Sattāreh Farmānfarmā'iān (Persian: ستاره فرمانفرمائیان; December 23, 1921 – May 21, 2012), also Sattareh Farman-Farmaian, was an Iranian author, social worker, and was of Qajar nobility.
[1] She was one of the daughters of Persian nobleman and Qajar Prince, Abdol Hossein Mirza Farmanfarma, through mother Massoumeh.
She was a pioneer within the field of social work in Iran, and she was the first Iranian student to attend the University of Southern California (USC).
The following day Samuel M. Jordan who had been involved with the American School in Tehran, met her in Los Angeles and convinced the admissions director of the University of Southern California to admit Farman-Farmaian.
In 1948, she married a classmate from USC, a film student from India named Arun Chaudhuri, and in 1949 gave birth to a daughter, Mitra.
Sattareh and Arun can be heard as contestants on the 14th June 1950 edition of You Bet Your Life being interviewed by Groucho Marx and winning through to the jackpot question about the American Revolutionary War, to which they don't get the correct answer.
She had been able to keep her daughter Mitra with her for the first year in Bagdad, but, realizing that her work would take her to the desert, decided to send her to Dartington Hall in Devonshire, England, for her education.
In 1966 the school built the first of many Community Welfare Centers, partially funded by Empress Farah, at which classes in literacy, child care, nutrition, and women's health and hygiene were offered.