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Brenda Diana Duff Frazier (June 9, 1921 – May 3, 1982) was an American socialite popular during the Depression era. Her December 1938 debutante ball was so heavily publicized worldwide, she eventually appeared on the cover of Life magazine for that reason alone.
Heartbreakingly, Brenda Frazier was perfectly healthy at the time she began restricting her diet. Classmates described her as a little “chubby” with a “plump face,” but she was also only 13 years old and still rapidly changing.
Nov 16, 2019 · Brenda Frazier’s ubiquity, hustle, and fame inspired the gossip columnist Walter Winchell to coin the term “celebutante,” specifically for her.
May 6, 1982 · Brenda Frazier Kelly Chatfield-Taylor, whose name was once synonymous with glittering debutante balls and the social whirl, died of cancer Monday at Newton-Wellesley Hospital in Boston.
Dec 31, 2020 · Brenda Frazier, as her own biographer stated, “didn’t do a damn thing with her life and spent the last 20 years of it in bed.” If that’s the case, then what makes Brenda Frazier worth remembering?
May 12, 1987 · In 1938 American mass media -- including afternoon newspapers, flash radio broadcasts and picture magazines like LIFE -- seemed obsessed with the impending coming-out of a seventeen-year-old socialite named Brenda Frazier.
Brenda Diana Duff Frazier (June 9, 1921 – May 3, 1982) was an American socialite popular during the Depression era. Her December 1938 debutante ball was so heavily publicized worldwide, she eventually appeared on the cover of Life magazine for that reason alone.
