For those who have spent a reasonable amount of time in New York City, the mark of the Astors on the city is clear. Today, we still have Astor Place and the 6-train that stops there. The Astors’ fashionable home at 350 Fifth Avenue is the current site of the Empire State Building, and they also owned the Beechwood mansion or “summer cottage” in Newport, Rhode Island. Mrs. Astor also led “the Four Hundred,” a list of New York’s finest elite.
We can presume that this is the list that Bertha Russell is so eager to get her family onto in The Gilded Age, although Mrs. Astor was historically hesitant to welcome any “new wealth” to New York. Mamie Fish, who we’ve also met in The Gilded Age, was one of three socialites who eventually took over the Four Hundred when Mrs. Astor passed away in 1908.
As for Rosy, although he’s adjacent to Astor family history, The Gilded Age picks up when he’s already in the family. So there’s not much more drama involving him going forward, at least in the story’s history. In addition, Andy Talen, who plays Rosy, is only credited for the first episode of The Gilded Age on IMDb.
So unless we get a crossover series about the scandal inside the Roosevelt family (which we would definitely watch), it’s unlikely we’ll see much more of Andy in The Gilded Age.
Tune into new episodes of The Gilded Age every Monday at 9 p.m. EST on HBO.