Life of the Party: The Pamela Harriman Story

Life of the Party: The Pamela Harriman Story

96 mins | Drama, TV Movie | Oct. 12, 1998

Told mostly in flashbacks, the film tells the story of Pamela Digby Churchill Hayward Harriman, one of the greatest and probably most famous courtesans of the twentieth century. While not showing her childhood, first marriage to Winston Churchill's son, or most of her affairs, we do get to see her affair and eventual marriage to Broadway producer Leland Hayward, and then her marriage to politician Averell Harriman, with whom she had an affair while both were married to others in World War II. We also see her as ambassador to France during her last years, and her death in 1997. While some (mostly her lovers) adored her, others (mostly her son and her husbands' children) hated her.

Life of the Party: The Pamela Harriman Story

96 mins | Drama, TV Movie | Oct. 12, 1998

Life of the Party: The Pamela Harriman Story
Told mostly in flashbacks, the film tells the story of Pamela Digby Churchill Hayward Harriman, one of the greatest and probably most famous courtesans of the twentieth century. While not showing her childhood, first marriage to Winston Churchill's son, or most of her affairs, we do get to see her affair and eventual marriage to Broadway producer Leland Hayward, and then her marriage to politician Averell Harriman, with whom she had an affair while both were married to others in World War II. We also see her as ambassador to France during her last years, and her death in 1997. While some (mostly her lovers) adored her, others (mostly her son and her husbands' children) hated her.
Producers
Original title Life of the Party: The Pamela Harriman Story
Directors Waris Hussein
Writers Kathy Kirtland Silverman, Lisa Friedman Bloch

Cast

Ann-Margret

as Pamela Harriman

Mitchell Ryan

as Averell Harriman

Gail Strickland

as Betsey Cushing Roosevelt Whitney

Natalie Radford

as Pamela Harriman at 20

John DeMita

as Peter Duchin

Susan Ruttan

as Janet

Sydney Walsh

as Minnie Churchill

Joan Severance

as Paley

Cynthia Harris

as Kathleen

Hal Landon Jr.

as Episcopal Bishop