During the fall of 1930 Barbara Woolworth Hutton attended forty separate balls, receptions, teas and brunches, including heiress Doris Duke's debut to society at Rough Point, the Duke family's 105-room summer "cottage" in Newport, Rhode Island. Aunt Marjorie gave a tea for five hundred people at her Fifth Avenue triplex, with the Meyer Davis orchestra providing entertainment. Barbara Hutton's own debutante ball was held on December 21, 1930, at Manhattan's first Ritz-Carlton Hotel (opened in 1910 and demolished in 1951), located at Madison Avenue and 46th Street. Her debutante extravaganza was attended by one thousand people from New York's upper-crust Social Register families, and other debutantes with their male escorts. Entertainment was provided by four orchestras, the popular singer Rudy Vallée, and the singer-actor Maurice Chevalier, dressed in a Santa Claus costume, handed out expensive gifts to the guests. The high-society bandleader Lester Lanin began his long and distinguished career at Barbara Hutton's coming-out party; and two hundred waiters served dinners and breakfasts, and thousands of bottles of Champagnes were consumed. The famous New York socialite Brooke Astor described this event as: "...to die from―the epitome of the big money deb affair."

On May 19, 1931, Barbara Hutton was formally presented to Queen Mary and King George V at Buckingham Palace, and the next day Edward, the Prince of Wales held a garden party on the palace's grounds. Following London, Barbara Hutton, her father and stepmother traveled to Paris, where they took a suite at the Hôtel Ritz. In Paris, Barbara Hutton first met Elsa Maxwell, noted for her parties and introductions of rich American women looking to marry into impoverished European royalty. Paris was followed by stays in Biarritz, France and Rome, Italy.

Near the end of January 1933 Barbara Hutton sailed to the Far East, with a stay in Ubud, Bali, Indonesia. While in Bangkok, Siam (now Thailand), she met up with Prince Alexis Mdivani. In April 1933, an announcement of her engagement to the Georgian "prince"― just divorced from Louise Astor Van Alen, a Manhattan socialite and a descendant of John Jacob Astor―outraged her father, who adamantly opposed any marriage, especially since his daughter had not yet reached the age of twenty-one. Barbara Hutton immediately ordered three custom built Rolls-Royces and gave one to her father as a present. After a prenuptial agreement was finalized and signed, giving Mdivani one million dollars and a substantial annual allowance, they were married in a civil ceremony in Paris on June 20, 1933, followed by a lavish formal wedding on June 22 at a Russian Orthodox cathedral. The international press strongly criticized Princess Mdivani (Hutton) for spending a small fortune on her wedding. With seventy pieces of luggage and trunks, the newlyweds spent their honeymoon at Lake Como, north of Milan, and the Lido in Venice. In 1934 the couple visited Japan and China, with more spending sprees, and gifts and large checks for Prince Mdivani. In Venice, Barbara bought Abbazia di San Gregorio, a 12th-century palazzo and former monastery directly on the Grand Canal, but Mdivani had the deed registered in his name. By the autumn of 1934, their marriage seemed irreconcilably doomed, and she ultimately filed for a divorce, which was granted in Reno, Nevada on May 13, 1935.

On November 14, 1933, Barbara Hutton's twenty-first birthday, she inherited one-third of Jennie Woolworth's estate and was now worth over $42 million―a fortune equivalent to $2–$2.5 billion dollars in today's value of the U.S. dollar. (At the height of the Great Depression in 1933, a worker's average annual wages were $1,550, a new house cost between $2,800 and $5,759, a new car averaged $630, gasoline cost just 10 cents a gallon, a loaf of bread cost 7 cents, a U.S. postage stamp was 3 cents and a daily newspaper cost 2 cents.) Her inheritance also provided an annual income from interest of nearly $2 million. Her original inheritance of $28 million had been parlayed into $42 million through careful investment and oversight by her father. Hutton was now one of the richest women in America at a time when the stock market had crashed, many banks had failed, businesses went bankrupt and millions of Americans and innumerable people in other countries found themselves struggling to make ends meet and were without jobs. Hutton's first act of generosity was a gift of $5 million to her father Franklyn, since he had nearly doubled the amount of her original inheritance when he managed her trust fund. The Hutton family emerged virtually unscathed from the Depression and they remained very rich. From the time of Hutton's inheritance the media regularly reported every detail of her extravagances and what would become a pattern of marriage and divorce throughout her life. Newspapers derided the young heiress, and Hutton was disdainfully mocked in the press and referred to as the "Poor Little Rich Girl" on the front page of the New York Post and regarded as such by the general public. On her twenty-second birthday in 1934, Hutton held an extravagant party for 2,000 guests at the Hôtel Ritz in Paris.

