112. Capote's Coterie | The Essential Swans: Doris Lilly
Done & Dunne
Hemlock Creatives
4.7 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2023
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we investigate the life and times of Doris Lilly, columnist, writer, legendary society girl, and self-proclaimed inspiration for Holly Golightly in Truman Capote’s Breakfast at Tiffany’s.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Dun & Dunn. I'm Alicia, your hostess on this podcast journey All Things Dominic Dunn, where nothing is linear and everything is connected. |
| 0:11.7 | Thank you for joining me today as we continue our journey into Capote's Cotery, this time with an essential swan, the lovely lady who is most assuredly convinced herself |
| 0:24.7 | that she is the archetype for Holly Go Lightly. This essential swan is Doris Lily, celebrated author, |
| 0:34.8 | columnist, and legend all her own. I think y'all are really going to love this |
| 0:40.5 | story. Before we begin today's episode, I do have some thanks and praise in our spyglass here, |
| 0:48.3 | finding some names to shout out. Huge love and thanks for Mark S, who delightfully explained my missed connection. |
| 0:58.9 | We did make a correction to the Truman Capote, Phoebe Pierce Vreeland episode. |
| 1:04.7 | Phoebe Pierce Vreeland is not the granddaughter of Diana Vreeland. |
| 1:09.5 | Diana Vreeland does have a granddaughter named Phoebe, |
| 1:12.6 | but not the one in Truman Capote's life. But Mark S. totally rocks. Thank you, thank you, |
| 1:18.7 | thank you, Mark, for providing me the connection of how they are related. Here's how the |
| 1:24.8 | Phoebe Pierce-Freeland and Diana Vreeland connection breaks down. |
| 1:30.0 | Phoebe Pierce married in 1952 Diane Vreeland's nephew, Dirk Van Riper Vreeland, meaning Diane's |
| 1:39.9 | husband, Thomas Reed Vreeland, had a brother whose son Dirk married Phoebe in 1952. |
| 1:47.5 | That makes Phoebe Pierce-Freeland the wife of Diane's nephew. Clearing that up for everybody. |
| 1:55.5 | Got another name here in the spy glass. Lisa P. Thank you for your best email walking into spiderwebs. This is a great time to give a |
| 2:04.8 | shout out to Julia Louis Dreyfus, who believe it or not is my Delta Gamma sorority sister. She interviewed Jane |
| 2:12.2 | Fonda not too long ago and holy cats. You never know where Dominic Dunn is going to turn up. |
| 2:19.3 | Jane Fonda in this interview on Julia Louis Dreyfus's new podcast talked about what Catherine |
| 2:26.5 | Hepburn told Dominic Dunn about Jane Fonda, which is Jane Fonda has no soul. |
| 2:33.6 | Thanks, Catherine Hepburn, good Lord. Such a good story there. |
| 2:38.5 | And one more shout out, Nurse By Glass, Amy Beth Kay. Thank you for the awesome review on Apple Podcasts. |
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