Talk:Dina Merrill

Poor references

I was recently working on the article about Merrill's husband, Ted Hartley, and the referencing there is extremely poor as well. I would really like to see some solid reliable sources to confirm the information that's in their respective articles. --Elonka 05:19, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

He overdosed in 2010 & she begged me to help her hide his body at her Rivendel Farm on Casitas Pass - where all the other bodies are, including her daughter Nina Rumbaugh’s husband Mr Craig & several of another daughter ( of her 12 illegitimate daughters ) Stefanie Powers regects. “I can never sell that place, she said, there are so many bodies buried there I can’t risk anyone doing any digging to develop it! Every body gets a whole bag of lime, then there’s only skulls left. And you plant a tree on top of that ~ have you noticed how many trees we’ve got there?! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.132.15.214 (talk) 20:43, 4 January 2022 (UTC)

After Ted OD’d she got his twin brother to fill in for him socially! She then began seeing his son ~ who is known professionally as Justin Hartley the television actor who helped her hide the body. Two of her illegitimate daughters are the twins she had with the Writer Max Evans in Taos. Another of the girls is Mrs Elings who is in charge of the Santa Barbara Elings Park made on Dina’s land there. Chiara Mastroiani, daughter of Marcelo, also helped hide the body and got Dina’s Santa Barbara house decorated by Cocteau. Mary Smith’s (born Joan Spreckles) son Trent also helped run the bulldozer & got a condo by Carpinteria Cemetery. 2603:8001:2900:4F9:998C:CA07:C61C:ADD (talk) 03:13, 11 November 2024 (UTC)

Dina had another batch of overdoses at her new house attached to the park. It was reported on the local television news in a blind item which stated “five people overdosed at the home of a famous actress, only two survived.” ~ they included another son of infamous Mary Smith, known as Pike, who owned the television station & Santa Barbara magazine. Dina was bribed $150 stolen Million by the London mafia to front their 5-5-05 scam to steal the $4Billion Estate of the murdered-for-it Paul Getty Jr. for the Queen. Tadvague (talk) 03:26, 11 November 2024 (UTC)

Year of birth

Any sources that she was born in 1923? 1925 is the usual year cited as her year of birth. Quis separabit? 23:32, 27 December 2013 (UTC)

To answer my own question: these links appear to confirm 1923 as year of birth, as does Intelius:

• http://poststar.com/lifestyles/browsing-the-palace-of-the-adirondacks-camp-topridge/article_3258be0a-272e-5f74-8212-c15accf23353.html
• http://www.paulbowles.org/marjoriemerriweatherpost.html

Quis separabit? 22:00, 30 December 2013 (UTC)

Born on Dec. 29, 1923 and not on Dec, 9th, 1923

In a hardback copy of the book about the grandfather of Nedenia Marjorie Hutton's (later known as the actress Dina Merrill) entitled C. W. Post: the Hour and the Man--a Biography with Genealogical Supplement that was commissioned by Dina Merrill's own mother, Marjorie Merriweather Post, written by Nettie Leitch Major, published in 1963 by Judd & Detweiler, Inc., Washington, D.C.,, the book plainly states in two places that Nedenia Marjorie Hutton's birth was in 1923, on page 173--"Marjorie Close was living in the Burden house when she married Ed Hutton, and it was there daughter Nedenia was born to them in December of 1923". And the same book also states on page 297: "Nedenia Marjorie Hutton...was born December 29, 1923..."

Further evidence that Nedenia Marjorie Hutton's (later known as Dina Merrill) birth was actually in 1923 and not in 1925 is from an archived article in The New York Times, on this page:

http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F60E15F93B5B147B93C0A81782D85F458485F9

Here's a partial excerpt of the New York Times article about her debutante ball and a party held in September:

NEDENIA M. HUTTON FETED AT ROSLYN; Several Hundred Young Men and Women Attend Supper Dance for Debutante HELD ON DAVIES ESTATE Many Dinners Given Before Event -- Honor Guest Makes Formal Debut on Dec. 20. Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES. (); Published on September 12, 1941. Additional note: At the time of her debut to society, Nedenia Marjorie Hutton's mother was married to Joseph Davies, who was the second Ambassador from the United States to the former Soviet Union. Nedenia Hutton was not yet known as the actress Dina Merrill.

Furthermore, according to Wikipedia's own article on debutantes, it states that their debuts were typically given when the girls were 17 or 18 years old. See: https://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Debutante. Basic math show proves she was 18 years old two months after this NYTimes article was published: 1941 - 1923 = 18 years old, precisely the age of most debutantes of the time.

Finally, the Hillwood Estate and Gardens website says that Nedenia Post Hutton (later Dina Merrill) was born on December 29, 1923. See: http://www.hillwoodmuseum.org/about-hillwood/marjorie-merriweather-post/family This is official website of the last Washington estate and home of Dina Merrill's mother, the famous American heiress, socialite and noted philanthropist Marjorie Merriweather Post. Can someone please add these sources as I am not familiar with how to do this on Wikipedia. Thank you. FifthTownsend (talk) 03:52, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

Done, correct date of birth is actually December 29. Sourced and confirmed as per http://www.hillwoodmuseum.org/about-hillwood/marjorie-merriweather-post/family and Intelius as well, by the way. Quis separabit? 16:26, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

Image

I moved the image of Merrill with Short and Sheridan to the right because it was overlapping with reflinks, but the caption does not appear. Can anyone fix? Thanks. Quis separabit? 22:24, 13 June 2014 (UTC)

Never mind. Fixed it. Quis separabit? 16:56, 14 June 2014 (UTC)

Batman TV Series

She appeared alongside her then-husband Cliff Robertson that were first aired in 1968. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.237.34.211 (talk) 15:57, 14 December 2014 (UTC)

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Grace Kelly

Here, regarding Dina Merrill, we see 'During the late 1950s and 1960s, Merrill was believed to have intentionally been marketed as a replacement for Grace Kelly,[2] and in 1959, she was proclaimed "Hollywood's new Grace Kelly".[11]'

Dina Merrill appears in at least one Alfed Hitchcock episode. As we see in the article and talk page for Grace Kelly, Hitchcock could not coax Grace Kelly, who by then had become Princess Grace of Monaco, out of retirement. Carlm0404 (talk) 15:16, 31 July 2020 (UTC)

Marriages

Dina's age at first marriage, plus total years married, add up to more than her age at her death. 2600:6C46:6100:2801:68F5:D5A6:5566:74DC (talk) 13:54, 21 April 2024 (UTC)