Watch online Wall Street 1987 Language English Subtitles No Runtime 126 min WATCH ONLINE. What happened on June 21, 1987. A Midyear Guide 1987 : part two: The Stock Market . Some Bittersweet Memories of Life With Father : Like Father, Like Son FRED. Wall Street (1987): The Stockbroker's Son and the Decade of. the relationship between father and son became increasingly stormy. like most Americans. Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story (1987). she has to people who pay her attention so they will like her. son, a dead mother, a bad father. Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story (1. I think most would say that Farrah Fawcett gave two very good performances: The Burning Bed and Small Sacrifices. I’ll give her one of those, but I actually think her best performance is here in “Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story,” a sudser that is a gift to any actress because Barbara Hutton’s life had everything dramatic imaginable. There’s so much to play here! In the three miniseries about some of the 2.
![]() Century’s wealthiest women, this one is right in the middle. “Little Gloria, Happy At Last,” is sublime, even if it’s only about Gloria Vanderbilt as a young child. “Too Rich” with Lauren Bacall as Doris Duke is a lot tougher to get through than the others. This one is right in the middle with Farrah ideally cast as tragic oft- married Barbara Hutton. Let’s go back to 1. F. W. Woolworth (Burl Ives) is opening his 1. He’s giving a speech at the opening, giving Burl Ives a cheesy speech into which to sink his considerably over- ripe chops and then gives an even harsher one to his daughter, who has married Franklyn Hutton (brother of E. F.), all of this witnessed by five- year- old Barbara, his granddaughter. Old F. W.’s speech about the lout Franklyn reminds his daughter all super rich people need to start life out on a tragic foot (or at least the rich who make it to TV, and let’s face it, Barbara’s life was TV- ready the whole time it was happening), so she kills herself so Barbara can have that drama. Yup, less than five minutes after the credits, Mom is dead. But not pretty on the bed with her hands clasped, slumped in a couch in a fluffy nightgown. Franklyn Hutton (Kevin Mc. Carthy) isn’t much of a father either, giving Barbara the old “Mommy is in heaven” speech and then heaping presents on her instead of his love. Absentee parentism, another theme of these pieces. Franklyn, seemingly on one glass of wine, gets raging drunk and goes into dinner with the Woolworth family, where old F. W. is anything but pleased and the rest of the family pecks at hime. His speech about anyone being able to parent a child is heard by Barbara, setting up a complex that will haunt Barbara for the rest of her life (both a good Psychiatrist and anyone who watches these types of movies will tell you that). Barbara is packed off to live with her grandparents, though Mrs. Woolworth doesn’t have any lines and F. W. dies after a frightening scene explaining the scary organ he plays in the middle of the night to Barbara. Franklyn still can’t be bothered to play father, but laughs to remind everyone that F. W. died before making a will leaving everything to charity, so once Granny dies, Barbara gets a massive fortune. The governess notes that Franklyn left without saying goodbye to Barbara (now Fairuza Balk, who is supposed to be 1. Barbara was born in 1. Barbara has no friends, so the servants wrangle some up, but they are rather bitchy, setting up a second theme, that of Barbara giving away anything she has to people who pay her attention so they will like her. The girls traipse out with everything but a chotchke from her mother (Barbara won’t part with it, so the nastiest little girl in TV history whines, “then what can I take?”). Granny Woolworth kicks and Barbara gets a house and a stepmother at the same time, only dad and stepmom live next door, leaving Barbara all alone in her house with only servants. The poor thing sits at her window at New Year’s watching a hearty party next door. Cousin Jimmy Donahue, playing the gay best friend role (yes, even as a child), pops by to note how “different” they are from everyone else. They promise always to stay together. And finally Farrah takes over as Barbara, with eternal sidekick Bruce Davison as Jimmy. She’s at her own coming out party where Franklyn name drops, but Barbara is unimpressed. She still has no friends except Jimmy, as everyone is forced to be there. Aunt Marjorie Merriweather Post (Anne Francis) is kind to her, but all of the girls, now grown up, are as spiteful as possible. But, they introduce her to Prince Mdvani (Nicholas Clay), an impossibly handsome fellow. “If a guy’s going to marry awful rich, he better be very in love,” a drunk guy notes, which Barbara overhears, hammering in our theme again. “I feel like I’ve been entered at the Westminster Kennel show,” Barbara glowers, while men drool after her money. Barbara is packed off to London to meet the royal family to get her away from her lover, whom drunk Franklyn thinks is a drunk who wants to marry for money (no irony there, eh?). She meets all the royals, but things finally get going when Barbara is invited to France by Elsa Maxwell (played as a bull dyke by Miriam Margoyles). It’s there she again meets Prince Mdvani. He says all the right things to her, that “people will always be fascinated by you,” but lays on the charm as only an impoverished Prince from Georgia (not the state) can. Most importantly, he pretends to be into Barbara for Barbara herself. Barbara also meets Pauline de la Rochelle (Stephane Audan), who is sympathetic to her plight. Moments later, Barbara hears the latest song rage, “I Found a Million Dollar Baby (In a Five and Ten Cent Store)” and is horrified. “Doris Duke has more money than me,” she bleats, begging people not to talk about her money. Pot and kettle? Prince Mdvani, still making it all about Barbara, gets his woman into bed in an overly under- lit scene where he starts at her toes and works works up, only to be interrupted by a gaggle of “friends,” one of whom purposely brought everyone to the cabana to show them together. It’s now 1. Franklyn arrives in London (Barbara stays at The Dorchester, where Liz and Dick would stay years later) to talk Barbara out of playing around with Prince Mdvani, who is, oh, I didn’t mention this, married. Franklyn offers $5. K to Prince Mdvani to go away, and the Prince and his sister insist it’s all about love. The sister would be happy to take $1 million, $5.
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