Gloria Braggiotti Etting

Gloria Braggiotti Etting (1909 – 3 September 2003) was an American dancer, newspaper columnist, photographer, and writer.

Her brother Mario Braggiotti was an accomplished composer and pianist who was even recognized by George Gershwin as a peer.

During his performances in Manhattan, Mario would take Gloria to El Morocco and other exclusive nightclubs, but life was still a struggle for them both, as it was for many during the Great Depression.

"[4] She made her acquaintance at El Morocco with Maury Paul, perhaps the most famous café society columnist in New York who wrote under the pen name "Cholly Knickerbocker."

Beebe had an active evening social life as part of his duties to gather material for his column, and he often attended theater openings, operas and other functions with Gloria on his arm, after which they would drop in at El Morocco and, as Beebe would later write, see "the names that made news.

"[5] Regulars at El Morocco sitting at Beebe's and Paul's table included Fred Astaire, Libby Holman, Gloria Swanson, and Clark Gable, with fashion designer Valentina Schlee and her husband, and Town & Country editor Harry Bull and his wife sitting nearby.

Gloria had met Emlen Etting while they were teenagers and he was attending St. George's School in Middletown, Rhode Island, near Newport.

[6] She published her autobiography Born In A Crowd in 1957 which described her youth growing up in the large Braggiotti household in Florence.