев назад +7

      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.

    • @4gma59
      @4gma59 7 месяцев назад +5

      @@mphrdldn I would have to agree with CZ Guest.

    • @shadowlouise
      @shadowlouise 7 месяцев назад +1

      Now it's been 4 times. Having fun, RUclips?
      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.

    • @sandradee1579
      @sandradee1579 6 месяцев назад +4

      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?

    • @4gma59
      @4gma59 6 месяцев назад +5

      @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.

  • @KingOFuh
    @KingOFuh 7 месяцев назад +230

    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.

    • @AdrienneMint
      @AdrienneMint 7 месяцев назад +15

      Tina is my cousin!

    • @andrewthornhill7042
      @andrewthornhill7042 7 месяцев назад +22

      @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.

    • @marshajacobberger1646
      @marshajacobberger1646 7 месяцев назад +28

      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🤥🤮😖🤥

    • @SunnyCarnivore
      @SunnyCarnivore 7 месяцев назад +4

      ​@@AdrienneMintI named my cat Ginger after her character; love her!

    • @AdrienneMint
      @AdrienneMint 7 месяцев назад +1

      @@SunnyCarnivore wow! That is so sweet and i will make sure she knows that!❤️

  • @marthamarlette1193
    @marthamarlette1193 7 месяцев назад +409

    What was the deathbed revelation? Just Click Bait?

    • @nikkibest5010
      @nikkibest5010 7 месяцев назад +60

      Exactly.

    • @brigittebeltran6701
      @brigittebeltran6701 7 месяцев назад +97

      Thank you! This is why I read the comments first...

    • @gidgethrobowski3860
      @gidgethrobowski3860 7 месяцев назад +28

      Exactly.

    • @ingridbergman-vz7go
      @ingridbergman-vz7go 7 месяцев назад +60

      Thanks for the heads up. Really hate that.

    • @mrmrsmarshall9110
      @mrmrsmarshall9110 7 месяцев назад +66

      She finally said what a sh*t her husband was, after years of saying nothing and doing everything to appease him.

  • @lindaarmstrong2609
    @lindaarmstrong2609 7 месяцев назад +57

    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.

    • @truenokill
      @truenokill 7 месяцев назад +14

      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

    • @delmarmees
      @delmarmees 6 месяцев назад +4

      Charm and charisma. The way people are ombined with the looks rather tannjust the looks I think

    • @amypontious4452
      @amypontious4452 4 месяца назад

      Great video!

  • @tan3713
    @tan3713 7 месяцев назад +140

    Title is misleading

  • @cathydavis9259
    @cathydavis9259 7 месяцев назад +33

    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.

    • @truenokill
      @truenokill 7 месяцев назад +3

      We know that now don't we! But back then patriarchy still ruled and men are still trying to keep us down

    • @marvinbone1379
      @marvinbone1379 7 месяцев назад +4

      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.

    • @notyou9743
      @notyou9743 7 месяцев назад

      @@marvinbone1379interesting. A real furniture flipper

  • @dloadthis1617
    @dloadthis1617 7 месяцев назад +90

    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. 💯
    👍🐸👍

    • @susanhurst3292
      @susanhurst3292 7 месяцев назад +3

      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.

    • @nancyrolfe3033
      @nancyrolfe3033 7 месяцев назад +5

      Sounds like you really have some great experiences therefore great memories! I can only imagine……

    • @shirleycreer4422
      @shirleycreer4422 7 месяцев назад +4

      …do you know Babe’s deathbed confession?

    • @mphrdldn
      @mphrdldn 7 месяцев назад +5

      I adored the Bonwit Teller store in Philadelphia.

    • @truenokill
      @truenokill 7 месяцев назад +3

      Haha yes! Studio 54 days. Those days will never come back. We lived it!

  • @Auntie-Sara
    @Auntie-Sara 7 месяцев назад +50

    ❗️CLICK BAIT - NO CONFESSION❗️

  • @dandeleona4760
    @dandeleona4760 5 месяцев назад +5

    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.

  • @dabeage
    @dabeage 7 месяцев назад +48

    thumbnail click-bait: what confession?

  • @minimaker5600
    @minimaker5600 7 месяцев назад +150

    My husband was my soulmate . . . smart and funny, kind and gentle . . . I wouldn't have traded him for all the jewels in the world!

