| stanley5.blogspot.com 史丹利五提供Edie Sedgwick - Warhol's Superstar Music The Velvet Underground - After Hours Edith Minturn "Edie" Sedgwick (April 20, 1943 -- November 16, 1971)[1] was an American actress, socialite, and heiress who starred in several of Andy Warhol's short films in the 1960s. Edie Sedgwick was born in Santa Barbara, California to Alice Delano de Forest (1908--1988)[2] and Francis Minturn Sedgwick, (1904--1967)[3] a sculptor, philanthropist and rancher. She was named after her father's aunt (his mother's older sister). Sedgwick's family was long established in Massachusetts history, with members having been painted by the artist John Singer Sargent. Edie's seventh-great grandfather, Robert Sedgwick,[4] was the first Major General of the Massachusetts Bay Colony settling in Charlestown, Massachusetts in 1635.[5] Edie's family later originated from Stockbridge, Massachusetts where her great-great-great grandfather Judge Theodore Sedgwick had settled after the American Revolution. Theodore Sedgwick was the first to plead and win a case for the freedom of a black woman, Elizabeth Freeman, under the Massachusetts Bill of Rights that declared all men to be born free and equal.[6] Sedgwick's mother was the daughter of Henry Wheeler de Forest (President and Chairman of the Board of the Southern Pacific Railroad, and a direct descendant of Jesse de Forest whose Dutch West India Company helped to settle New Amsterdam.)[7] Jesse de Forest was also Edie's seventh ... |
