Elizabeth Arden
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Elizabeth Arden (December 31, 1881 – October 18, 1966), also known as Elizabeth N. Graham,[2] was a Canadian-American businesswoman who founded what is now Elizabeth Arden, Inc., and built a cosmetics empire in the United States.
Background
She was born Florence Nightingale Graham on her family's farm in Woodbridge, Ontario, Canada. She played with her birth date, but although her birth record seems to have disappeared, census records and a statutory declaration by her older brother, William Pearce Graham (1877–1959), both put the date at 1881. The property is currently home to the Vaughan Grove community. Her parents had immigrated to Canada from Cornwall, United Kingdom, in the 1870s. Her father, William Graham, was Scottish; her mother, Susan (née Tadd), was Cornish and had arranged for a wealthy aunt in Cornwall to pay for her children's education.[3]
After dropping out of nursing school in Toronto,[4] she joined her elder brother in Manhattan, working briefly as a bookkeeper for the E. R. Squibb pharmaceutical company.[2] While there, Arden spent hours in their lab, learning about skincare. She then worked for Eleanor Adair, an early beauty culturist, as a "treatment girl".
Arden was allegedly a dedicated suffragette, and there is a story that she marched for women's rights in 1912. It is a popular fiction that she supplied the marchers with red lipstick as a sign of solidarity,[5][6] but there is little contemporary evidence supporting this.[7] Women taking part in the 1912 march were advised to wear the same $7 straw hat, wear white, and to bring their children, to demonstrate their responsibility and simplicity. The use of cosmetics was never mentioned, which is hardly surprising: bold red lipstick still had tawdry associations with the theatre. Even as late as 1920 Arden herself was dismissive of "powder and rouge ... so obvious in their artifice that their use was considered in questionable taste".[8]
Career
In 1909, Arden formed a partnership with Elizabeth Hubbard, another culturist. The business relationship dissolved in 1910.[9] Wanting to have a trade name, she used "Elizabeth" to save money on her salon signs. She chose the last name, "Arden", from a nearby farm. Thus the trade name "Elizabeth Arden" was formed.[6] From there, Arden founded the Red Door salon in New York in 1910, which has remained synonymous with her name ever since (see under Elizabeth Arden, Inc.).[citation needed]
In 1912, Arden traveled to France to learn beauty and facial massage techniques used in the Parisian beauty salons. She returned with a collection of rouges and tinted powders that she had created. She began expanding her international operations in 1915 and started opening salons across the world. In 1934, she opened the Maine Chance residential spa in Rome, Maine, the first destination beauty spa in the United States. It operated until 1970.[10]
Arden was largely responsible for establishing makeup as proper and appropriate, even necessary, for a ladylike image; previously makeup had often been associated with lower classes and prostitutes. She targeted middle-aged and plain women for whom beauty products promised a youthful, beautiful image.[citation needed] In her salons and through her marketing campaigns, she stressed teaching women how to apply makeup and pioneered such concepts as scientific formulation of cosmetics, beauty makeovers, and coordinating colors of eye, lip and facial makeup.[citation needed]
In 1962, the French government awarded Arden the Légion d'Honneur, in recognition of her contribution to the cosmetics industry.[1]
Horse racing
Arden was involved in the sport of Thoroughbred racing for many years. Her stable, Maine Chance Farm (named for her spa), owned – among other stakes winners – the 1947 Kentucky Derby winner, Jet Pilot.
Personal life and death
Arden was married to Thomas Jenkins Lewis and to Prince Michael Evlanov. Both times, she divorced them.[11]
Arden died at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan on October 18, 1966. She was interred in the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Sleepy Hollow, New York, under the name Elizabeth N. Graham.[12][13]
In popular culture
The musical War Paint dramatizes her rivalry with competitor Helena Rubinstein. After a successful tryout at Chicago's Goodman Theater, the show opened on Broadway at the Nederlander Theatre on April 6, 2017, earning four Tony Award nominations, including Best Actress in a Leading Role for Christine Ebersole's portrayal of Arden, as well as for Patti Lupone for her role as Rubinstein.[14] and closed on November 5, 2017.[15]
The comedy Lip Service by the Australian dramatist John Misto chronicles the life and career of Helena Rubinstein and her rivalry with Elizabeth Arden and Revlon. Lip Service premiered April 26, 2017, at the Park Theatre in London, under the title Madame Rubinstein,[16] before opening at Sydney's Ensemble Theatre in August of the same year.