At age twenty-four, when Barbara Hutton was married to her second husband, Count Court von Haugwitz-Hardenberg-Reventlow from Denmark, she became concerned about threats to kidnap her baby son Lance Haugwitz-Reventlow, who was born in London, after a difficult Caesarian section operation, on February 24, 1936. She decided to give up her house near Marble Arch in London and look for something bigger and more secure. Friends suggested a large, abandoned and dilapidated Regency-style house called St. Dunstan's (originally called Hertford Villa), that recently had been partially destroyed by fire. In August 1936, Barbara Hutton bought the twelve and a half acres property located adjacent to The Regent's Park, demolished St. Dunstan's, and built a red brick Georgian mansion, designed by Glasgow-born architect Leonard Rome Guthrie. Barbara Hutton named her new home Winfield House, in memory of her grandfather, and she furnished it with a treasury of valuable paintings, Louis XVI furniture, Persian carpets, and Chinese objets d'art, and installed 18th century French paneling, oak parquet floors and marble bathrooms. Hutton also had planted several thousand trees, tall hedges and flower gardens on the grounds, and a ten-foot tall fence and modern security system were constructed around the perimeter. Ideal for grand entertaining, Barbara Hutton's estate had the second-largest private gardens in London, England, after those at Buckingham Palace. The Count and Countess Haugwitz-Reventlow and their son Lance, moved into Winfield House in 1937. Pressured by her husband, on December 16, 1937, Barbara Hutton renounced her United States citizenship―a move designed to save money on annual taxes, but which elicited a media frenzy of negative publicity in America.

Because of dangers from an impending World War II looming on the horizon, in October 1939 the couple, now legally separated and planning to divorce in America, along with Lance, left the London mansion and returned to New York. On arrival, Hutton, now the Countess Haugwitz-Reventlow, was greeted on the dock by union picketers from Woolworth stores with signs that read: "Babs, we live on $15.60 a week. Could you?". To bolster her public image, Barbara Hutton assisted the World War II effort by giving money to help the Free French Forces, and she donated her yacht to the U.S. government and used her image to help sell War Bonds. As a result, Hutton received some favorable media coverage rather than ridicule by the press. On December 5, 1940, Barbara's sixty-three year old father, Franklyn Laws Hutton, died from cirrhosis of the liver at Myrtle Grove, his 5,500-acre shooting plantation on the Edisto River in South Carolina.

In 1946, one year after the war had ended, Barbara Hutton returned to London to inspect Winfield House and found that her mansion had broken windows, dangling wires, buckled floorboards and peeling walls. The following day she offered to donate the London property to the United States government for a token sum of one United States dollar. After initial hesitation, a thank you letter was sent to Hutton, personally signed by President Harry F. Truman, accepting and acknowledging her "most generous and patriotic offer". Since 1955, Winfield House has been used as the official residence of the U.S. ambassadors to the Court of St. James's, and visiting presidents of the United States have traditionally stayed there when in London.

