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Little Gloria... Happy at Last

  • TV Mini Series
  • 19821982
  • 3h
IMDb RATING
7.4/10
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Little Gloria... Happy at Last (1982)
Little Gloria
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The story deals with Gloria Vanderbilt's difficult coming-of-age when, at eleven, she was a pawn in a custody battle between her sybaritic mother and her aunt.The story deals with Gloria Vanderbilt's difficult coming-of-age when, at eleven, she was a pawn in a custody battle between her sybaritic mother and her aunt.The story deals with Gloria Vanderbilt's difficult coming-of-age when, at eleven, she was a pawn in a custody battle between her sybaritic mother and her aunt.
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  • Stars
    • Angela Lansbury
    • Maureen Stapleton
    • Martin Balsam
  • Stars
    • Angela Lansbury
    • Maureen Stapleton
    • Martin Balsam
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    • 8User reviews
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    • Nominated for 6 Primetime Emmys

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    Bette Davis, Angela Lansbury, Christopher Plummer, and Lucy Gutteridge in Little Gloria... Happy at Last (1982)
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    Angela Lansbury
    Angela Lansbury
    • Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney
    Maureen Stapleton
    Maureen Stapleton
    • Nurse Emma Kieslich
    Martin Balsam
    Martin Balsam
    • Nathan Burkan
    Glynis Johns
    Glynis Johns
    • Laura Fitzpatrick Morgan
    John Hillerman
    John Hillerman
    • Maury Paul
    Michael Gross
    Michael Gross
    • Gilchrist
    Lucy Gutteridge
    Lucy Gutteridge
    • Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt
    Bette Davis
    Bette Davis
    • Alice Gwynne Vanderbilt
    Jennifer Dundas
    Jennifer Dundas
    • Little Gloria
    Rosalyn Landor
    Rosalyn Landor
    • Thelma Morgan Converse
    Leueen Willoughby
    Leueen Willoughby
    • Consuelo Morgan
    Cec Linder
    Cec Linder
    Philip Craig
    Philip Craig
    Booth Savage
    Booth Savage
    Christopher Plummer
    Christopher Plummer
    • Reggie Vanderbilt
    Barnard Hughes
    Barnard Hughes
    • Justice John Francis Carew
    Joseph Maher
    Joseph Maher
    • Smythe
    Ken Pogue
    Ken Pogue
    • Judge James Aloycious Foley
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    • Trivia
      In reality, Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt and her sister Thelma were identical twins. Lucy Gutteridge, who plays Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt in this TV movie, later played Thelma in The Woman He Loved (1988).
    • Goofs
      The voiceover at the end states that Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt died in 1964. She in fact died in February 1965.
    • Connections
      Featured in The 35th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1983)

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    7/10
    Those Vanderbilt Women
    Watching Little Gloria forthe first time what struck me about this film is how the women were totally running the show. Old Commodore Vanderbilt may have made the family fortune from the New York Central Railroad, but by the 20s and 30s the women were certainly running the show.

    The only male Vanderbilt is Christopher Plummer playing Reginld Vanderbilt and he's a wastrel just wasting away. In his 40s he marries Lucy Guttridge and the marriage lasts long enough to produce Little Gloria our subject. Plummer dies from the excesses of a partying life Prohibition spirits no doubt helped.

    Jennifer Dundas plays Little Gloria the heir to a trust fund set up by her grandfather who wisely knew Plummer would blow it. But when he dies Dundas becomes the center of a custody battle between Guttridge who has a hedonistic lifestyle in Europe and Plummer's sister Angela Lansbury.

    This was a good mini-series which even had an appearance by Bette Davis playing Plummer and Lansbury's mother the Vanderbilt grand dame. But the appearances I liked were that of Maureen Stapleton the nurse who poisoned Little Gloria's mind against her mom and Glynis Johns who was Guttridge's mother and quite the character herself.

    All this was entertainment fodder for the Depression masses. Little Gloria certainly captures the mood of the times.
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    • Release date
      • October 24, 1982 (United States)
      • United Kingdom
      • United States
      • English
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      • Brockville, Ontario, Canada
    • Production companies
      • London Film Productions
      • Cine-Gloria
      • Edgar J. Scherick Associates
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    • 3 hours
      • Color
      • Mono

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