In Downton Abbey, Elizabeth McGovern played Lady Cora Grantham, an American heiress who married a cash-strapped British aristocrat. Which makes her the ideal host of this series seen on the Smithsonian Channel. Spanning the late 1800s to the 20th century, it tells the stories of real-life American millionairesses and stars who changed Britain and Europe: Consuelo Vanderbilt, Grace Kelly, Peggy Guggenheim, Barbara Hutton, Nancy Astor, Pauline de Rothschild, and more. "A vivid, little-known history" - Daily Beast. 7 episodes, 5 ½ hrs, 2 DVDs, SDH.

Episodes

Cash for Class
It's 1895 and the phenomenon of the "Transatlantic Marriage Trade" has reached its height. Daughters of America's new super-rich industrialists married into British royalty at a rapid pace, but these unions came at a price, finan

Details

Packaging: Boxed set
Run Time: 325 minutes
Format: Widescreen
Number of discs: 2
Language: English
Foreign Language Subtitles: No
Color or B&W: Color
CC: No
SDH

Cast

Elizabeth McGovern, Charles Jennings, Clive Aslet, Fiona Herbert 8th Countess of Carnarvon, Jessica Fellowes, Earl Charles Spencer, William Astor, John Spencer-Churchill, Lade Henrietta Spencer-Churchill