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Mary Wells

Mary Wells

Mary Wells, legendary entrepreneur, broke the glass ceiling back in the Seventies when she founded the ad and marketing agency, Wells Rich Greene. She was so far ahead of her time that the idea of a woman succeeding in a man’s world didn’t even have a name. But Mary gave a ...
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My Most Recent Posts

Mary Wells | 01/08/2010 4:00 am

The Holidays in Mustique: You Gotta Be a Kid, by Mary Wells

Our Gypsy has found a few square miles of heaven on earth, where the big thinking stays away for the holidays

Mary Wells | 12/16/2009 4:30 pm

Mary Wells: An Evening With Cate Blanchett … Onstage and Off

Our Mary takes a close-up look at Cate as Blanche duBois onstage and Cate – in a dinner conversation – offstage

Mary Wells | 11/25/2009 4:00 am

London Is Dancing (In Thigh Highs to Boot), by Mary Wells

London is no longer on its knees … in fact, it’s rocking! Our Gypsy picks the best of the best in Londontown

My Most Recent Conversation

Sarah Palin and the Celebrity of Politics

Joni Evans, Judith Martin, Liz Smith and Mary Wells talk about a new breed of celebrities, Palin’s political future and more in the wOw Conversation


Sweet Memories:

  • Homes: Especially "La Fiorentina" in France, Chesham Place in London and "The Terraces" in Mustique
  • Swimming out with my daughters when they were small and my husband to our Riva in Cap Ferrat and zooming off for lunch in St. Tropez
  • The saxophone player standing barefoot in wavelets during dinners at the beach restaurant close to our home in France
  • The first day of my agency, Wells Rich Greene, with Charlie Moss and 35 great talents along with I Love New York, Alka Seltzer, and years of wonderful accounts
  • Painting Braniff planes different colors
  • When my friend, John, and I were young and New York was the world
  • When "Strangelove" sailed out of Amels in Amsterdam for the Mediterranean — “That’s my boat,” I thought
  • Portofino in October— it’s like an opera stage set and we are the only boat in port
  • My first sight of British Columbia
  • My first sight of Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao
  • Pasteque and Sandia, my King Charles Spaniels

Most Important to Me:

  • My daughters, Katy and Pamela and their families
  • My most beloved friends

My Foods:

I Adore:

  • Kissing
  • Dancing
  • Eye locks with witty, sexy men
  • Basketball players
  • Theatre — too much to choose from
  • Blueberries
  • Caviar — gone baby gone.
  • Boat life
  • Netjets
  • Mustique, the Mediterranean, New York
  • Hotel La Mirande in Avignon and the Splendido Mare in Portofino
  • Capri convertibles and their funny drivers and the smiling life
  • Radical thinking, going to the edge
  • Hunger
  • A really new idea…breakthroughs
  • Thinking forward not backward and moving on
  • Sensitivity and generosity
  • A sense of spirit
  • Honesty
  • Epiphanies
  • Art in all its many forms now
  • BAM
  • Chorus line and Radio City Music Hall kicks
  • The new rainshowers
  • Clean sheets
  • Warren Buffett, Bill Gates and especially Melinda Gates making things better
  • Doing my fastwalk up Madison at sundown without a credit card
  • Dogs
  • Spur of the moment espresso in a shop, on the street
  • Kastro’s bar in Mykonos, Greece