The Remarkable Story of Slim Keith. The California Golden Girl.

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Immerse yourself in the captivating tale of Nancy “Slim” Keith, a trailblazing icon of post-World War II America, in our latest historical deep dive. As the FX series 'Feud: Truman Capote vs. The Swans' continues to enchant viewers, we turn the spotlight on Slim Keith, an overlooked yet pivotal figure in this enthralling saga.
Our video delves into the life of Slim Keith, who defined the California girl archetype with her effortless charm and uniquely American style. From her dramatic childhood marked by tragedy and familial strife, to her rise as a celebrated socialite, Slim's story is one of resilience and self-creation.
We explore her influence on Hollywood, not through the silver screen, but through her marriage to Howard Hawks, and her connections to legends like Clark Gable and Ernest Hemingway. Slim's life was a whirlwind of luxury, ambition, and romance, intertwining with the lives of the era's most iconic figures.
Witness Slim's complex relationships within the glittering world of high society, including her ties with Babe Paley and her eventual fall-out with Truman Capote. The betrayal and revelations in Capote's 'La Côte Basque 1965' not only marked the end of friendships but also a shift in the landscape of New York's elite.
Join us as we uncover the untold story of Slim Keith, a woman of grit and glamour, whose life epitomizes the dramatic shift in women's roles and societal norms during the mid-20th century. This narrative is not just about a person, but about an era of transformation and the unspoken truths behind the public facades.
Subscribe and join us in exploring the life of Slim Keith, The Original California Girl - a story of triumph, tragedy, and the complexities of high society. #SlimKeith #TrumanCapote #FeudCapoteVsTheSwans #babepaley #CaliforniaGirl #HollywoodLegends #HighSocietySecrets #SwansOfCapote #UntoldBiographies #EraOfChange #IconicWomenOfHistory

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@towanda1067 Місяць тому

A remarkable woman? Born beautiful into a rich family. Marrying for money. Having affairs with married men. Seemingly not really interested in being a mother to her children. And pretty much, it seems, only interested in her own needs. Hmmm…not my definition of remarkable.

@mtngrl5859 26 днів тому

There are many men who are fascinating even if they have mistresses & don't love their children. I don't know how wealthy her father was, he didn't try to bribe her wit money, just a pony.

@MsAllison 24 дні тому

My thoughts too. I doubt I’d ever describe her as “remarkable “ considering she abandoned her daughter at a month old to go party and travel with other men in NYC and other locations. This video described her as rather self-centered and egotistical. She chose married men whom she later married only to discover they would cheat on her as well. But then she doesn’t sound like the innocent betrayed wife either. Did she ever find happiness or even contentment? Certainly not as a wife or mother. Remarkable? No. Sad and selfish, more likely.

@janisewellington-ut5jy 19 днів тому

I would be ashamed if she were my daughter and she was not attractive.

@monicacappetta7017 19 днів тому

Nor do I find her beautiful. Just tall, slim and blond with an average face.

@tallahasseelassie4223 14 днів тому

For perhaps another view of her, read 'Haywire' by Brooke Hayward. Hayward loved her stepmother and clearly preferred her to the stepmother who replaced her, Pamela Churchill.

@annamossity8879 Місяць тому

I’m sorry, after watching vids of each of the swans I don’t think any of them were remarkable. Beautiful maybe but nothing remarkable about self centered, narcissistic women. I feel bad for all of their children.

@MilosBrajkovic-rc3ik 12 днів тому

Even not so beautiful...

@roadrunner381 Місяць тому

The kind of woman I would run from as fast as I could!😳

@MythicMindScape21 Місяць тому

🤣

@annamossity8879 Місяць тому

Agreed. All the swans!

@czarinacourtneyal-marmont4699 19 днів тому

Surely it’s the other way around. Let’s see! Who are you? But I bet you know the names of “The Swans” that if you were an actual member of polite society you’d already know who, what, why, etc instead of this watered down and inaccurate display of historical fiction+pure fantasy. He just wanted to be 1 of the “girls!” Can you blame him?!His idea of the fairer sex he learned hanging out w/Harper Lee constantly. She just screams “Celibate…not by choice!”

@diannshoemaker6419 25 днів тому

They aren't called the idle rich for nothing.

@jstone247 Місяць тому

Did anyone believe in fidelity in those days? How could they live with themselves.

@GemaEnriquez Місяць тому

Hollywood goofballs ! these people were just as bad as the trash celebrities we have today !!!

@kathleenmckenzie6261 Місяць тому

@jstone247 From what I've read, people all through the ages were always more enamored of the idea of fidelity than actually practicing it. Fidelity has always been for someone else.

