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ONE OF A KIND

GLORIA

Vanderbilt

HEIRESS, PAINTER, MUSE, DESIGNER, MODEL, WRITER,
ENTREPRENEUR, ACTOR, SOCIALITE, SURVIVOR, ICON.

G  loria brought the                               a former era and a contemporary      Son on Life, Loss, and Love. The  darkness, but managed to keep
   Vanderbilt name                                 joie de vivre. She is an artist,     documentary by Liz Garbus         the light in her life. She continued
   out of the Gilded                               actress, author and designer, tell-  is based on the relationship      to move forward, regardless of
   Age into the                                    all lover and mother.                Vanderbilt has with her son,      public pressure and criticism - as
Digital Age, reinventing herself                                                        Anderson Cooper, a CNN and        a mother, a woman and a creator.
over and over along the way.                       In her nineties now and still going  CBS news journalist.              Her collage works, paintings, and
                                                   strong, Gloria Vanderbilt returns    Gloria Vanderbilt, a millionaire  dream boxes are exhibited and
Hers is a story of charisma,                       to the limelight with the release    heiress during the Great          available online and describes
glamour and loss. Both a product                   of the HBO documentary Nothing       Depression made a lot of          them as a reflection of life.
of, and ahead of her times, the                    Left Unsaid, and The Rainbow         mistakes, lived through a lot
name Gloria Vanderbilt resonates                   Comes and Goes: A Mother and

              Photo: Norman Jean Roy and Horst P.

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