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Brownie McLean: 100 years of fabulous for Palm Beach icon
Even at 100, the queen bee of Palm Beach continues buzzing.
“I’m still out every night,” said Brownie McLean on the phone a week before she reached the centenary mark.
Brownie mclean biography of williams
“”You have to keep moving. You don’t dare slow down.”
Not that McLean has ever spent time in the slow lane.
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Her life reads like an improbable 1950s Hollywood plot: charming orphaned country girl finds money and romance while rising to the pinnacle of high society, suffers ups and downs while maintaining an imperturbable sense of fun and happiness.
“When life gets to you, you have to do the best you know how,” said McLean.
“Just keep going, keep dancing.”
“She’s a drop of Peter Pan, a drop of Marilyn Monroe and a whole lot of Auntie Mame,” said her goddaughter, Jane Schmidlapp, three years ago when Mclean was still keeping her age a nuclear s