Soon after donating Winfield House, Barbara Hutton heard about a palace for sale in Tangier, Morocco, and she travelled to Tangier, staying at the Hôtel El Minzah, in order to inspect the property. Sidi Hosni was situated in the upper medina, just below the Kasbah, and there were panoramic views of the Bay of Tangier and the main city beach. Hutton immediately decided to purchase Sidi Hosni, offering to pay its owner, an American diplomat named Maxwell Blake, twice the amount of money which Generalissimo Francisco Franco of Spain had bid. During the 1800s the original site had been a prison for Moroccan debtors and it later housed a café. In 1870 it was acquired by a local Moroccan holy man or saint, Sidi Hosni. In 1925 Hosni's family sold the property to Times of London correspondent and world traveler Walter B. Harris, who combined seven houses into one large palace, embellishing Sidi Hosni with intricate Moroccan plasterwork and mosaic tiles. Harris created several large reception rooms, salons, interior courtyards, multilevel terraces and quiet, private gardens. Walter Burton Harris died in 1933, before completing his renovation project, and Sidi Hosni was then sold to Maxwell Blake, who completed work on the palace. Blake collected antique doors, windows, painted ceilings and other decorative items from palaces throughout Morocco, and he imported the finest craftsmen from Fez who worked for more than ten years to beautify the palace, creating an architectural fantasy.

Barbara Woolworth Hutton lived in Tangier, Morocco only during the summer months, beginning in 1947, up until her final stay in 1975. Invitations to her annual ball at Sidi Hosni—always the social event of the season—were much coveted. Hutton would invite 200 guests and 1,000 gate-crashers would show up at the entrance gate, only to be turned away. With the assistance of her friend, Dan Rudd, an American-born interior designer living in Paris, several large tents would be set up on the flat roof of her palace. During these events, Moroccan belly dancers would perform and entertain while waiters and waitresses dressed in Moroccan attire would serve hors d'oeuvres, drinks and food, while three separate orchestras flown in from the Caribbean or Mexico would perform jazz and calypso music. The Hon. David Herbert, her friend and Tangier's social arbiter for decades, advised Hutton on who and whom not to invite. The invitations always read: "Mrs. Barbara Woolworth Hutton requests the pleasure of your company...", and if the party were to be held on the terraces or the roof, there was an added note: "In Case of Wind, Your Hostess Requests You To Indulge Her By Coming Another Night." At other times, Hutton would hold some of her parties in the gardens at Guitta's Restaurant at the Place de Kowéit, the Parade, a popular restaurant and bar near the Place de France on the Rue de Fès, or in large tents set up near the Caves of Hercules outside Tangier. While on a trip to India, Hutton had bought the historic "Million Dollar Tapestry" from the Maharajah of Tripura. The 15th-century tapestry and complementary floor cushions were embroidered with gold threads and encrusted with diamonds, pearls, emeralds and rubies. But there were occasional thefts of gems, and Hutton had to retain security guards during her fêtes. Additionally, every room in her Tangier home had a $10,000 clock from Van Cleef & Arpels. In her Thousand and One Nights palace in Tangier, Hutton held court each summer, inviting her friends and acquaintances from all over the world, and Hutton paid their entire travel and hotel expenses.

While Jane Bowles was closer to Barbara Hutton, Paul Bowles was not overly fond of her as she had once expressed a dislike for his novel The Sheltering Sky. Paul Bowles wrote: "One summer when she gave a party, she brought thirty Reguibat camel drivers with their racing camels from the Sahara, a good thousand miles away, merely to form a garde d'honneur through which the guests would pass at the entrance of the house. But then she couldn't get rid of them. ...for many days after the party they encamped with their camels outside the walls of Sidi Hosni. The animals produced enough fertilizer during their stay to keep the flowering trees of Tangier blooming for a decade." She once entertained the U.S. Sixth Fleet when in port, with one party for the enlisted men and another for the officers. Hutton also held occasional parties for the Tangier police department, and others for her mostly poor neighbors. The presence of such an international celebrity in Tangier was a boon to the tourist industry in the city.

In Morocco, Barbara Hutton gave generous amounts of money to support local Tangier charities, and she arranged to feed hundreds of poor people in the city on a daily basis. As a diversion from Tangier, she would travel to Marrakech, or to Taroudant in the far south, where she rented for her friends, all of the stone cottages at La Gazelle d'Or, long regarded as one of the most luxurious and private of Morocco's hideaways. When her son Lance visited Morocco in 1962, her friend David Herbert made his first visit to La Gazelle d'Or in Taroudant, along with other guests. Throughout her lifetime, Hutton had sudden whims of generosity and would, on more than a few occasions, present a friend or even a mere acquaintance with a check, a Rolls-Royce, a Patek Philippe watch, jewelry, a sable coat, an entire wardrobe of clothing, or even a house.

