Blue Book beauty: Dina Merrill (above in 1954) , who was born Nedenia Marjorie Hutton, passed away on Monday at the age of 93 from lewy body dementiaDina and Liz: Merrill studied acting and eventually landed in Hollywood where she starred in films including 'Butterfield 8' (above with Elizabeth Taylor) Society queen: She was the daughter of stock broker E. F. Hutton and cereal heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post (Merrill above in 2007)A vaunted member of the Social Register, Merrill was the daughter of stock broker E. F. Hutton and cereal heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post and spent her summers on the family's yacht Sea Cloud and the winters in their palatial Palm Beach estate Mar-a-Lago.The 110,000-square-foot-estate had been built by her mother, who turned it over to the National Park Service upon her death in 1973 hoping it could perhaps become a winter White House.The costs of maintaining the property eventually became too much of a burden however, and after being returned to the Post Foundation in 1981 and purchased just four years later by President Donald Trump.As a result, Post did ultimately get her wish that the property be used as a Winter House. But somehow, Dina was immune to all the glitz and initially wanted to lead a very normal life, which she couldn’t.She hated all the attention she got because of her rich heritage but she eventually grew to enjoy it and by the time she was a teenager, she was pretty much a part of the American elite, being friends with super rich kids and going to exotic locations for school holidays.While most of the rich kids in those times were in the news due to their drug usage among other antics, she kept her dignity intact and stayed out of the news.Dina was a keen traveller and spent almost half her childhood on the yacht ‘Sea Cloud’ their family owned. He said Charlie Merrill, the founder of Wall Street competitor Merrill Lynch and thus Nedenia Marjorie Hutton became Dina Merrill.Merrill acted in twenty-two motion pictures, including Desk Set with Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, The Sundowners, Don't Give Up the Ship, Caddyshack II, I'll Take Sweden with Bob Hope, The Young Savages with Burt Lancaster, A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed with Mickey Rooney, Catch Me If You Can, Operation Petticoat with Cary Grant (who had previously been married to her cousin, Woolworth heiress Barbara Hutton) and Tony Curtis, The Courtship of Eddie's Father with Glenn Ford and Ron Howard, Butterfield 8 with Elizabeth Taylor, A Wedding with Desi Arnaz, Jr. and Carol Burnett, True Colors with John Cusack and The Player with Tim Robbins and Whoopi Goldberg.Merrill appeared regularly on television in the 1960s, including a guest role in James Franciscus's The Investigators on CBS in 1961 and on the NBC medical drama The Eleventh Hour in the role of Rita Hall in the 1962 episode entitled "Everybody Knows You Left Me". She was 93. Subsequently, she starred alongside Cary Grant and Tony Curtis in the film “Operation Petticoat” (1959) directed by … Merrill had two older half-sisters, Adelaide Breevort (Close) Hutton (July 26, 1908 – December 31, 1998) and Eleanor Post (Close) Hutton (December 3, 1909 – November 27, 2006), by her mother's first marriage, to Edward Bennett Close (grandfather of actress Glenn Close). Of course my parents’ eyebrows shot up when I said I wanted to be an actress. Nedenia Marjorie Hutton. In 1946 she wed Stanley M. Rumbough, Jr. and had three children, including David Rumbough (d. 1973). She also happened to be New York Mission Society’s vice president. Dina Merrill Net Worth is $5 Billion. Edward Francis Hutton 1875-1962; Marjorie Merriweather Post 1887-1973 Spouses and children. 1 file available 1 file available Parents. Merrill was born in New York City on December 29, 1923, although for many years her year of birth was given as 1925. In the same year she married Ted Hartley, a former pilot and actor turned investment banker.With other investors, Hartley and Ms. Merrill in 1989 acquired RKO Pictures, the onetime major Hollywood studio that had been moribund for many years.
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