38. Vanderbilt Family Values | Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt
Done & Dunne
Hemlock Creatives
4.7 • 629 Ratings
🗓️ 21 March 2022
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
In the first of a week of daily episodes, we resume with the Cornelius Vanderbilt II family, picking up in the year 1920. Reggie is going to find a new bride by 1923, Gloria Morgan. A child, also Gloria follows, and thus the wheels are in motion to get us to the 1934 custody battle for that child.
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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 | com.uk-Uk.woundary. That's audible.com.uked-wondery. |
| 0:11.6 | Welcome to Dun & Dunn. I'm Alicia, your hostess on this podcast journey, All Things Dominic Dunn. |
| 0:19.0 | Thanks for joining me this week, investigators, for the continuation of the |
| 0:22.6 | Aunt Gertrude and niece Gloria Vanderbilt saga. Yeah, of those Vanderbilts. Investigators, |
| 0:30.8 | this is a bigger story than just one episode. Welcome to a whole week of daily drops of done and done. |
| 0:38.5 | Today in our episode, we're going to get to know Gloria Vanderbilt's mother, Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt. |
| 0:45.2 | A legend in her own time, Gloria Morgan is. |
| 0:49.9 | She comes with a twin sister, Telma, and these two are going to light the world on fire in quite a few ways. |
| 0:58.5 | Before we begin our episode today, I do see a few fine folks in our spy glass this week who've joined our community over at patreon.com slash done and done, |
| 1:08.2 | getting early and ad-free episodes every week along with bonus episodes with big |
| 1:14.4 | enormous thanks to betty lou b ginger jay and cindy m i am so grateful to yall and all of our |
| 1:22.5 | patreon supporters and you for coming to listen today friends there was no bigger news in 1934 than the custody |
| 1:29.7 | battle of the poor little rich girl, Glory Vanderbilt. And we think of her Aunt Gertrude as the |
| 1:35.3 | machine behind it all. Or is she? This story is quite a ride. It has a lot of connections, |
| 1:41.7 | a lot of spider webs, a little bit of real estate, some |
| 1:45.1 | legendary names too with international consequences just from the custody trial of a 10-year-old |
| 1:51.6 | child. Kids gather around and let me tell you how we meet, Gloria's mother. We are going to be |
| 1:58.8 | dropping in where we left off last episode. I do recommend |
| 2:02.7 | you listen to episode 36 if you want the entire Vanderbilt family background that has happened |
| 2:09.7 | in the 70 years before we may get to this story. Today we're dropping in to the year 1920. |
| 2:17.5 | Let's investigate. |
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