    • @Smorss2011
      @Smorss2011 7 месяцев назад +12

      I'm sorry for your loss.

    • @minimaker5600
      @minimaker5600 7 месяцев назад

      Thank you :o) @@Smorss2011

    • @LQOTW
      @LQOTW 7 месяцев назад +3

      Same with me on all fronts. I'm sorry for your loss.

    • @ChristineannArnold
      @ChristineannArnold 7 месяцев назад +3

      ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤uh

    • @elainemarten
      @elainemarten 7 месяцев назад +9

      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...

  • @v2krpl37dh
    @v2krpl37dh 7 месяцев назад +15

    You say maybe Babe won, because Bill never remarried. Sounds to me more like those women he didn't marry won.

  • @marthaj67
    @marthaj67 7 месяцев назад +74

    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.

    • @fabergeegg1722
      @fabergeegg1722 7 месяцев назад +9

      @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.

    • @Candy-O1776
      @Candy-O1776 7 месяцев назад +14

      Try to find a real beauty now, without all those tattoos all over her, is rare.

    • @mphrdldn
      @mphrdldn 7 месяцев назад +5

      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.

    • @CatBirdFemme
      @CatBirdFemme 7 месяцев назад +4

      The hairdos and makeup of the time were not attractive on any woman. Besides, some beautiful women are not particularly photogenic.

  • @jacquelineloveselvis
    @jacquelineloveselvis 7 месяцев назад +34

    Capote was such a creepy little man. I can't see what she saw in him.

    • @indychapman
      @indychapman 6 месяцев назад +2

      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.

  • @nessuno9945
    @nessuno9945 7 месяцев назад +62

    She looks like a generic 50's executive secretary, and uncomfortably close to Betty Crocker! Not an extraordinary beauty, or an extraordinary anything.

    • @truenokill
      @truenokill 7 месяцев назад +8

      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

    • @janebond8342
      @janebond8342 7 месяцев назад +4

      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!

  • @richardroberts-jl9sv
    @richardroberts-jl9sv 7 месяцев назад +11

    Truman didn't ruin her life, her husband did.

    • @marknewton6984
      @marknewton6984 7 месяцев назад

      No, she did.

    • @jenjoy3215
      @jenjoy3215 6 месяцев назад

      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!

  • @dakotablue3366
    @dakotablue3366 7 месяцев назад +15

    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

    • @mr.blackhawk142
      @mr.blackhawk142 7 месяцев назад

      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....

  • @CarolStJohn-ev9ry
    @CarolStJohn-ev9ry 7 месяцев назад +25

    She was elegant.

    • @TheJahwana
      @TheJahwana 6 месяцев назад

      Babe lived a sad life! Horrible mother, too I guess.

  • @organiccher64
    @organiccher64 7 месяцев назад +36

    I don't understand...what was her death bed confession? I've never heard of this woman until this video.

    • @buzzwaffle
      @buzzwaffle 7 месяцев назад +2

      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.

    • @notyou9743
      @notyou9743 7 месяцев назад

      @@buzzwafflethat’s exaggerating

    • @terrym9435
      @terrym9435 7 месяцев назад +1

      ​@@buzzwaffleagreed and yes women were very subjugated... So sad!!

  • @songbirdsinging1878
    @songbirdsinging1878 7 месяцев назад +18

    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.

  • @michaeldougherty8344
    @michaeldougherty8344 7 месяцев назад +15

    Beautiful woman, lovely presence, wonderful manners, thank you for the video.

  • @louisep5178
    @louisep5178 7 месяцев назад +33

    Perfectionism is akin to ocd

  • @UATU.
    @UATU. 7 месяцев назад +17

    This could have been a good video, but the title is clickbait.

  • @sexymama1966
    @sexymama1966 7 месяцев назад +12

    So she was the one that kept Gunsmoke on. I'm watching the miniseries and the ladies are very stylish. She's a tough swan!

  • @gidgethrobowski3860
    @gidgethrobowski3860 7 месяцев назад +9

    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.

  • @618B
    @618B 5 месяцев назад +3

    In life we take risks.
    In order to gain something in life we must give up something.

  • @verticegirferd5069
    @verticegirferd5069 7 месяцев назад +55

    What a douchey thing for Capote to do. He knew her well and must’ve known she would feel humiliated and betrayed.

