The Astors: High Society

9.0 1996 60 min
NR
Documentary

The very name conjures up images of the good life black tie affairs and high society balls. Yet their long saga proves that money is no guarantee of happiness or stability. John Jacob Astor built an empire by parlaying…

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John Jacob Astor IV Self (archive footage)
Brooke Astor Self
Nancy Astor Self (archive footage)
Winston Churchill Self (archive footage)
Brendan Gill Self — Historian
Adolf Hitler Self (archive footage)
Franklin D. Roosevelt Self (archive footage)

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