Florence Pritchett
Florence Pritchett | |
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 c. 1945 | |
| Born | June 28, 1920 West Orange, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Died | November 9, 1965 (age 45) New York City, U.S. |
| Other names | Florence Pritchett Smith |
| Occupation(s) | Fashion editor, journalist, radio and TV personality |
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Florence "Flo" Pritchett, also known as Florence Pritchett Smith (June 28, 1920 – November 9, 1965), was an American fashion editor, journalist, and radio and TV personality.
Biography
[edit]Florence Pritchett was born on June 28, 1920, in West Orange, New Jersey. In 1940, she married Richard Canning. They divorced in 1943. In 1944, she met John F. Kennedy.[1] Author Sally Bedell Smith has theorized that Pritchett and Kennedy dated in the 1940s and remained friends until the early 1960s.[2] Pritchett was also romantically linked to actors Robert Walker[3] and Errol Flynn.[4]
Pritchett worked as the fashion editor for New York Journal-American[5] and wrote articles for Photoplay.[6] She appeared as a panelist on the radio and TV program Leave It to the Girls from 1945 to 1953.[7] In 1946, she worked as a special representative for David O. Selznick, helping promote films like Duel in the Sun.[8][9]
Pritchett married Earl E. T. Smith in 1947. Smith was appointed ambassador to Cuba in 1957. That year, Pritchett established a three-year scholarship for Cuban students to study fashion, textile design, and interior design in the U.S.[10]
Florence Pritchett died on November 9, 1965, in the Manhattan apartment where she lived with her husband and 12-year-old son.[11] She suffered a cerebral hemorrhage after at least several weeks of struggling with leukemia.[12] Her obituaries in the New York Times and New York Journal-American[13] said she had been "in ill health since mid-August" and had been treated for it in what was then called Roosevelt Hospital.[14] Her book, These Entertaining People, was released by Macmillan Publishers in 1966.[15]
References
[edit]- ^ "Pritchett, Florence "Flo" | JFK Library". www.jfklibrary.org. Retrieved 2019-05-11.
- ^ Smith, Sally Bedell (2004-05-04). Grace and Power: The Private World of the Kennedy White House. Random House Publishing Group. ISBN 9781588364098.
- ^ MacFadden Publications, Inc (1945). Photoplay (Jul-Dec 1945). Media History Digital Library. New York, MacFadden Publications, Inc. p. 447.
{{cite book}}:|first=has generic name (help) - ^ MacFadden Publications, Inc (1945). Photoplay (Jul-Dec 1945). Media History Digital Library. New York, MacFadden Publications, Inc. p. 275.
{{cite book}}:|first=has generic name (help) - ^ Variety (1945). Variety (April 1945). Media History Digital Library Media History Digital Library. New York, NY: Variety Publishing Company. p. 191.
- ^ MacFadden Publications, Inc (1946). Photoplay (Jul-Dec 1946). Media History Digital Library. New York, MacFadden Publications, Inc. p. 317.
{{cite book}}:|first=has generic name (help) - ^ Brooks, Tim; Marsh, Earle F. (2009-06-24). The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows, 1946-Present. Random House Publishing Group. p. 779. ISBN 9780307483201.
- ^ The Film Daily (Jul-Sep 1946). MBRS Library of Congress. Wid's Films and Film Folk, inc. July 1946. p. 404.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link) - ^ Smyth, J. E. (2018-03-02). Nobody's Girl Friday: The Women Who Ran Hollywood. Oxford University Press. p. 83. ISBN 9780190840846.
- ^ Pérez, Louis A. Jr. (2012-09-01). On Becoming Cuban: Identity, Nationality, and Culture. UNC Press Books. p. 410. ISBN 9781469601410.
- ^ "MRS. Earl e. T. Smith, 45, Dies; Columnist and Wife of Ex. Envoy; I Soctety Fgure and Hostess Appeared as TV Panelist as Florence Pritchett". The New York Times. 11 November 1965.
- ^ academic website that mentions Florence’s leukemia diagnosis
- ^ This is a citation of Florence’s New York Journal-American obituary in a book by John McAdams who is listed as an RS in several Wikipedia articles
- ^ "MRS. Earl e. T. Smith, 45, Dies; Columnist and Wife of Ex. Envoy; I Soctety Fgure and Hostess Appeared as TV Panelist as Florence Pritchett". The New York Times. 11 November 1965.
- ^ Smith, Florence Pritchett (1966). These Entertaining People. Macmillan.
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