Hi, again. Yes, that's Lee Radziwill.
In case you were wondering who got invited to Truman's notorious Ball of1966, here's the guest list. Does it get any better? Any list that begins
with Mr. and Mrs. Gianni Agnelli is almost too much to bear...so without
further adieu, check it (I love that this party was more mask than full on
costume. That I could handle): Mr and Mrs Gianni Agnelli, Count Umberto Agnelli, Edward Albee, Mrs W
Vincent Astor, Mr and Mrs Richard Avedon, James Baldwin, Miss Tallulah
Bankhead, Cecil Beaton, Mr and Mrs Harry Belafonte, Marisa Berenson, Candice
Bergen, Mr and Mrs Irving Berlin, Sir Isaiah and Lady Berlin, Mr and Mrs
Leonard Bernstein, Mr and Mrs Benjamin Bradlee, Mr and Mrs William Buckley,
Mr and Mrs Richard Burton, Prince Carlo Caracciolo, Lord Chalfont, Dr and
Mrs John Converse, Noël Coward, Mr and Mrs Walter Cronkite, Mr and Mrs Sammy
Davis Jr, Oscar de la Renta, Marlene Dietrich, Elliott Erwitt, Douglas
Fairbanks Jr, Mrs Marshall Field, Mr and Mrs Henry Fonda, Joan Fontaine, Mr
and Mrs Henry Ford 2nd, Mr and Mrs John Kenneth Galbraith, Greta Garbo,
Ambassador and Mrs Arthur J Goldberg, Mr and Mrs Samuel Goldwyn, Henry
Golightly, Hamish Hamilton, Ambassador and Mrs W Averell Harriman, Mr and
Mrs William Randolph Hearst Jr, Mr and Mrs Henry J Heinz 2nd, Miss Lillian
Hellman, Elizabeth Hilton, Horst P Horst, Christopher Isherwood, Maharajah
and Maharani of Jaipur, Senator and Mrs Jacob K Javits, Lynda Bird Johnson,
Philip Johnson, Senator and Mrs Edward M Kennedy, Mrs John F Kennedy, Mrs
Joseph P Kennedy, Senator and Mrs Robert F Kennedy, Alfred Knopf, Mr and Mrs
Joseph Kraft, Mrs Patricia Lawford, Mr and Mrs Irving Lazar, Harper Lee,
Vivien Leigh, Mr and Mrs Jack Lemmon, Mr and Mrs Alan Jay Lerner, Mr and Mrs
Alexander Lieberman, Mr and Mrs Robert Lowell, Mr and Mrs Henry Luce,
Shirley MacLaine, Mr and Mrs Norman Mailer, Mr and Mrs Joseph Mankiewicz, Mr
and Mrs Walter Matthau, Mr and Mrs Robert McNamara, Mr and Mrs Paul Mellon,
Mr and Mrs James Michener, Mr and Mrs Arthur Miller, Mr and Mrs Vincent
Minnelli, Mr and Mrs Samuel I Newhouse Sr, Mrs Stavros Niarchos, Mike
Nichols, Lord and Lady David Ogilvy, Mr and Mrs Gregory Peck, George
Plimpton, Prince and Princess Stanislas Radziwill, Mr and Mrs Jason Robards
Jr, Governor and Mrs Nelson A Rockefeller, Philip Roth, Baroness Cecile de
Rothschild, Baron and Baroness Guy de Rothschild, Theodore Rousseau, Mr and
Mrs Arthur Schlesinger Jr, Mrs David O Selznick, Mr and Mrs Irwin Shaw, Mr
and Mrs Frank Sinatra, Steve Sondheim, Sam Spiegel, Mr and Mrs John
Steinbeck, Gloria Steinem, Mr and Mrs William Styron, Mr and Mrs Arthur Ochs
Sulzberger, Ambassador and Mrs Llewellyn E Thompson, Penelope Tree, Mr and
Mrs Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, Mrs T Reed Vreeland, William Walton, Mr and
Mrs Edward Warburg, Andy Warhol, Mr and Mrs Robert Penn Warren, Mr and Mrs
John Hay Whitney, Mr and Mrs Billy Wilder, Tenessee Williams, Mr and Mrs
Edmund Wilson, Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Darryl Zanuck I want to recreate this party. Who wants to come as the Duchess of Windsor?
I'll be Capote, natch. XO