@annamossity8879 Місяць тому

How about their children?! None of the swans were active mothers. Have them and leave them or turn them over to nannies.

@MythicMindScape21 28 днів тому

You aren't wrong, but Slim and her daughter grew close as her daughter got older. Her daughter actually turned out to have a really successful life outside of the limelight. I think though the father's were worse, it is not as if HH, or BP were doing much with their children either. Must have been a lot of lonely childhoods really.

@kathleenmckenzie6261 25 днів тому

@@annamossity8879 One cannot make blanket statements about the fate of children raised by nannies. Just as with mothers, some nannies are very good, some are awful, and most fall somewhere in between. Winston Churchill, along with probably all of his peers of that era, was the son of socialite Jennie Jerome Churchill, was raised by a nanny and seems to have loved both his mother and his nanny dearly.

@marinamartinez6886 Місяць тому

This was a good profile of her, of course after watching The Swans I was interested. Tgey certainly got around in Hollywood back in the day, probably still happening. 👍👍👍

@Kate4267 Місяць тому

Fascinating story! Thank you. I’m just wondering what happened with her daughter? Who reared her?

@MythicMindScape21 Місяць тому

She split time with her father and mother and was raised by a nanny in her early years, then spent most of her time with Slim. Slim wanted her to be a society girl, but she very much wanted to do her own thing. She was an outstanding student, attended UCLA, then worked for Perry Ellis, before starting her own interior design firm which was very successful. She is still alive now, at 78 and seems happy and content with life, thankful for the chances she was given, and is quite humble and down to Earth.

@Kate4267 Місяць тому

@@MythicMindScape21 How kind of you to respond so quickly. I appreciate it! 😄

@ileanaacacostaacosta1813 25 днів тому

@@MythicMindScape21 When did Silim died? She was a bad mother but she was a good and loyal daughter how strange

@jamesfox2579 12 днів тому

She had and led a fascinating life!💕

@iona.1footinfront840 Місяць тому

Sorry but she’s not remarkable to me What did she actually do for a job? What did you actually do that contributed to society? Seems like she was just very good at having affairs with married men. Men that were much older and obviously rich. Why did she have a child with her husband when the marriage was so over to the point where he was obviously having affairs with other women? Alimony by any chance? Why did she abandon the baby (that was only months old) and then go to New York and hang out with her party friends when she had this little baby? Sorry but I’m starting to believe that Truman Capote was probably very right about her

@JenLev Місяць тому

I found the story interesting. For me it's interesting how people and especially women lived back then and their different lives, even if I don't agree with her choices. It's still a good story. Not having a go, but what could women really do in the 1930s or 40s? And a lot of pregnancies at that time were accidental, hard to put all the blame on women here. Life was a lot different.

@annettepora8091 Місяць тому

Even when I was a young adult in the 60s the classifieds were divided between male and female. Women did not have many options. Hence one reason the hippy revolution took hold. No women were head of corporations or many managers. The advent of IT helped change that. Women couldn't buy a house, no credit cards etc without a husband or a man cosigning loans. It was really bad how women were treated.

@JenLev Місяць тому

@@annettepora8091 True, people kind of forget how it was back then, so hard to judge women by the standards of today. Really the best option for a girl in those days was marrying well, and that's kind of what their parents pushed them in to. There were even classes on how to be a good wife in schools.

@annamossity8879 Місяць тому

Sorry, but I agree with the original post. I find nothing remarkable about the swans. I’d say Capote was spot on. I’ve met many actual remarkable women of the age and they were truly accomplished.

@JenLev Місяць тому

@@annamossity8879 Fair enough to me the word remarkable means worthy of attention, I found their lives interesting. Is she Marie Curie, or did she split the atom? No. But she led an interesting life. And I was personally interested in their stories. Remarkable and accomplished don't mean the same thing to me.

@billcolyer8689 Місяць тому

She seemed like a strong interesting person. And Beautiful.

@alanbartlett6430 Місяць тому

Thank you... ❤

@MythicMindScape21 Місяць тому

You're welcome 😊

@adpenaos 19 днів тому

What a wasted life!!! she surely wasn't remarkable, she did nothing to deserve that mention.

@l.keithhain1952 Місяць тому

Thanks! 🙏

@MythicMindScape21 Місяць тому

Thank you too,

@carolynellis387 21 день тому

I don't see anything remarkable other than travelling and partying all the time, having the means to do so! Selfish

@nahlabella4857 12 днів тому

OK, right? Thank you!

