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How The Gilded Age Pulled Off the Wedding of the 19th Century
Hundreds of tailors, thousands of flowers, and one very unhappy bride.
In Sunday night’s “Marriage Is a Gamble,” Bertha finally succeeds in marrying Gladys off to the Duke of Buckingham, securing her a title and place in English peerage and making even the most established families in America nouveau by comparison. Many characters that make up The Gilded Age ’s sprawling ensemble are fictionalized versions of real historical figures, like Mrs. Astor (Donna Murphy), Ward McAllister (Nathan Lane), and Mamie Fish (Ashlie Atkinson). Among the hundreds of guests at the Russell wedding are main characters like Agnes Van Rhijn (Christine Baranski) and Ada Forte (Cynthia Nixon), as well as talent returning for the first time this season, like Kelley Curran, who plays Mrs. Turner, and Nathan Lane’s Ward McAllister.
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