Babe Plunket Greene, birth registered as Enid Margot Bendir, was one of the 1920s English socialites known as the "Bright Young Things". She also used the surname of her mother's first husband, McGusty, and the first name "Marguerite".
Babe Plunket Greene (at the far right), at David Tennant's party in 1928, with William Acton, Margot Bendir (her mother), Elizabeth Ponsonby, and Harry Melville
Portrait of Mrs Bendir (1926) by Sir William Orpen, a depiction of Babe's mother
The Bright Young Things, or Bright Young People, was a term given by the tabloid press to a group of Bohemian young aristocrats and socialites in 1920s London. They threw flamboyant fancy dress parties, went on elaborate treasure hunts through nighttime London, and some drank heavily or used illicit drugs — all of which was enthusiastically covered by journalists such as Charles Graves and Tom Driberg.
Richard Plunket Greene, Olivia Plunket Greene, David Plunket Greene, Terence Greenidge, Elizabeth Frances Russell, and Evelyn Waugh.
Image: Harold Acton
Image: William Acton, Margot Bendir, Elizabeth Ponsonby, Harry Melville, Babe Plunket Greene at David Tennant's party 1928
Image: Kathleen Adam Smith Paget Thomson