290. Oatsie Charles, Newport's Grande Dame

Done & Dunne

Hemlock Creatives

True Crime, History

4.7 • 630 Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2026

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we explore the life of high society grande dame Oatsie Charles. Her southern childhood and early life are connected through Santa Rosa and Montgomery, with a whole lot of eccentric family tales. We do have a Tallulah Bankhead connection as well, before we move onto Oatsie’s later years, where she partied it up in Georgetown and her Newport home, Land’s End. Connected to all the players in every era, including JFK, Ian Fleming, Katharine Graham, and Nancy Reagan too – Oatsie is a lady who is hard to forget. Continue your investigation with ad-free and bonus episodes on Patreon! To advertise on Done & Dunne, please reach out to info@amplitudemediapartners.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What I've dedicated my life to is revenge.
0:04.7	A brand new drama based on the bestselling novel.
0:07.5	They think they're better than us.
0:08.5	Who do you think you are?
0:09.8	I'm going to prove to them that they're wrong.
0:11.5	She's punishing me.
0:13.0	You destroyed my family.
0:14.3	I will not rest until I've destroyed yours.
0:17.0	A woman of substance on Channel 4 starts tonight at 9.
0:20.1	Welcome to Dun & Dunn.
0:21.9	I'm Alicia, your hostess on this podcast journey, All Things Dominic Dunn.
0:27.0	Thank you for joining me today as we explore the life and legacy of Oatsy Charles.
0:34.0	She is a legendary high society Grand Dame.
0:38.1	We have name-checked Oatsy plenty around our cinematic universe of our man Nick, and he is always
0:44.8	name-checking Oatsy in one story or another.
0:48.7	Oatsy was a pretty incredible lady with a perhaps problematic childhood in the South south loaded with tails and spider webs and perhaps
0:57.3	the comstock load her adult life was no different in its full of adventure today i'm dipping
1:04.3	into the patreon vault to moosh two episodes together for you for our investigation today.
1:11.4	These are from the fall of last year,
1:13.6	and the connections included the spider webs herein are going to knock your socks off.
1:19.8	Why am I robbing the vault today?
1:22.5	Here's a little bit of inside podcasting biz.
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