Bright young things
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The Bright Young Things, or Bright Young People,[1][2] was a nickname given by the tabloid press to a group of bohemian young aristocrats and socialites in 1920s London.[3] They threw elaborate fancy dress parties, went on elaborate treasure hunts through nighttime London, drank heavily and used drugs—all of which was enthusiastically covered by journalists such as Tom Driberg.[4] They inspired a number of writers, including Nancy Mitford (Highland Fling), Anthony Powell (A Dance to the Music of Time), Henry Green (Party Going) and the poet John Betjeman (A Subaltern's Love Song). Evelyn Waugh's 1930 novel Vile Bodies, adapted as the 2003 film Bright Young Things, is a satirical look at this scene.[4] Cecil Beaton began his career in photography by documenting this set, of which he was a member.[5]
List of Bright Young People
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- Harold Acton
- Patrick Balfour
- Cecil Beaton
- John Betjeman
- Edward Burra
- Robert Byron
- Sheila Chisholm
- Daphne Fielding
- Edward Gathorne-Hardy
- Babe Plunket-Greene
- Bryan Guinness
- Gavin Henderson
- Brian Howard
- Arthur Jeffress
- Teresa Jungman
- Zita Jungman
- Barbara Ker-Seymer
- Oliver Messel
- Diana Mitford
- Nancy Mitford
- Beverley Nichols
- Brenda Dean Paul
- Loelia Ponsonby
- Anthony Powell
- Edith Sitwell
- Osbert Sitwell
- Sacheverell Sitwell
- Stephen Tennant
- Henry Thynne
- William Walton
- Sylvia Townsend Warner
- Evelyn Waugh
- Rex Whistler
- Sunday Wilshin
- Olivia Wyndham
- Henry Yorke
- Elizabeth Ponsonby
References
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- ↑ Philip Hoare, ‘Tennant, Stephen James Napier (1906–1987)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004
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Sources
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External links
- Bright Young Things (2003), IMDB.com; Written and directed by Stephen Fry, based on Evelyn Waugh's novel Vile Bodies
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