Episode Detail: The Vanderbilts - Classroom
Profiling the Vanderbilts, including "Commodore" Cornelius Vanderbilt, who built the family fortune; Alva Vanderbilt, a leading socialite of “the gilded age”; and Gloria Vanderbilt, the subject of a custody battle in 1934 between her aunt, Gertrude Whitney; and her mother, Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt.