# Cushing sisters

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{{Short description|Three 20th-century American socialites}}
The '''Cushing Sisters''' were three 20th-century American [socialites](/source/Socialite).<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |author=Parks, Rebecca | chapter=Cushing Sisters | editor=Commire, Anne | editor-link=Anne Commire | title=[Women in world history: A biographical encyclopedia](/source/Women_in_world_history%3A_A_biographical_encyclopedia) | year=1999 | publisher=Yorkin Publications, Gale Group | location=Waterford, CT | ISBN=0787640808 | via=encyclopedia.com | chapter-url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/women/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/cushing-sisters | access-date=March 20, 2023 }}</ref><ref name="Bumiller1999">{{cite news|last1=Bumiller|first1=Elisabeth|title=THE LIVES THEY LIVED: Betsey Cushing Whitney; The Last Princess|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/01/03/magazine/the-lives-they-lived-betsey-cushing-whitney-the-last-princess.html|access-date=22 August 2017|work=[The New York Times](/source/The_New_York_Times)|date=3 January 1999}}</ref> They were the daughters of [neurosurgeon](/source/Neurosurgery) [Harvey Williams Cushing](/source/Harvey_Williams_Cushing) and Katharine Stone Crowell:<ref name="DrHCObit1939">{{cite news|last1=Times|first1=Special To The New York|title=NOTABLES MOURN DR. HARVEY CUSHING; President Roosevelt's Wife and Mother and Son James at Funeral of Scientist THRONG OUTSIDE CHURCH Ex-Governor Cross, President Seymour of Yale and Former President Angell Attend|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1939/10/10/archives/notables-mourn-dr-harvey-cushing-president-roosevelts-wife-and.html|access-date=22 August 2017|work=[The New York Times](/source/The_New_York_Times)|date=10 October 1939}}</ref>
* [Minnie Benedict Cushing](/source/Mary_Benedict_Cushing) (1906–1978), [philanthropist](/source/Philanthropy) and art collector.
* [Betsey Cushing](/source/Betsey_Cushing_Roosevelt_Whitney) (1908–1998), philanthropist.
* [Barbara 'Babe' Cushing](/source/Babe_Paley) (1915–1978), [fashion editor](/source/fashion_editor) and style celebrity.
The Cushing Sisters were raised by a mother who saw "marriage as a form of female self-expression", and always sought to achieve success through exceptional husbands.<ref>{{Cite web |date=1992-03-15 |title=`SISTERS' EXPLORES MARRYING RICH - AND THE COST |url=https://www.deseret.com/1992/3/15/18973075/sisters-explores-marrying-rich-and-the-cost/ |access-date=2024-10-23 |website=Deseret News |language=en}}</ref> None of them attended college.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Raffensperger |first=John G. |date=March 2006 |title=Harvey Cushing: A life in surgery |url=https://www.jpedsurg.org/article/S0022-3468(05)01030-4/fulltext |access-date=23 October 2024 |website=Journal of Pediatric Surgery}}</ref>

In 2000, [Lifetime](/source/Lifetime_(TV_channel)) had started producing a movie about the sisters with [Rita Wilson](/source/Rita_Wilson) as executive producer. Lifetime saw it as "a sweeping piece. Their story covers the '40s, '50s and '60s in New York."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Staffpublished |first=B+C |date=2000-11-27 |title=The real golden girls |url=https://www.nexttv.com/news/real-golden-girls-95499 |access-date=2024-10-23 |website=Broadcasting Cable |language=en}}</ref>

The three daughters of [Robert Warren Miller](/source/Robert_Warren_Miller) ([Pia Getty](/source/Pia_Getty), [Marie-Chantal, Crown Princess of Greece](/source/Marie-Chantal%2C_Crown_Princess_of_Greece), [Alexandra von Fürstenberg](/source/Alexandra_von_F%C3%BCrstenberg)) were compared to the Cushing sisters by ''[Vanity Fair](/source/Vanity_Fair_(magazine))''.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Jacobs |first=Laura |date=June 1995 |title=The Millers' Tale |url=https://archive.vanityfair.com/article/1995/6/the-millers-tale |access-date=2024-10-23 |website=Vanity Fair |language=en-US}}</ref>

== Further reading ==

* {{Cite book |last=Graftin |first=David |title=The Sisters: Babe Mortimer Paley, Betsy Roosevelt Whitney, Minnie Astor Fosburgh : The Lives and Times of the Fabulous Cushing Sisters |date=1 January 1992 |publisher=Villard Books}}

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