Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story |  | Director: Charles Jarrott
Actors: Farrah Fawcett, Linden Ashby, Stephane Audran, Fairuza Balk, Nicholas Clay
Studio: A&E HOME VIDEO
Category: DVD
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Sales Rank: 9942
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: Unrated
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 2
Running Time: 300 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: AAAE112840
UPC: 733961112849
EAN: 0733961112849
ASIN: B0016OKQQ2
Theatrical Release Date: 1987
Release Date: December 16, 2008
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| • | Farrah Fawcett stars in the true-life saga of one of America s wealthiest women in this stirring six-part miniseries. Gorgeous, lonely, and rich, Barbara Hutton was the original million dollar baby. Having inherited the vast Woolworth fortune when she was only a child, Hutton was raised in great affluence, and even greater unhappiness. Craving affection, she burned through the money in high sty |
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Product Description
Studio: A&e Home Video Release Date: 12/16/2008 Run time: 300 minutes
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Poor Little Rich Girl vividly illustrates the maxim that money can't buy happiness. Seconds into this NBC miniseries, Barbara Hutton loses her mother to suicide, her financier father, Franklyn (Kevin McCarthy), pawns her off on her grandfather, five-and-dime king F.W. Woolworth (Burl Ives), who dies shortly afterwards, and then she goes to live with relatives in California. When her great-grandmother expires, Hutton (now played by Fairuza Balk) becomes a multi-millionaire and moves back to New York with her father. By adulthood, the globe-trotting Hutton (Farrah Fawcett) hasn't formed any lasting friendships, but enjoys the company of her kindly attendant, Tiki (Brenda Blethyn), and hard-drinking cousin, Jimmy (Bruce Davison), but with her good looks, vast fortune, and penchant for parties, men swarm like flies, leading to eight unhappy marriages, a neglected son, and a lost fortune. Directed by the unpredictable Charles Jarrott (Anne of a Thousand Days, Lost Horizon) Poor Little Rich Girl boasts an impressive international cast, including Stéphane Audran and Zoë Wanamaker as family associates, but it's heavier on the suds than the psychology. That said, if Fawcett's appearance in a period production seems odd, she captures the pain behind the glittering façade, while McCarthy (The Invasion of the Body Snatchers) also impresses as her coldly protective father. Since Jarrott's protagonist lived through major historical events like the Great Depression and World War II, he uses a combination of recreated and newsreel footage to depict the changing times. As for Hutton's husbands, they include princes and counts, but only the fame of Cary Grant (Remington Steele's James Read) surpasses her own--he's also, apparently, the only one to marry her for love. This two-disc set offers an additional hour (the US broadcast topped out at four). Glamorous outfits and jewels by Harry Winston complete this lavish ode to loneliness. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
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 poor Barbara Hutton December 2, 2009
Sara D. James (Las Vegas, NV)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
one of my favorite series. If you have not seen it, you should. It will make you appreciate your normal life much more. Money does not buy happiness.
GOOD MOVIE!!!!! November 4, 2009
A. R SCOTT (Houston, Texas)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
THIS IS A GOOD MOVIE. I REALLY DID ENJOY THIS MOVIE. FARRAH DID A GREAT JOB. GREAT MOVIE.
 Porr Little Rich Girl October 24, 2009
Rose M. Nauful
I ordered this awhile ago and just got around to watch it; however, it was defective. I was really looking forward to watching it one evening but could not get it to work.
So sad October 17, 2009
A. milliken
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Very good movie. Farrah Fawcett give a top performance as a very weathy woman who spends her dying days broke.
The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Children. In the Meantime, in-Between time, Ain't We Got Fun? September 27, 2009
Kenneth A. Nelson (Pensacola, FL)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The words in the Title (above) are words from the song, "Ain't We Got Fun." If you listen for it, you'll hear it in the backround throughout this epic of American "Royalty."
Even her fabulous wealth didn't quell Barbara Hutton's feelings of insecurity and self-image. All she thought she was was a source of financial aid to everyone else around her. Beyond the magnificent Cartier emeralds, pearls from Tiffany & Co. and Harry Winston's diamonds, the homes she had all around the world and the lifestyle only a few could keep up with, she was never sure if she was truely happy or just mesmorized by all the sparkle.
The attention to period details has had me impressed since the first time viewed. Every detail was perfect. The wealthy people's "attitude" was particulary detailed. They had much too much time on their hands!
You don't watch this film, you live it. It envelopes you within it's silken threads and holds you tight until it wants to let you go. In my case, it never let go.
"In the meantime, in-Between time, Ain't We Got Fun..."
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