@Hummingbird108 Місяць тому

Very good never heard of her❤❤❤❤❤

@MythicMindScape21 Місяць тому

Thanks for the watch

@karelhoffmann7282 Місяць тому

Watch Feud: Capote vs The Swans

@RideoutMr Місяць тому

Well what about her child? How did that go?

@MythicMindScape21 Місяць тому

@@RideoutMr She is still alive at 78, graduated from UCLA, worked for Perry Ellis, and was a successful interior designer for many years; designing for many people including Candice Bergen, Tom Brokaw, and Diane Sawyer. She speaks very positively about her mom, especially her sense of humor, she just decided to lead a different life, she didn't like the party scene, and did her own thing. She is very down to Earth.

@RideoutMr Місяць тому

@@MythicMindScape21 Thanks...cheers fr Italy!!!

@gogoyubari366 10 днів тому

Slim was so pretty!

@christinepaige2575 8 днів тому

One of Leland Hayward’s daughters with Margaret Sullavan, Brooke Hayward, wrote an interesting memoir. She liked Slim as a stepmother, but hated Pamela.

@MythicMindScape21 8 днів тому

True, she speaks very negatively of Pamela in her biography. 'Haywire'

@kentuckylady2990 Місяць тому

Never heard of her

@kassandralevingston9874 Місяць тому

Me either. But from what they just presented, I wouldn’t have wanted a husband around her. 😏

@tracyspaulding6705 Місяць тому

She was the original California “It Girl” in the 30’s and 40’s, who knew everyone and lived a celebrated (and sometimes tumultuous) life. One of Howard Hawks most famous screen characters was based on Slim. She’s before my time, but she was the real deal IMO. Diane Lane recently played her in the recent series, Feud.

@michaelconnor5378 25 днів тому

@@tracyspaulding6705she was Karen’s grandma

@stephenstephen1505 Місяць тому

A fascinating woman

@lllowkee6533 Місяць тому

Never heard of her but this is interesting …

@christinepaige2575 8 днів тому

Her looks changed a great deal over the years - not much resemblance between the young Slim and the older one.

@LaurieValdez-zk3dy 13 днів тому

I remember this lady

@leelee9421 4 дні тому

Well this would be a good movie I reckon. And Uma Thurman could play her.

@bindilove3899 14 днів тому

So many harsh comments on here. 😲. Many people don’t understand the impact a traumatic childhood has on a person. Slim did pretty well for herself and seemed to overcome many emotional and abandonment issues from childhood. Good for her for loving her mother.

@MythicMindScape21 11 днів тому

Great comment. Thanks

@sifridbassoon Місяць тому

it's a good thing cigarettes were cheap back then

@MythicMindScape21 Місяць тому

🤣🤣

@donnagamble5283 4 дні тому

She was a beautiful home wrecker 🫤

@user-mg2kf7dt9g 14 днів тому

News flash: when you’re tall, blond, and skinny the world is yours! Yes, even if you come from nothing! Ask any super model! I’m short and always struggled to stay thin. I really had to work very hard to become the remarkable woman I’m today!

@MythicMindScape21 14 днів тому

Thanks for sharing!!

@dejah2553 День тому

Not true. Coming from a tall blonde person

@jamieluce5808 День тому

@@dejah2553 I agree.

@jamieluce5808 День тому

I was 5’9’ at age 15. Talk about feeling self conscious. Taller than most of the middle school boys.

@ladyluck9469 13 днів тому

She won in life because of her looks.

@jamieluce5808 2 дні тому

She also knew how to handle the rich and famous with panache. They said she was never “ starstruck” meaning she saw herself as an equal to them. It takes more than just beauty to blend in with prominent people in society. If it were so easy we’d all be doing it.

@nahlabella4857 Місяць тому

Yes, she stayed true to HERSELF. And ignored her only child. Selfish and self-serving. Not to be admired.

@maclanty5324 26 днів тому

BUTT BUTT SHE'S SO LIKE 'TRUMP', NO BIDEN 2025`~VOTE💙🌀🧙🏻‍♀️

@amppma7302 12 днів тому

where did you get the idea she ignored her only child? have read a biography and autobiography of Slim Keith and she seems to have had a close relationship with her daughter Kitty.

@nahlabella4857 12 днів тому

@@amppma7302 Shortly after the birth of her daughter Kitty Hawks, Slim moved to Havana to stay with Ernest Hemingway. Does that sound like a good mother to you? She left her baby behind!!!

@benburndred2226 4 години тому

@@maclanty5324you must be as wealthy as slim to absorb Biden's America...must be nice