Barbara Hutton wearing The Pasha of Egypt Diamond ring with its fine 38.19-carat round stone which she had recut at Cartier from its original slightly octagonal shape, and one of her tiaras set with the Vladimir emeralds. In 1936, Hutton paid about $1.2 million for an historic collection of emeralds which had once been owned by Catherine the Great of Russia and later by Edith Rockefeller McCormick. In 1947 Hutton commissioned Lucien Lachassagne of Cartier to fashion the emeralds into a tiara with diamonds which could also be worn as a necklace.

During Barbara Hutton's earliest years in Tangier, Paul and Jane Bowles lived close to her palace in their small house off Place Amrah in the upper Medina. On one visit to Sidi Hosni, Barbara Hutton gave Jane Bowles a ruby the size of an egg, which she later returned to Hutton, realizing its great value and out of loyalty to her friend who was prone to periodic drinking binges. Hutton owned large and important collections of historic gems: diamonds, emeralds and rubies, perfectly matched white, black and yellow pearl necklaces with pearls the size of cherries, and jade. One of her pearl necklaces was once owned by Marie-Antoinette, the Queen of France. Hutton's jewelry collections also included the huge emeralds formerly owned by Catherine the Great and a ruby tiara that had belonged to Empress Eugénie of France. At Sidi Hosni, Hutton sometimes greeted her invited guests while seated on a throne, and the local residents in Tangier referred to her as "The queen of the medina". In fact, the Tangier authorities readily agreed to widen or rebuild the narrow arches of the entrances to the medina to accommodate the width of her Rolls-Royces and other cars.

When not in Tangier, where she spent most of the summer months, Barbara Hutton divided her time between several homes: spring and part of the autumn in Paris at her luxurious suite (apartment 35) in the Hôtel Ritz, on the second floor overlooking the Place Vendôme; a four-bedroom suite at the Pierre in New York; and the winter at Sumiya, her 30-acre Japanese estate near Cuernavaca, Mexico, about 50 miles south of Mexico City. All materials used in the construction of Sumiya were shipped over from Japan. In early 1959 Hutton purchased an apartment in Paris on the third floor at 31, rue Octave Feuillet, near the Bois de Boulogne in the 16th arrondissement. Here she could display her large collection of Asian art and Oriental porcelain and hold lavish luncheons and dinner parties. Hutton maintained a permanent, full-time staff for each of her primary residences: a butler, chef, kitchen help and maids. Her personal maid, chauffeur, bodyguard and social secretary were typically a part of her traveling entourage.

While vacationing on the Lido in Venice, Italy in the late summer of 1957, Barbara Hutton met the young and handsome James Henderson Douglas III, an American living in Paris, whose father was the U. S. Secretary of the Air Force, and whose family business, combined with two others, became the Quaker Oats Company back in 1901. Cultured and charming, Jimmy Douglas genuinely cared for Barbara, and he successfully kept her off drugs and alcohol for almost three years. James Douglas and Barbara Hutton traveled together all over the world, and he lived with her for over a year at Sumiya in Mexico. Barbara Hutton invited Jimmy Douglas to live in her apartment in Paris, and she later bought him an apartment on the Left Bank. Nevertheless, in August 1960, she returned to Tangier without him.

