09 Trashy Breakups: L'Ame Des Poetes | Gene Tierney and John F. Kennedy
Trashy Divorces
Hemlock Creatives
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🗓️ 1 December 2021
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Before sweeping Jacqueline Bouvier off her feet, a young and confident Navy man met Hollywood stunner Gene Tierney on a visit to the set of the film she was shooting in 1946. They were both enthralled, but Gene was just finishing her divorce from fashion designer Oleg Cassini, and John F. Kennedy, began the romance with two strikes against it: his Roman Catholic family, which would never approve of him marrying a divorcee, and his laser focus on being elected president one day.
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| 0:00.0 | Your first great love story is free when you sign up for a free 30-day trial at audible.co. |
| 0:05.5 | That's audible.co.uk slash Wondery. |
| 0:10.7 | Hey, everybody. Welcome to Trashy Breakups, your Wednesday unmarried edition of Trashy D divorces. |
| 0:28.9 | Hey, friends, I'm Alicia. |
| 0:30.2 | My name's Stacey. |
| 0:31.2 | I have a story for you this week. |
| 0:32.6 | A little bit of a follow-up. |
| 0:33.9 | We talked about Joe Kennedy and Gloria Swanson in Sunday's episode. There is just no end |
| 0:40.8 | to Kennedy trash. No, there's not. Okay. There's not. But I do have a singularly not trashy, |
| 0:48.4 | more sad, kind of trashy breakup today. Okay. I've been researching Gene Tierney for a very long time. She's got a fascinating |
| 0:56.0 | story with a lot of spider webs. But today we're just going to go down one of those spider web threads |
| 1:03.0 | to talk about the trashy breakup of actress legend goddess Gene Tierney and John F. Kennedy. |
| 1:11.4 | Hmm. |
| 1:12.2 | This affair, this ill-fated, doomed affair was written about heavily in Jean Tierney's biography, |
| 1:22.5 | called Self-Portrait, was written up just recently in the Irish Central Times by Dermott McAvoy. |
| 1:29.1 | I love Irish Central. |
| 1:31.3 | Let's get into it. |
| 1:33.1 | JFK, we think of them, married to Jacqueline. |
| 1:36.5 | Like, his image is very cemented, but, you know, like father. |
| 1:41.8 | The stuff we didn't see. |
| 1:43.9 | Yeah, like father like son. |
| 1:45.6 | So Gene Tierney is an actress. |
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