Debutante

This was an easy to read, though painful, biography on Miss Brenda Frazier, a one-time debutante who died before her time. It is easy to read this book and think of some of the celebrities in our culture today who are famous for being famous and wonder if they will meet the same fate. Hopefully not. It's hard to believe that someone did not step in and stop her from herself, but maybe she was so use to getting her way it would not have mattered.

This is a well-written, well-researched biography of Brenda Frazier, a woman long forgotten, whose only claim to fame was having been one of the most famous debutantes of all time. By 1938, when she was only seventeen and had her spectacular debut into formal society, she was the toast of the town. At the time, her image was in every newspaper and magazine, and stories about her abounded. The public seemed unable to get enough of her. She later became a part of what was known as Cafe Society and was known as a society glamour girl. The author lays his subject's life bare for the reader, skillfully describing the social milieu of the time that allowed such a nonentity to become so famous. She was the Paris Hilton of her day. Despite her millions of dollars, she became a miserable, self-absorbed rich woman who lived a shallow and vapid life. Addicted to drugs and alcohol, Brenda Frazier would become a bulimic anorexic that would go on to have a couple of failed marriages and a child whom she shamefully neglected. Considering the fact that this woman did nothing worthwhile and was little more than a silly twit, makes one marvel that the public was at all interested in her.