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Done & Dunne

162. Dunne on Marion Davies and A Forgotten Family Scandal

Done & Dunne

Hemlock Creatives

History, True Crime

4.7630 Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

This week, we explore Dominick Dunne’s writing on Marion Davies, their brief meeting in the 1950s, as well as reveal a few mysteries from Nick’s clues about a few scandals, secrets, and spiderwebs within the family. 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,

0:07.3

where everything really connects into our universe of Nick. This week I have a hot scoop.

0:15.0

Your girl has done a little investigating. This is a tremendous story. I'm so excited to share it with you. We have three unexpected sentences from our man Nick,

0:26.0

family trees, and a few forgotten scandals. Before we get started in this double drop of an episode this

0:34.6

week, I do want to give some huge thanks and shoutouts to our most recent

0:38.5

supporters over at patreon.com slash done and done. Big love and thanks to Aaron M. Page, Cindy S,

0:47.6

KDC, Jane G, Alexa W, Wendy W, Jessica R and J.PDX. Holy cats, y'all are the best. I am so grateful for each and

1:00.1

every supporter new and sustaining. What an incredible community. I can't thank you enough for your

1:06.2

support. I can't thank you enough for joining today. It's our man Nick in three mysterious sentences embedded in an article from long ago,

1:17.6

Family Trees and Scandals.

1:19.5

And it all does go back to Marion Davies.

1:22.7

Let's investigate.

1:24.1

Music investigate.

1:48.8

Holy cat, y'all. I've got a story for you today. As you probably have guessed by now,

1:56.1

I'm a little obsessed about Dominic Dunn. I have been reading Dominic Dunn's work since I was about 12, so going on four decades, every word.

2:06.3

You know what you like at an early age, it turns out, and with his volumes of work,

2:13.8

from what he produced in television and film, and what Nick wrote within nonfiction for Vanity Fair and his fiction too, and then power, privilege, and justice.

2:18.8

It's really easy to get lost in his catalog sometimes.

2:23.2

In the first episode from this past weekend, Marian Davies,

2:27.1

I wanted you to have that particular bit of information

2:31.1

because it is going to circle back around to Dominic Dunn. Our man, Nick,

2:36.5

does do a little writing about Marion Davies. This is from Vanity Fair in a column titled

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