Rosamond Pinchot
| Rosamond Pinchot | |
|---|---|
| Born |
October 26, 1904 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Died | January 24, 1938 (aged 33) Old Brookville, New York, U.S. |
| Cause of death | Asphyxia due to carbon monoxide poisoning |
| Resting place | Milford Cemetery |
| Nationality | American |
| Other names | Rosamond Pinchot Gaston |
| Occupation | Actress, socialite |
| Spouse(s) | William Gaston (m. 1928–38) |
| Children | 2 |
| Parent(s) |
Amos Pinchot Gertrude Minturn Pinchot |
| Relatives | Gifford Pinchot (brother) Mary Pinchot (half sister) Antoinette Pinchot (half sister) Gifford Pinchot (uncle) |
Rosamond Pinchot (October 26, 1904 – January 24, 1938) was an American socialite, stage and film actress.
Born in New York City, Pinchot was the daughter of Amos Pinchot, a wealthy lawyer and a key figure in the Progressive Party and Gertrude Minturn Pinchot, the daughter of shipping magnate Robert Bowne Minturn, Jr.. She had a younger brother, Gifford (nicknamed Long Giff). Her uncle was Pennsylvania Governor Gifford Pinchot and her cousin was Edie Sedgwick. The family divided their time between their home in New York City and the family estate, Grey Towers, in Milford, Pennsylvania. She graduated from Miss Chapin's School.
Her parents divorced in 1918. After the divorce, Pinchot and her brother lived with their mother in her townhouse in New York City. In 1919, Amos Pinchot married magazine writer Ruth Pickering with whom he would have two more children: Mary Eno and Antoinette "Tony" Pinchot.
At the age of nineteen, Pinchot was discovered by Max Reinhardt while traveling on an ocean liner with her mother. Reinhardt cast her as a nun who runs away from a convent in the Broadway production of Karl Vollmoller's The Miracle.
Pinchot's appearance in the play caused a sensation and led to her receiving considerable attention from the press who named her "the loveliest woman in America".
Reinhardt later cast her in productions of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and Franz Werfel's The Eternal Road. She made her only film appearance in the 1935 adaptation of The Three Musketeers, as Queen Anne.
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