Eleanor Post Hutton

[10] On April 5, 1933, she married for the second time to Etienne Marie Robert Gautier (1907–1993)[11] in the Chapel of Église Saint-Philippe-du-Roule in Paris.

[5] He was the son of Imre Békessy, a publisher, and was the author of A Thousand Shall Fall, a novel about his life during World War II including his capture by the Germans in 1940, imprisonment at Dieuze dulag camp and subsequent escape.

He was on the staff of the American Embassy in Paris, and was the son of Owen Johnson, a prominent writer from Stockbridge, Massachusetts.

In September 1954, she married her sixth and final husband, Léon Eugene Barzin (1900–1999), a prominent Belgian-born American conductor and founder of the National Orchestral Association,[22][23] and the founding musical director of the New York City Ballet in combination with Lincoln Kirstein and George Balanchine.

[25][26] Eleanor Close Barzin died in Paris on November 27, 2006, and was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, New York, after a service at Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens.

[27] She was survived by her son and businessman Antal Miklas Post de Bekessy, her granddaughter Laetitia Allen Vere as well as her half-sister actress Dina Merrill and two half-brothers Edward B.