James Douglas was followed by Lloyd Franklin, whom Hutton had first met in August 1960 at a dinner party given by David Herbert at his villa on the Mountain in Tangier. (His name at birth was Frank Franklin, and the first thing that Barbara Hutton did was to change his name to Lloyd Franklin.) Only 23 years old, the London-born Franklin had been a trumpeter in the Royal Coldstream Guards. Earlier that summer of 1960, he decided to leave the British military and travel to Spain and Morocco. He arrived in Tangier with only his backpack, an old guitar and a letter of introduction to the Hon. David Herbert. With Herbert's help, the young Franklin soon was given a job singing and playing his guitar at Dean's Bar, a popular spot in Tangier at the time, frequented by international celebrities, local residents and expatriates. Barbara Hutton went to Dean's to hear him perform, and soon Lloyd Franklin became, as some believed, the love of her life. He lived with Hutton at Sidi Hosni, though they never married, and he was plunged into a world of great riches and luxury. Hutton lavished Franklin with expensive gifts including a Rolls-Royce and a dozen polo ponies with stables and a bungalow on fifteen acres of land adjacent to the Tangier polo club. Barbara Hutton supported the polo club, which opened in 1962. When he amicably split his relationship with Barbara Hutton, Lloyd Franklin graciously returned the Tangier property she had given to him. When Lloyd Franklin married Penny Ansley, an English heiress, Barbara Hutton bought them a house on the mountain in Tangier as a wedding present. Several years later, on New Year's Day 1968, they were killed in an automobile accident while driving back to Tangier from Marrakech.

Barbara Hutton's Tangier friends included Yves Vidal, who owned York Castle, Charles Sévigny, her housekeeper Ira Belline, for whom Barbara later bought an orange farm near Marrakech, her Australian bodybuard Colin Frazer, her dressmaker Vera Medina, restaurant owner Mercedes Guitta, her personal maid Tony Gonzales, her Chinese-born social secretary Mona Yung-Ning Ho and her Tangier hairdresser Jean Mendibourne. When Hutton bought Sidi Hosni from Maxwell Blake in 1947, she inherited two caretakers, a married couple named Ruth and Reginald Hopwood, and they lived in Sidi Hosni when Hutton was not in residence. Ruth Hopwood's father Maxwell Blake had bought Sidi Hosni in 1931 from the Times of London correspondent Walter B. Harris. In the late 1950s, Hutton dismissed the Hopwoods from her employ and she refused to see them again. There were always hangers-on―predatory individuals who were mainly interested in getting something from Hutton, and some would encourage Hutton to drink too much, as then she was vulnerable and more likely to give something valuable away.

Barbara Hutton's only child Lance Haugwitz-Reventlow was raised by a nurse and nanny and he never had a close relationship with his mother, whom he seldom saw. Lance was six years old when his mother married the actor Cary Grant, who proved to be a good stepfather and the only real father-figure in his life. Lance detested his Danish father who had once kidnapped him during the bitter four-year custody battle with Barbara. During this time Count Court Haugwitz-Reventlow was living at Hopedene on Cliff Avenue in Newport, Rhode Island. Their marriage was already on the verge of collapse and they were separated. She never lived with him in Newport, nor did she ever live at Shamrock Cliff as has been claimed and rumored. In America, Lance received a formal education at St. George's School in Newport, Rhode Island, but because he had asthma, in 1950 she transferred her son to a school in Tucson, Arizona, where the climate was better. He did well academically but had no close friends among the students. Lance was hurt and disappointed when his mother failed to attend his graduation, and he never forgave her. She could not bear to face the crowds and publicity, and the following day she gave him a new Cadillac. In 1957, Lance Haugwitz-Reventlow renounced his Danish citizenship, thus giving up any future claim to use the title of count, and he became a citizen of the United States. For his twenty-first birthday, Barbara Hutton gave Lance money to build a house of his own design, located high up on Davies Drive, overlooking Bel Air and Beverly Hills.

Lance Reventlow disapproved of his mother's aristocratic friends, her well-publicized divorces and marriages and the excessive drinking. He became a racing-car enthusiast and in 1958 spent $2 million of his money to start a business that developed and produced the Scarab―America's fastest race car― to compete with European race cars. Lance was a friend of the actor James Dean, a fellow race car fan, and he was one of the last persons to see and speak with Dean on the day of his sudden death, September 30, 1955. After Lance Reventlow lost his enthusiasm for race cars, he enjoyed sailing in Hawaii, skiing in Colorado and piloting his own airplane. In 1960 Reventlow married the actress Jill St. John, but in 1963 they divorced. In 1964 he married the actress Cheryl Holdridge (formerly a "Mouseketeer" on Walt Disney's popular children's television show The Mickey Mouse Club), but his mother did not attend their wedding. Lance later bought a house in Aspen, Colorado and spent most of his time there, while Cheryl preferred living at their home in California. Tragically, on July 24, 1972, Lance Reventlow and three other passengers in his airplane died instantly when the Cessna crashed into a mountain north of Aspen, Colorado. His mother was devastated and did not feel able to attend her thirty-six-year-old son's memorial service in Aspen. Lance's cremated remains were later interred at the Woolworth mausoleum in New York, and thereafter Barbara Hutton was tormented by feelings of guilt and she sank into a state of deep depression.

