Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris Duke

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Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris Duke

Genre	Drama, Miniseries
Directed by	John Erman
Starring	Lauren Bacall Richard Chamberlain Lindsay Frost Hayden Panettiere Kathleen Quinlan
Narrated by	Lauren Bacall
Composer(s)	Patrick Williams
Country of origin	United States
Language(s)	English
No. of episodes	4
Production
Executive producer(s)	Martin Rabbett Robert M. Sertner Bernard Sofronski Frank von Zerneck
Producer(s)	Richard D. Arredondo John Erman Stephanie Germai] Randy Sutter
Associate producer(s)	Ted Babcock Peter Sadowski
Editor(s)	Mark Conte Paul Dixon
Location(s)	Hawaii Los Angeles, California Montreal, Quebec
Running time	192 minutes (48 minutes per episode)
Broadcast
Original channel	CBS
Original run	February 21, 1999 – February 24, 1999
External links
IMDb profile

Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris Duke is a four-part miniseries that first aired on CBS in 1999. It is based on the novel The Richest Girl in the World: The Extravagant Life and Fast Times of Doris Duke, and presents a dramatized account of the actual life and happenings of the heiress, philanthropist, and once richest woman in the world, Doris Duke. It has since been re-aired on The Hallmark Channel, and on Lifetime combined together and presented as a 192 minute movie. The film stars Hayden Panettiere as young Doris Duke, Lindsay Frost as 20 to 50 year old Doris Duke, and Lauren Bacall as an elderly Doris Duke.

[edit] Plot Outline

Doris Duke, the famous real-life billionairess, is seen going over her life as she prepares to die. Her life includes the early death of her loving father, being raised by a cold mother, two marriages and numerous affairs that still leave her hungry for love, a fascination with mystics and reincarnation, and a disastrous adoption late in life. Even now as she is dying, her roller-coaster life has one last bump in it: her butler, Bernard Lafferty, is suspected of arranging her death so he can get all her money.