Little Gloria... Happy at Last

• Director: Waris Hussein
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• Genre: Drama
• Movie Type: Biopic
• Themes: Custody Battles
• Main Cast: Lucy Gutteridge, Angela Lansbury, Christopher Plummer
• Release Year: 1984
• Country: UK/CA/US
• Run Time: 180 minutes

Plot

Little Gloria...Happy at Last is the two-part TV adaptation of Barbara Goldsmith's 1980 best-seller. The film concerns the true-life custody battle over the daughter of millionaire Reggie Vanderbilt (Christopher Plummer) and his "child bride," Gloria Morgan (Lucy Gutteridge). When the over-imbibing Reggie dies, Gloria enjoys the high life as a wealthy widow, leaving her daughter in the care of her sister-in-law, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (chillingly portrayed by Angela Lansbury in her TV-movie debut). Gloria's personal income, predicated on the child's inheritance, is severely cut, whereupon Gloria sues the indomitable Vanderbilts for custody of her daughter. We won't tell you the outcome, but we can tell you that "Little Gloria," the ten-year-old focus of the custody fight, grew up to be the same Gloria Vanderbilt who went into the designer jeans business. Little Gloria...Happy at Last was originally telecast October 24 and 25, 1982. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Cast

Martin Balsam; Bette Davis - Alice Vanderbilt; Jennifer Dundas; Lucy Gutteridge - Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt; John Hillerman; Barnard Hughes; Dana Ivey; Angela Lansbury - Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney; Christopher Plummer - Reggie Vanderbilt; Maureen Stapleton; Michael Gross; Glynis Johns

Credit

Julie Weiss - Costume Designer, Waris Hussein - Director, Malcolm Cooke - Editor, Edgar J. Scherick - Executive Producer, William Hanley - Screenwriter

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