Barbara Hutton married and divorced seven times, providing generous divorce settlements to six. Hutton's seven husbands were, with the years of each marriage and subsequent divorce in parentheses: (1.) Alexis Mdivani, a Georgian "prince" (1933–1935); (2.) Count Court von Haugwitz-Hardenberg-Reventlow (1935–1938), the Danish father of her only child, Lance Reventlow; (3.) the popular actor Cary Grant was the only husband not interested in getting any of Barbara Hutton's money (1942–1945); (4.) Prince Igor Troubetzkoy (1947–1951); (5.) Porfirio Rubirosa (1953–1954). Her shortest marriage to this notorious playboy, polo player and diplomat from the Dominican Republic lasted only 53 days. Rubirosa also had a short-lived marriage to another heiress, Doris Duke, and he had a well-publicized affair with Zsa-Zsa Gabor; (6.) Baron Gottfried von Cramm, a German tennis star (1955–1959). His full name was Gottfried Alexander Maximilian Walter Kurt Freiherr von Cramm; (7.) Barbara Hutton's last husband was Prince Pierre Raymond Doan Vinh Na Champassak (1964–1966). Barbara Hutton met Raymond Doan in Tangier during the summer of 1963 at an exhibition of his paintings. Doan's father was Vietnamese, his mother was French, and he had lived and was educated in France. When they met, Raymond Doan was a Buddhist, still married and had been working as a chemist for a French oil company in the Guéliz area of Marrakech. Only after Barbara Hutton bought Raymond Doan a Laotian title did he use the title of "prince". When she divorced him in 1966, Barbara Hutton gave Raymond Doan $2 million, and his brother Maurice Doan also received an apartment in Paris and other generous gifts.

The last few years of her life Hutton lived in a four-bedroom penthouse suite in the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, California. For years her health had been deteriorating, and she eventually wasted away to less than 90 pounds due to malnutrition and anorexia. At various times she was a chain smoker of cigarettes and had addictions to endless cups of black coffee, Coca-Cola, alcohol, sleeping pills, appetite suppressants and pain medications. Over time she was forced to liquidate assets and sell most of her homes and many possessions to raise cash. Hutton's dire financial predicament has been attributed to her own overspending and generosity, the mismanagement of her wealth by lawyers and financial advisers, and occasional outright theft by caretakers. In the summer of 1975 Barbara Hutton travelled to Morocco for the last time. Sidi Hosni in Tangier was the only residence which she still owned.

On May 11, 1979, Barbara Hutton died from a heart attack in Los Angeles, California, at the age of sixty-six. On May 25, 1979, Barbara Woolworth Hutton was buried at the Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, New York, in a crypt inside the Woolworth family mausoleum, a granite faux-Egyptian monument. The short private funeral service was attended by ten friends and family members, but no members of the press were present, nor was there a clergyman. Among those who attended Barbara Hutton's funeral were her first cousin, the actress Dina Merrill (Nedenia Marjorie Hutton, Marjorie Merriweather Post's youngest daughter), and her husband at the time, the actor Cliff Robertson. He read a poem by written himself and another written by Barbara Mdivani entitled "The Enchanted".

