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The old New York to which you belong:
Mrs. van Rhijin, "Miss Scott [African culture]."
We shall not be afraid of meeting new people and have new things.
61th Street by Fifth Ave., Manhatten, New York City
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The American Gilded Age was a period of immense economic change, of great conflict between the old ways and brand new systems, and of huge fortunes made and lost.
Against the backdrop of this transformation, HBO’s The Gilded Age begins in 1882 with young Marian Brook (Jacobson) moving from rural Pennsylvania to New York City after the death of her father to live with her thoroughly old money aunts Agnes van Rhijn (Baranski) and Ada Brook (Nixon).
Marian unwittingly becomes involved in a social conflict between one of her aunts, a member of the old money set, and her obscenely wealthy neighbors, George (Spector) and Bertha Russell (Coon), a ruthless railroad tycoon and his ambitious wife. Peggy Scott (Benton), an aspiring writer looking for a fresh start, is also Marian's companion.
Exposed to a world on the brink of the modern age, will Marian follow the established rules of society or forge her own path?
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@pdruiz2005
9 days ago
I love how the Russells are loosely based on the Vanderbilts. The Astors were the old-money New York family in the 1870s and 1880s, having built their fortune on fur trading in the late 1700s and then real estate investing in Manhattan in the early 1800s. But the uncouth arrivistes with their nouveau-riche aspirations were the Vanderbilts, with their vast railroad and shipping wealth that had boomed in the 1860s and 1870s. The Vanderbilts soon supplanted the Astors in New York society with their much larger fortune, and their far larger mansions, with some veritable palaces. The first of these palaces was the one built at 640 Fifth Avenue, the one fictionalized here. Huge new ones would sprout up in the 1890s, including a gargantuan palace with 154 rooms on 57th Street and Fifth Avenue. This whole show is premised on how the Vanderbilts overtook the Astors in New York society in the 1880s and 1890s. It wasn't a pretty process. It was cutthroat and ruthless.
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