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* Phyllis in ''[[Troop Beverly Hills]]'' starts out like this.
* Veronica Lodge of ''[[Archie Comics]]''.
* Nagi Sanzenin of [[
* Bertie Wooster in the [[Jeeves and Wooster (
* Most of the characters in ''[[
* Wilbur Van Snobbe from ''[[Little Lulu]]''.
* Half the people above stairs in ''[[Gosford Park]]''.
* In ''[[Batman]]'', this is Bruce Wayne's cover.
* In ''[[The Thin Man (
* Mr. and Mrs. Hart from ''[[Hart to Hart]]'', a modern day Nick and Nora Charles, were this. True, they usually got involved in some crime mystery, but that was just what they did for fun.
* ''[[
* The Hippo couple in ''[[
* Charlie Chaplin's wealthy man, who winds up being [[Identical Stranger|Identical Strangers]] with the Little Tramp in ''[[The Idle Class]]''
* [[
* Miss Milo Roberts in ''[[An American in Paris]]''.
* Jack Donaghy in ''[[30 Rock
* In [[Gene Stratton Porter]]'s ''Michael O'Halloran'', Douglas recounts how a friend of his is training an orphan waif to follow him in his business, because while he has sons, his rich wife is training them to be "men of wealth and leisure".
* The titular character of ''[[Nathan Barley]]''. [http://www.tvgohome.com/ The original online version] summed up the plot of one episode with "Nathan Barley decides what job to pretend to do next".
* In [[Dorothy L. Sayers]]'s [[Lord Peter Wimsey]] novel ''Have His Carcass'', one professional dancer speaks with contempt of women who resort to the high life rather than making a life for themselves.
{{quote| ''"L'amour! These ladies come and dance and excite themselves and want love and think it is happiness. And they tell me about their sorrows -- me -- and they have no sorrows at all, only that they are silly and selfish and lazy. Their husbands are unfaithful and their lovers run away and what do they say? Do they say, I have two hands, two feet, all my faculties, I will make a life for myself? No. They say, give me cocaine, give me the cocktail, give me the thrill, give me my gigolo, give me l'amo-o-ur! Like a mouton bleating in a field."''}}
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