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The searing drama follows the titular socialite (Tessa Thompson) over the course of one opulent, suffocating party.
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Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 31 Oct. 2025
In Dreams, Franco recalls a resourceful Chastain raiding her closet at home for luxury costumes to play a wealthy socialite on set.
—Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 30 Oct. 2025
Enter Harriet Hemenway and her cousin Minna Hall, two Boston socialites who read about the egret slaughter and decided enough was enough.
—Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 23 Oct. 2025
Elizabeth Willing Powel was a well-to-do Philadelphia socialite, one of many characters in the series Burns highlights whose stories have been all but erased from the popular history of the time.
—Carlo Versano, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025
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Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 31 Oct. 2025
In Dreams, Franco recalls a resourceful Chastain raiding her closet at home for luxury costumes to play a wealthy socialite on set.
—Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 30 Oct. 2025
Enter Harriet Hemenway and her cousin Minna Hall, two Boston socialites who read about the egret slaughter and decided enough was enough.
—Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 23 Oct. 2025
Elizabeth Willing Powel was a well-to-do Philadelphia socialite, one of many characters in the series Burns highlights whose stories have been all but erased from the popular history of the time.
—Carlo Versano, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025
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“Socialite.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/socialite. Accessed 7 Nov. 2025.
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socialite
noun
so·cial·ite
ˈsō-shə-ˌlīt 
: a person well-known in fashionable society
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