The Beautiful
and Damned begins in 1913 with a 25-year old Anthony Patch in New
York City. Anthony had a very rough childhood and was raised by his
grandfather, millionaire Adam J. Patch. Anthony went to Harvard
where he established relationships with some of the other men.
Anthony decided to travel and was in Rome when he got a call that
his grandfather was very sick. Anthony returned to America, where
he visited his grandfather on an infrequent basis but spent a
majority of his time with his friends from school, drinking and
partying. Anthony claimed he was a writer, but rarely did any work.
One of Anthonys friends Richard Caramel had a beautiful cousin
named Gloria Gilbert who Richard introduced to Anthony. Anthony
decided he wanted to
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He leaves to go
to training and he and Gloria send each other letters back and
forth, saying how much they
loveand miss each
other, leading this separation to reignite their marriage. Soon
however, the letters slow down and stop all together. Anthony meets
a young woman named Dorothy, Dot, Raycroft and they begin to have
an affair with her. Meanwhile, Gloria was out with different men
and even kissed one of them. The war was over before Anthony was
deployed, and he left without telling Dot, he went back to Gloria
and when they were together again, their relationship was stronger
than it had ever been. This however, was short-lived and soon they
went back to their old ways of arguing, Anthony getting drunk all
time, and Gloria being depressed because she is thirty, her beauty
is fleeting, and she's not a movie star. Gloria leaves to go to the
hearing and while Anthony is as the apartment, Dot shows up to get
Anthony to say he loves her or she wont be able to keep living.
Anthony gets so upset he hits Dot with a chair, the event severely
startles him and he has a mental breakdown and reverts to a more
childlike state. Gloria returns from court and they won and are
now
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