117. Lost and Found | Frank Sinatra & The Original 1964 Black and White Ball

Done & Dunne

Hemlock Creatives

True Crime, History

4.7 • 629 Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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In this episode, our journey takes us into the Hollywood Hills in April of 1964, attending the original Black and White Ball, given by the Dunnes, in honor of their 10th wedding anniversary – long before the far-more-remembered November 1966 affair presented by Truman Capote, who was a guest at the first one. This celebrated party provides Dominick Dunne with a few clues along the way in anticipation of his coming third act, connected through a sandwich of Frank Sinatra layers. All sources can be found at doneanddunne.com. Continue your investigation with ad-free and bonus episodes on Patreon! To advertise on Done & Dunne, please reach out to sales@advertisecast.com or visit https://www.advertisecast.com/DoneDunne. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Dun & Dun. I'm Alicia, your hostess on this podcast journey, All Things Dominic Dunn where nothing is linear and everything is connected. Thank you for joining me today for this episode of Done and Done is we are exploring a little bit of incidents and accidents, maybe coincidences to this summer
0:24.9	within our series of Lost and Found, the downfall and the rise up, so to speak, of our man Nick,
0:34.2	working into his third act that we know him best for. But what happened along the way?
0:42.8	What are the things that happened earlier in his life that Nick uses for that third act of his?
0:50.2	Where does it all connect? We are going to journey to many places this summer in our investigation,
0:58.9	mainly looking at all of those incidents, accidents, and connections from Dunn's life from
1:06.1	1964 to 1984. Today we're going back to a party, a big party, a huge party, all the way back
1:16.3	in 1964 with the original black and white ball, hosted by Dominic Dunn and his wife Lenny
1:25.4	in April of that auspicious year on the occasion of the Dunn's
1:31.2	10th wedding anniversary, which, to be fair, this ball is the beginning to the end of their marriage,
1:39.3	but also a great story to dine out on in his later life. The Dunn's black and white ball was a big deal,
1:48.1	although it was very much enclosed in the Hollywood circle that Dominic wanted to be a part of. He did
1:55.6	make sure that he got some press from this big event. Nick and Lenny's black and white ball in 1964 was also the
2:05.2	inspiration for Truman Capote's black and white ball that comes about two and a half years later
2:12.4	in November 1966. And unbelievably enough, Frank Sinatra will intersect these two stories, along with some real
2:23.8	indications of how Dominic Dunn's first time in Hollywood is going to go. Before we begin today's
2:32.9	journey, I do have a spyglass here to give some tremendous thanks to a few
2:37.9	folks out there. Holy cats and how grateful am I to our latest Patreon supporters. Your generosity and
2:47.9	support is simply incredible, huge, huge thanks to Jelina S. Amy R.
2:54.4	Carrie A. Lori and Kathy B.
2:58.4	Y'all all rock.
3:01.0	Nicole 50, thank you for the awesome review on Apple Podcasts as well.
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