S19E05: Everyday I Write The Book | Mary Astor, The Pilfered Purple Diary, and the Sex Scandal that Rocked 1936

Trashy Divorces

Hemlock Creatives

Comedy, History

4.6 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Movie stars have always had to weigh the facts of their authentic lives against the cost that revelations about those might inflict. This was the bind that screen legend Mary Astor was in back in 1936. Her unfaithful husband had been abusive, but his addiction to her money, and the reputational cost she would face for divorcing him, meant he was going nowhere. Until he found her diary, and realized he could have it all: her money, their daughter, and his freedom, by blackmailing her into a divorce on his terms. But when Mary realized that her daughter was in danger, she put it all on the line in a headline-grabbing custody trial that could have finished her career. Want early, ad-free episodes, bonus divorces, limited series, Zoom hangouts, and more? Join us at patreon.com/trashydivorces! Read More My Story: An Autobiography, by Mary Astor (Amazon link) Mary Astor's Purple Diary: The Great American Sex Scandal of 1936, by Edward Sorel (Amazon link) George S. Kaufman And His Friends, by Scott Meredith (Amazon link) George S. Kaufman: An Intimate Portrait, by Howard Teichmann (Amazon link) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:29.6	Hey everybody and welcome to Trashy Devourses.
0:33.6	Everybody's favorite good podcast about bad relationships.
0:37.6	My name is Stacey.
0:38.6	Thanks for joining us for today's tale of marital misadventure, I'm Alicia.
0:43.9	And we are headed back to Old Hollywood today with the most scandalous event of the summer
0:48.9	of 1936.
0:50.9	So what are you bringing us today, Alicia?
0:52.7	The Trashy tale of Mary Astor.
0:56.0	Her loves, her parents, her husbands, and her scandalous child custody case that rocked
1:02.6	the summer.
1:04.0	This whole affair is so famous or infamous, it even has its own encyclopedia entry.
1:11.8	I'm going to pull that here to preface this, significance from encyclopedia.com.
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