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List Price: $19.95 | | Label: A&E HOME VIDEO
Salesrank: 13589
Released: December 16, 2008 |
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MPAA Rating: Unrated
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Farrah Fawcett (The Apostle, Charlie's Angels) stars in the true-life saga of one of America's wealthiest women.
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 style, and found herself poor and alone after seven failed marriages. As one of the most famous women in the world, her divorces took place in the public eye, each adding to her isolation and misery.
Winner of three Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe, POOR LITTLE RICH GIRL is a sweeping historical epic that follows the heiress around the world, from New York to London to Tangiers, in her desperate and tragic search for lasting love.
Description of Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story:
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
Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story Reviews:
GOOD MOVIE!!!!! 
2009-11-04 - THIS IS A GOOD MOVIE. I REALLY DID ENJOY THIS MOVIE. FARRAH DID A GREAT JOB. GREAT MOVIE.
So sad
2009-10-17 - 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?
2009-09-27 - 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..."
FARRAH IS BRILLIANT AS BARBRA HUTTON !!!!!
2009-09-03 - 1987's POOR LITTLE RICH GIRL: THE BARBRA HUTTON STORY was quite an event when it aried 22 years ago. This is a stellar mini-series and am so glad it's been given a DVD release. The true story is often sad and tragic despite the fact Miss Hutton was loaded, heir to the Woolworth fortune. She lost her mother early on to suicide, her father didn't want her, and spent her life longing and looking for genuine love. This was often a difficult task for her due to her early childhood imprinting, as well as the often impossible task to ever know if people like you for you - or your bank balance. She did have a few real friends and her loyal gay cousin Jimmy, but even those through time, drugs, and for multible psychological reasons deterorated or she destroyed. Barbara even had a son who sadly was sometimes neglected by her repeating the same emotional abandoment she herself was so scared by. Despite all the drama you feel deeply for her and realize people often genuinely can't teach you what they themselves don't know. To break family cycles of belief and behavior is much easier said than done - this story being a prime example. FARRAH FAWCETT is simply astounding as the complex tortured Miss Hutton. Her performance is multi-faceted and she truely dazzles in what I believe is one of her best dramatic pieces. FARRAH exhibits the full spectrum of the emotion palette brilliantly and you find astounding facial subtlties that are so real throughout her portrayal - the pain, grief, and sometimes joy all seep from the haunted well that resides in Barbra. I find MISS FAWCETT to be an underated creative artist, and now that her soul has recently left us - maybe her work will be re-evalulated and seen for what it is. Along with FARRAH'S fine craft it's great to see her looking fabulous in all this vintage garb she adorns. They spent a fortune on this mini-series and it shows in its international locations, Harry Winston jewels, and period fashions that are to die for. The other actors are also quite good, and its great to experience a class act production from beginning to end. R.I.P FARRAH - you will be missed !!!!!
A Great Mini Series
2009-02-26 - Finally this mini series is on DVD format. And it is shown in its entirety. For those that are Barbara Hutton fans or Farrah Fawcett fans as well, this movies is for you. Farah does an outstanding job as Woolworth heiress Barbara Hutton. For those that love biography, rich details and exotic locations this movies is for you.