Although only a fragment of her original fortune remained at the time of her death, Barbara Hutton had made bequests to friends in her last will, and the remaining jewelry, furniture and other valuable items were privately sold or auctioned. When she died Hutton was a citizen of Denmark and a legal resident of Morocco. Years later, in November 1999, a single strand necklace of 41 natural and graduated pearls that Barbara Hutton had owned was auctioned and sold by Christie's Geneva for $1,476,400; and in 2006, a single white Imperial Qing Dynasty porcelain bowl which Hutton had owned was sold at auction by Christie's Hong Kong for the word record-breaking price of $22,240,000.

Two popular songs were inspired by Barbara Hutton's life, beginning with the actor and singer Bing Crosby's rendition of "I Found A Million Dollar Baby" (In a Five and Ten Cent Store), recorded in 1931. The music was composed by Harry Warren and the lyrics were by Billy Rose and Mort Dixon. The song was originally introduced in New York in May 1931 in Billy Rose's Broadway show "Crazy Quilt", starring Fannie Brice and James Barton. Additional versions of "I Found a Million Dollar Baby" were recorded by Nat King Cole, Perry Como and many others. The second song inspired by Barbara Hutton was Noël Coward's  "Poor Little Rich Girl", first performed in London, England on May 19, 1932 by the New Mayfair Orchestra, conducted by Ray Noble.

Barbara Hutton privately published two limited-edition books of her own poetry: the first, published by Barbara Mdivani, was entitled The Enchanted (Glasgow, Scotland: R. Maclehose & Co., October 1934), and a second limited edition book of 40 of her poems, many expressing her fondness for Morocco, and which was dedicated to her son Lance, was called The Wayfarer (Westerham, Kent, England: Westerham Press, 1957). Several biographies have been written about her life: Barbara Hutton: A Candid Biography of the Richest Woman in the World by Dean Jennings (London: W. H. Allen, 1968; New York: Frederick Fell, Inc., 1968); Poor Little Rich Girl: The Life and Legend of Barbara Hutton by C. David Heymann (New York: Random House, 1983; the original version was recalled for inaccuracies the day it was released in bookstores). A "cleaned-up and corrected" version of this book was published the following year: (Secaucus, New Jersey: Lyle Stewart, Inc., 1984); Million Dollar Baby: an Intimate Portrait of Barbara Hutton by Philip Van Rensselaer (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1979); and In Search of a Prince: My Life with Barbara Hutton by Mona Eldridge, a former social secretary―Mona Yung-Ning Hoo (London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1988).

Other books of related interest are: Five and Ten: The Fabulous Life of F. W. Woolworth by John K. Winkler (New York: Bantam Books, 1957; New York: Robert M. McBride & Co., 1940); Nickels and Dimes: The Story of F.W. Woolworth by Nina Brown Baker, (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1954); F.W. Woolworth and the American Five and Dime: A Social History by Jean Maddern Pitrone (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, 2003, 2007); Remembering Woolworth's: A Nostalgic History of the World's Most Famous Five-and-Dime by Karen Plunkett-Powell (New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2001); Winfield House, written by Maria Tuttle and Marcus Binney, with photographs by James Mortimer (London and New York: Thames & Hudson Inc. / W. W. Norton, 2008), is the first book about the history and design of the London residence of Barbara Hutton, now the official residence the American ambassador; Winfield: Living in the Shadow of the Woolworths by Monica Randall (New York: St. Martin's Press / Thomas Dunne Books, 2003). Randall once lived for several months at Winfield Hall and now represents historic properties on Long Island and the Hudson Valley as locations for television commercials, films and print media; The Woolworths by James Brough (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1982); and Dancing with the Devil: The Windsors and Jimmy Donahue by Christopher Wilson (New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000).

In 1987, a two-part miniseries about Barbara Woolworth Hutton's life was broadcast on the A&E Television Networks' The Biography Channel entitled: Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story, starring the actress Farrah Fawcett who portrayed Hutton. It was later broadcast in the United Kingdom and in Canada. Two of the Tangier locations used in the film were York Castle and Palais Mendoub, and Hutton's friends David Herbert and Yves Vidal had minor non-speaking roles. The film won the 1988 Golden Globe Award for Best Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television. In 2008, A&E Home Video released a remastered 300-minute DVD version of the film on two discs.

Copyright © 2007 by Kenneth Lisenbee