Peaches Browning Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Peaches Browning Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Peaches Browning (June 23, 1910 â€" August 23, 1956), born Frances

Belle Heenan, was an American actress. She was married to New York

City real estate developer Edward West "Daddy" Browning (1875 â€"

1934). Their story became one of the most sensational "scandals" of

the Roaring Twenties. It is often cited in journalism history texts as

an example of the excesses of tabloid newspapers during the

era.Browning and Heenan met at a sorority dance on the evening of

March 5, 1926, at the Hotel McAlpin and immediately began a very

public courtship, despite the difference in their ages. Browning was

51, Heenan was 15. Browning, who reveled in publicity, paraded Heenan

in front of the paparazzi cameras as he lavished her with expensive

gifts (spending $1000 a day on shopping trips) and took her to New

York's finest restaurants in his distinctive peacock blue Rolls Royce

automobile. On April 10, 1926, mere weeks after they met, Peaches and

"Daddy" were wed in the village of Cold Springs, NY, far from media

scrutiny. Both Peaches' father and her mother gave their permission

for the marriage, which took place in part to thwart a campaign by

Vincent Pisarra of the New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty

to Children to halt the May/December relationship.On October 2, 1926,

Peaches and her mother loaded up their belongings and left the marital

residence at the Kew Gardens Inn. Under New York law at the time

divorce was only possible if one party admitted adultery, so Peaches

tried to obtain a legal separation, claiming cruelty, while Browning

filed a counter-claim of abandonment. The White Plains, New York trial

drew intense coverage by New York City tabloid newspapers such as the

New York Daily News, the rival New York Daily Mirror and the more

louche New York Graphic, which published a series of notorious

composographs of the couple.The story was covered in depth by the

national newspapers, from the tabloids to the New York Times and the

couple became well known in U.S. popular culture of the time. Their

romance is referenced in the 1927 Gershwin musical comedy Funny Face

and F. Scott Fitzgerald's short story, The Love Boat, published the

same year. Among the notable aspects of the case were Peaches'

allegations of odd behavior by her husband, including the fact that he

kept a honking African goose in their bedroom. The phrase "Don't be a

goof," which Daddy allegedly used as an insult to Peaches, came into

national vogue, and later turned up in the lyrics of the title song

from the 1936 Rodgers and Hart musical comedy On Your Toes.
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