    • @brega6286
      @brega6286 7 месяцев назад

      Capote would have made an excellent addition to the Biden cabal.

    • @RogerDuly
      @RogerDuly 7 месяцев назад +2

      Maybe he wanted her to feel the way she treated him….

    • @judy9123
      @judy9123 7 месяцев назад +5

      ​@@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.

    • @janebond8342
      @janebond8342 7 месяцев назад +6

      gays can be misogynists as well.

    • @elisaastorino2881
      @elisaastorino2881 7 месяцев назад +1

      ​@@janebond8342that's an understatement

  • @athamy26
    @athamy26 3 месяца назад +4

    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

  • @sukijay4990
    @sukijay4990 7 месяцев назад +28

    So there was no confession? Creepy Truman Capote outed the state of her marriage in a book. An interesting video nevertheless.

  • @heidibee501
    @heidibee501 7 месяцев назад +8

    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 .

  • @samdrummond7179
    @samdrummond7179 7 месяцев назад +12

    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?

  • @rebeccalee1065
    @rebeccalee1065 7 месяцев назад +12

    When You Live A Life Of Waste...You Can't Expect To Be Fully Happy.

  • @kcnoha23
    @kcnoha23 7 месяцев назад +29

    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.

  • @atiregramakswoktiw1739
    @atiregramakswoktiw1739 6 месяцев назад +2

    Very well told. Good narrative. Thank you.😊

  • @carolinejones8382
    @carolinejones8382 7 месяцев назад +4

    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😊

  • @secretshaman189
    @secretshaman189 7 месяцев назад +17

    Sounds like narcissism all the way around.

  • @isabelgaynor2589
    @isabelgaynor2589 7 месяцев назад +6

    I could tell you were giving us a candid appraisal of Babe and look forward to watching your others. Thanks, a new subscriber

  • @charmaingibbens6244
    @charmaingibbens6244 7 месяцев назад +12

    Shame what a pitiful life. Imagine to exist just to host "perfect" dinner parties

  • @teresabillings8378
    @teresabillings8378 7 месяцев назад +24

    Where was the dramatic deathbed confession? She told him off. In public. That's it?

    • @truenokill
      @truenokill 7 месяцев назад +1

      Well since she never did it was dramatic end to her life

  • @ocsrc
    @ocsrc 7 месяцев назад +4

    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

  • @VictoriaMaxima
    @VictoriaMaxima 7 месяцев назад +7

    There’s a strange trend I’ve noticed on RUclips 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”.

    • @bcwiss
      @bcwiss 7 месяцев назад +2

      Yes, very annoying. I think it's because the robot voices they use aren't programmed for the correct pronunciation.

    • @shadowlouise
      @shadowlouise 7 месяцев назад

      @@bcwiss LOL. That's pathetic. I think they should fire the stupid machines, and hire trainable human narrators.

    • @benburndred2226
      @benburndred2226 7 месяцев назад +2

      ​@@bcwiss😂no it's how woke do it. Even conservatives are doing it

    • @texasmimi5566
      @texasmimi5566 7 месяцев назад

      Bots. technology and AI are taking over. Get used to it. Humans are out of jobs and are destroying life as we know it.

  • @tedtamada
    @tedtamada 7 месяцев назад +2

    Never have understood women who are competitive with their daughters.

  • @aliciamack9323
    @aliciamack9323 7 месяцев назад +15

    SHE WAS BEAUTIFUL IN HER TIME AS SOCIALITE. BEAUTY ALWAYS DEFINE TIME

  • @marinamartinez6886
    @marinamartinez6886 6 месяцев назад +2

    Glad to see what she and others really looked like.

  • @maryellengrayberg9146
    @maryellengrayberg9146 7 месяцев назад +11

    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!

  • @kimlee1416
    @kimlee1416 7 месяцев назад +5

    Thank you for sharing this story.

  • @pearlcrabby6520
    @pearlcrabby6520 7 месяцев назад +16

    What did she say in her deathbed????????????waiting for the impacting end!!!🤔🤔🤔

  • @dulcarnon
    @dulcarnon 6 месяцев назад +2

    Thumbs down for the lack of a shocking deathbed confession.

  • @sheilagravely5621
    @sheilagravely5621 7 месяцев назад +14

    I think for that day and age she was stunning. At least when she was younger. ❤

    • @poorthing
      @poorthing 7 месяцев назад +4

      I think she was much more elegant as she aged

    • @user-vf3zi6we3g
      @user-vf3zi6we3g 7 месяцев назад +5

      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.

