page_title: Eleanor Post Hutton
section_title: Early life
hierarchical_section_title: Eleanor Post Hutton / Early life
caption_attribution_description: English: Pastel double portrait of Eleanor Post Close (left) and Adelaide Brevoort Close, daughters of Edward B. Close and Marjorie Merriweather Post. The girls are wearing pink dresses and pink bows in their hair. Eleanor holds a boquet of flowers while Adelaide holds a white rabbit in her lap. A small white dog sits nearby.
context_page_description: Eleanor Post Hutton was an American heiress and socialite. Born a "Close", her name changed to "Hutton" with her mother's 1920 remarriage to Edward Francis Hutton.
context_section_description: Eleanor Post Close was born on December 3, 1909 in Greenwich, Connecticut, the second daughter of heiress, socialite and company founder Marjorie Merriweather Post (1887–1973) and investment banker Edward Bennett Close. 
  She was the granddaughter of C. W. Post (1854–1914) whose Postum Cereal Company was the predecessor of the General Foods Corporation. She was a half-sister to Dina Merrill (née Nedenia Hutton), her mother's third and last child.  Through her father's second marriage, she was a half-sister to William B. Close (1924–2009), father of actress Glenn Close (born 1947).
caption: 1915 portrait of Eleanor (at left) and her sister Adelaide
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