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  1. I guessed Gloria Vanderbilt and Lee Radziwill, but I’m wrong on at least one. Wiki says both attended Miss Porter’s School, but they are 9 years apart in age.
    With bated breath….

  2. If I did it right, Google thinks there are three Oona O’Neil Chaplin photos and one Gloria Vanderbilt.

  3. Wow, Neo, this is the first “separated at birth” that you’ve posted in which I swear they are, in fact, the same person. The first and third picture especially.

    I have no idea who it is; but, she (they?) is (are?) stunningly beautiful.

    The last picture caught her at a bad angle; but one can still she her charming smile and beauty.

  4. My initial thought on seeing the first two was Natalie Merchant, but I know the photos are too old to be her.

  5. The first picture is absolutely breathtaking. The last two are Gloria V. The first(and, therefore, the second)is a drop-dead, staggering beauty.

  6. There are pictures of Jeanne Tripplehorn that look like these gals but she is of a different generation.

  7. I just realized that I got so confused by the remarkable resemblance that I accidentally posted three photos of one woman and one of the other by mistake. Arghhh! I’ve added an addendum to the post that corrects the problem by adding two more photos of person number 2—take a look above.

  8. Neo-Neocon: ” . . . I accidentally posted three photos of one woman and one of the other by mistake.”

    Okay then, I wasn’t going crazy in thinking that pic 1 and 3 were the same.

    P.S. I’m going crazy for other reasons; but not that.

  9. “Daughter Geraldine carries her mom’s look too, if a bit more thinly.”

    Yes…. now I see Geraldine & Natalie.

  10. Not long ago I came across a picture of Marilyn Monroe taken in 1948, before she became a blonde. Marilyn Monroe as brunette bore a strong resemblance to the wedding pictures taken in 1948 of an aunt of mine,who was about the same age as Marilyn Monroe.

  11. I’m confused, but I’m pretty sure the woman in the fourth and last photo is Gloria Vanderbilt. She has that top-and-bottom smile.

  12. mizpants:

    “Top-and-bottom smile”—that’s a good one. I think of it as a very slight grimace.

    But they do all look alike, don’t they? Really, when I was looking up the early photos, I had some trouble telling the two women apart (thus, my initial error with that third photo).

  13. EVERYONE–the answer here:

    Yes, the first lovely is Oona O’Neill Chaplin, daughter of Eugene O’Neill, and later the 18-year-old bride of the 50-something Charlie Chaplin, and mother of his 2000-or-so children. Chaplin and she remained married until his death 34 years later at the age of 88 (Chaplin described their meeting as “the happiest event of my life”, and claimed to have found “perfect love”, according to Wiki).

    Oona is no longer alive, but Gloria Vanderbilt, her friend and contemporary and the mother of Anderson Cooper and many pairs of blue jeans, is. She, of course, is the second woman.

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