    • @poorthing
      @poorthing 7 месяцев назад

      @@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'.

  • @gayledaniel5901
    @gayledaniel5901 7 месяцев назад +18

    I guess attractiveness was different in those days? Her or her sisters were not the least bit pretty.

    • @LogansGigi991
      @LogansGigi991 7 месяцев назад +4

      Kind of brittle looking.

    • @Liz-sn1mm
      @Liz-sn1mm 6 месяцев назад

      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".

  • @ifyoucanthandletruthdontpost
    @ifyoucanthandletruthdontpost 7 месяцев назад +17

    Beauty is within your soul not just facial looks. IMHO, she was quite the looker.

  • @JR-cj3jm
    @JR-cj3jm 7 месяцев назад +5

    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.

  • @mitchellfelder2420
    @mitchellfelder2420 2 месяца назад +1

    Her father was one of the greatest neurosurgeons in the 20th century.

  • @darcymccattipus908
    @darcymccattipus908 7 месяцев назад +17

    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.

    • @susancrawford5927
      @susancrawford5927 7 месяцев назад +5

      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.

  • @anastasia10017
    @anastasia10017 7 месяцев назад +27

    so where is the big confession ??

  • @robindreweslaino9385
    @robindreweslaino9385 7 месяцев назад +7

    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.

    • @GiveItUpJan
      @GiveItUpJan 7 месяцев назад +1

      And now we have social media, these people have always, preened around wanted and needs to be obsessed over. Lol

  • @sifridbassoon
    @sifridbassoon 7 месяцев назад +11

    It still amazes me how everyone in that era smoked so much

    • @texasmimi5566
      @texasmimi5566 7 месяцев назад

      And everyone in this era smokes crack or snorts coke. Same dif......

    • @itsquitntimeisrael6519
      @itsquitntimeisrael6519 29 дней назад

      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.

  • @gladysclausing8785
    @gladysclausing8785 7 месяцев назад +13

    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.

  • @parischatelet
    @parischatelet 7 месяцев назад +7

    Misleading title-no deathbed confession.

  • @user-ps2nn5pj4g
    @user-ps2nn5pj4g 5 месяцев назад +3

    Never did get the point of 'society'. Seems an awfully hollow existence.

  • @godlygirls62
    @godlygirls62 7 месяцев назад +2

    She actually became more beautiful as she aged.

  • @vannieloumarshall7232
    @vannieloumarshall7232 7 месяцев назад +6

    Fascinating! Thank you

  • @d.l.l.6578
    @d.l.l.6578 7 месяцев назад +9

    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?”

  • @shellyannehan2834
    @shellyannehan2834 6 месяцев назад +3

    Im still waiting for the deathbed confession that shocked people 🤔

  • @fairdose
    @fairdose 7 месяцев назад +23

    I don't find Babe Paley beautiful at all. Long face, and mathematically, she doesn't have a symmetrical face. I find the hype around these socialites is all about everyone else and the media telling us they're beautiful and we're supposed to agree and believe it without question. They had really good grooming, access to the best clothes, accessories , jewels, poise, beauty treatments but I don't see any natural beauty there.

  • @marciagallardo3437
    @marciagallardo3437 7 месяцев назад +15

    Dod i miss it!? what was the confection??

    • @thirstingknowledge
      @thirstingknowledge 7 месяцев назад +4

      You mean confession.

    • @nancy7665
      @nancy7665 7 месяцев назад

      se said what a creep her was and not a nice man.

    • @shadowlouise
      @shadowlouise 7 месяцев назад +1

      Baked Alaska, but they never said in the video.

  • @eleanordefreitas979
    @eleanordefreitas979 7 месяцев назад +13

    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.

  • @clickha
    @clickha 7 месяцев назад +28

    Great story! Thanks for sharing. Very excited for the new show now!

    • @Factinate
      @Factinate  7 месяцев назад +4

      Us too!

    • @dy9278
      @dy9278 7 месяцев назад +4

      Seems to have too much clickbait.

  • @floraline7153
    @floraline7153 6 месяцев назад +2

    They never tell you the "confession" that shocked everyone. What a load of bull.

