Rosamond Pinchot (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Rosamond Pinchot (October 26, 1904 - January 24, 1938) was an American socialite, stage and film actress. Pinchot was born in New York City, the daughter of Amos Pinchot, a wealthy lawyer and a key figure in the Progressive Party and the niece of Pennsylvania Governor Gifford Pinchot. Mary Pinchot Meyer was her half sister, and her cousin was Edie Sedgwick. 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.