Eleanor Post Hutton
| Eleanor Post Hutton | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Eleanor Post Close December 3, 1909 Greenwich, Connecticut, U.S. |
| Died | November 27, 2006 (aged 96) Paris, France |
| Other names | Eleanor Close Barzin Eleanor Hutton Rand Eleanor Close Hutton Eleanor Post Hutton Sturges Gautier |
| Education |
Spence School Miss Porter's School |
| Spouse(s) |
Preston Sturges (m. 1930; annulled 1932) Etienne M. R. Gautier (m. 1933; div. 1933) George Curtis Rand (m. 1934; div. 1938) János Békessy (m. 1942; div. 1946) Owen D. Johnson (m. 1949) Léon Barzin (m. 1956; d. 1999) |
| Children | Antal Miklas Post de Bekessy |
Eleanor Post Hutton (née Close; December 3, 1909 – November 27, 2006) was an American heiress and socialite. Born a "Close", her name changed to "Hutton" with her mother's 1920 remarriage to Edward Francis Hutton.
Eleanor Post Close was born on December 3, 1909 in Greenwich, Connecticut, the second daughter of heiress, socialite and company founder Marjorie Merriweather Post (1887–1973) and investment banker Edward Bennett Close.
She was the granddaughter of C. W. Post (1854–1914) whose Postum Cereal Company was the predecessor of the General Foods Corporation. She was a half-sister to Dina Merrill (née Nedenia Hutton), her mother's third and last child. Through her father's second marriage, she became half-sister to William B. Close (1924–2009), father of actress Glenn Close (born 1947).
Eleanor was educated at the Spence School in Manhattan and Miss Porter's School in Farmington, Connecticut. She was introduced to society in 1927, and in 1928, was presented to King George and Queen Mary at Buckingham Palace.
On April 12, 1930, she eloped with the playwright and director Preston Sturges (1898–1959). In 1932, she sought an annulment on the grounds that he was not legally divorced from his first wife when they eloped. Sturges' screenplay for the 1933 film The Power and the Glory was loosely based on her stories about her grandfather C. W. Post.
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