  • @LiliWhyte
    @LiliWhyte 7 месяцев назад +6

    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.

  • @AKnuth
    @AKnuth 6 месяцев назад +2

    There was no confession that shocked the room into silence. Don't lie.

  • @susanvotroubek7440
    @susanvotroubek7440 7 месяцев назад +6

    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
      @MeeshyMish 7 месяцев назад +5

      A truly good person that emotionally abandoned her children? Ha.

    • @susanvotroubek7440
      @susanvotroubek7440 7 месяцев назад +1

      @@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?

    • @MeeshyMish
      @MeeshyMish 7 месяцев назад +2

      @@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.

    • @susanvotroubek7440
      @susanvotroubek7440 7 месяцев назад +2

      @@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 🙏.

  • @E-Kat
    @E-Kat 7 месяцев назад +8

    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. 😇

  • @elizabethwilson-sg3ei
    @elizabethwilson-sg3ei 7 месяцев назад +4

    An example of her class and time

  • @kevinroche8657
    @kevinroche8657 7 месяцев назад +6

    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

  • @ps603
    @ps603 7 месяцев назад +4

    She lived as Society expected during that era. So glad things ahev changed.

  • @cindys6468
    @cindys6468 7 месяцев назад +385

    She was stylish but not very pretty. My opinion.

    • @annemcgann7760
      @annemcgann7760 7 месяцев назад

      Agreed. Butter face

    • @iVenge
      @iVenge 7 месяцев назад +55

      Not pretty at all. I agree.

    • @margaretnesbeth593
      @margaretnesbeth593 7 месяцев назад +57

      ​@@iVengeshe was pretty for that era.

    • @fractalofathena2178
      @fractalofathena2178 7 месяцев назад +49

      Alas, standards of beauty change…

    • @614HairSnob
      @614HairSnob 7 месяцев назад +4

      😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @kimberlyickes7425
    @kimberlyickes7425 5 месяцев назад +1

    Well what did she utter on her deathbed that was so outrageous? You never got to that.

  • @lynnestamey7272
    @lynnestamey7272 7 месяцев назад +7

    She had a very sad life. Sounds like Bill was horrible.

  • @ifyoucanthandletruthdontpost
    @ifyoucanthandletruthdontpost 7 месяцев назад +6

    Post war she sounds like The Meghan Markle of her day

  • @MarthaWoodworth-f9s
    @MarthaWoodworth-f9s 7 месяцев назад +12

    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.

    • @mphrdldn
      @mphrdldn 7 месяцев назад +4

      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.)

    • @CjJohnson-kf1oz
      @CjJohnson-kf1oz 7 месяцев назад +1

      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.

  • @sherrir3195
    @sherrir3195 7 месяцев назад +5

    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.

  • @shackledcitizen
    @shackledcitizen 7 месяцев назад +10

    Another clickbate. So annoying.

  • @brendagroff8478
    @brendagroff8478 7 месяцев назад +14

    Babe wasn't an Elizabeth Taylor!

    • @Smorss2011
      @Smorss2011 7 месяцев назад +4

      It's not a competition.

    • @RoseyTucker
      @RoseyTucker 7 месяцев назад +3

      @Smorss2011
      But, if it was a competition, I can not think of any woman who could beat out Elizabeth Taylor. But, considering that this film had a scene from a great movie, whose title escapes me, of Elizabeth Taylor kissing Montgomery Clift, perhaps that is what
      @brendagroff8478
      was reffering to.

    • @marknewton6984
      @marknewton6984 7 месяцев назад

      Based on Dreiser's "American Tragedy."

  • @ThePiratemachine
    @ThePiratemachine 6 месяцев назад +1

    Connery & Bacaal dancing in one of those pictures.

  • @kendrazamora7763
    @kendrazamora7763 7 месяцев назад +3

    The fact that you say “woman” instead of “women”, ie ‘He had affairs with many woman’, was more interesting than the actually story. Come on you can do better

  • @tomgrimes8379
    @tomgrimes8379 6 месяцев назад +2

    The narrator doesn't use the plural of "woman." She says woman when the correct word is women. Is this a clue the narrator is AI?

  • @colleennobbs7218
    @colleennobbs7218 7 месяцев назад +4

    Vain, self centered, greedy…………not to mention not beautiful.
    I don’t have empathy for this woman.
    The rich are not any happier than us lower people.