Life of the Party: The Pamela Harriman Story
movie
Released October 12, 1998
Overview
Told mostly in flashbacks, the film tells the story of Pamela Digby Churchill Hayward Harriman, one of the greatest and probably most famous courtesans of the twentieth century. While not showing her childhood, first marriage to Winston Churchill's son, or most of her affairs, we do get to see her affair and eventual marriage to Broadway producer Leland Hayward, and then her marriage to politician Averell Harriman, with whom she had an affair while both were married to others in World War II. We also see her as ambassador to France during her last years, and her death in 1997. While some (mostly her lovers) adored her, others (mostly her son and her husbands' children) hated her.
Cast
Ann-Margret
as
Pamela Harriman
Mitchell Ryan
as
Averell Harriman
Gail Strickland
as
Betsey Cushing Roosevelt Whitney
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Natalie Radford
as
Pamela Harriman at 20
John DeMita
as
Peter Duchin
Susan Ruttan
as
Janet
Sydney Walsh
as
Minnie Churchill
Joan Severance
as
Paley
Cynthia Harris
as
Kathleen
Hal Landon Jr.
as
Episcopal Bishop
