BONUS: A Love Letter to Truman Capote's First Swan, Carol Saroyan Matthau

Done & Dunne

Hemlock Creatives

History, True Crime

4.7 • 630 Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2022

⏱️ 15 minutes

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This podcast tends to take a somewhat dim view of Truman Capote, a longtime acquaintance and maybe sometimes frenemy of Dominick Dunne. But Truman had his bright spots, too. Today we're treating you to an episode of another of Alicia's podcasts, Love Letters to..., with a Love Letter to Truman's First Swan, Carol Saroyan Matthau. We'll see you Monday with more of The Two Mrs. Grenvilles. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Dun & Dunn. I'm Alicia, your hostess on this journey, All Things Dominic Dunn,
0:07.0	which is kind of adjacent today. Y'all, I've got a surprise bonus episode. This is coming
0:12.5	directly to you from my little side history podcast project called Love Letters 2. Within our arc of
0:20.0	the two misses Grenvilles, we're going to talk a lot about
0:22.7	Truman Capote. This story that released today on Love Letters 2 was so lovingly adjacent. And before we
0:30.1	get into all the trashy about Truman, I thought you might like to hear something nice about him first.
0:36.5	Included as a bonus episode from the Love
0:38.8	Letters 2 podcast about Carol Soroyan Mathau, Truman Capote's very first and original Swan. I hope you
0:47.9	enjoy it. I cannot wait to see you back next Monday for our continuation of the two Mrs. Grenvilles.
0:55.6	Until then, y'all, stay curious, keep on investigating. Hello, sweethearts. Thanks for joining me today on Love Letters 2,
1:02.1	the daily podcast dedicated to wonderful and unexpected things. In today's episode, continuing
1:08.5	through our month of first times and famous firsts, it is a love
1:12.5	letter to Truman Capote's first swan, Carol Soroyan Mathau. These two lifelong friends meet
1:20.0	as teenagers when Carol first inspired Truman with her radiance. Over the years, they forged a deep
1:27.1	and lasting bond. Capote would surround himself
1:30.5	with many other beautiful ladies in his life, but not more extraordinary than his original swan.
1:37.9	The one whose skin he said was made of moonbeams. Oh, I do love this love letter. I'm Elise Shemence and I invite you to join me
1:46.4	today for this love letter to Carol Soroyan Mathau coming to you were born into difficult circumstances on September 11, 1924,
2:20.6	to a teenage mother who was disowned by her family for having a child out of wedlock.
2:26.1	After some challenging and sad early years of life, your world completely changed when your mother
2:31.9	married the wealthy Charles Marcus. You and your mother moved
2:35.7	into his 18-room duplex at 1107 Fifth Avenue, the same building that Marjorie Maryweather
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