Gertrude Sanford Legendre
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Daughter of the late rug fortune John Sanford, Gertrude Sanford Legendre was a former debutante who left high society to become a world-touring big-game hunter. Her brother Stephen “Laddie” Sanford was an international polo star and director of the Bigelow-Sanford Carpet Company. He married Broadway turned Hollywood film star Mary Duncun in 1933, after which she retired from films and moved with him to Palm Beach, Florida.[[1]]
During WWII, Legendre worked for the Office of Strategic Services, (OSS) essentially as a spy. She was the first American woman who was captured on the western front in France by the Germans. Legendre was held captive for six months and then escaped into Switzerland. Quoted to have said “I look ahead. I always have. I don't contemplate life. I live it.”[[2]]. Katharine Hepburn’s character of Linda Seton in the 1938 version of Holiday was loosely based on her. She lived to be 97.
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