Elizabeth Arden, as student nurse Florence Nightingale Graham, appeared in an episode of the CBC period drama Murdoch Mysteries (October 1, 2018), portrayed by Kathryn Alexandre.[17]
A contract dispute that Arden faced with a former employee led the 1953 court case Crabtree v. Elizabeth Arden Sales Corp, which is now considered a seminal case on the application of the statute of frauds.[citation needed] Most law schools include this case in their required contract law course.[citation needed] (It is curious that "Graham's" love interest in the Murdoch Mysteries was named "Crabtree".)
References
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- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Who Was Elizabeth Arden?". ThoughtCo. Retrieved February 27, 2018.
- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Arden, Elizabeth (1878–1966)". encyclopedia.com. Retrieved May 27, 2023.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Sawyers, June Skinner (1996). Famous Firsts of Scottish-Americans. Pelican Publishing Company. p. 11. ISBN 978-1-56554-122-1.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Davidson, Hilary (December 5, 2003). Frommer's Toronto 2004. Wiley. p. 262. ISBN 978-0-7645-4060-8.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Elizabeth Arden - Entrepreneur - Biography". www.biography.com. June 19, 2019. Retrieved October 18, 2020.
- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Lewis, Jone Johnson (2015). "ThoughtCo". Retrieved October 18, 2020.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.www.portfoliobox.net. "Elizabeth Arden and the Case of the Missing Lipstick". Catherine Buckland. Retrieved May 18, 2021.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Arden, Elizabeth (1920). The Quest for the Beautiful. p. 4.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."BUSINESS TROUBLES". New York Times. August 16, 1910.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.McMillan, Susan (June 13, 2014). "Former Elizabeth Arden estate on Long Pond for sale". Kennebec Journal. Augusta, Maine. Retrieved June 13, 2014.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Research Guides: This Month in Business History: Cosmetic Entrepreneur Elizabeth Arden Born".
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."The Original Beauty Queen: The Story of Elizabeth Arden". Hanna. January 30, 2017. Retrieved February 27, 2018.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Wilson, Scott (August 19, 2016). Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons, 3d ed. McFarland. pp. 1480–1481 (Kindle locations). ISBN 978-1-4766-2599-7.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Tony Awards 2018 - Broadway.com". www.broadway.com. Retrieved October 4, 2018.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Libbey, Peter (October 13, 2017). "LuPone Surgery Forces 'War Paint' to Announce Early Closing". The New York Times. Retrieved October 4, 2018.
- ^ Madame Rubinstein by John Misto, thesoandsoartsclub.com. Retrieved 2 December 2021.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Operation Murdoch". Retrieved October 4, 2018 – via www.imdb.com.
General references
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Cordery, Stacy A. (2024). Becoming Elizabeth Arden: The Woman Behind the Global Beauty Empire. Viking. ISBN 978-0525559764.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Woodhead, Lindy (2004). War Paint. Virago. p. 94. ISBN 978-1-84408-049-6.
Further reading
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Haag, Karin Loewen (1999). "Arden, Elizabeth". In Commire, Anne (ed.). Women in World History: A biographical encyclopedia. Vol. 1. Waterford, CT: Yorkin Publications, Gale Group. pp. 442–446. ISBN 978-0787640804.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Marshall, Mary (2008). Great Breeders and Their Methods. Russell Meerdink Co. Ltd. ISBN 978-0-929346-82-3.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Peiss, Kathy (2011). Hope in a jar: The making of America's beauty culture. University of Pennsylvania Press.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Willett, Julie A. (2010). The American Beauty Industry Encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO. pp. 22–25.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Woodhead, Lindy (2004). War Paint. Virago. ISBN 978-1-84408-049-6.
External links
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- Elizabeth Arden at Elizabeth Arden, Inc. (retail website)
- Elizabeth Arden at Elizabeth Arden, Inc. (corporate website)
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- FBI dossier on Elizabeth Arden
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