S23E8: Joan McCracken and Jack Dunphy
Trashy Divorces
Hemlock Creatives
4.5 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 25 August 2024
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Dancer and actress Joan McCracken became one of America's biggest stars in the 1940s after her scene-stealing role in Oklahoma! as Sylvie, "The Girl Who Fell Down." In her real life, she was challenged by a secret diagnosis of diabetes in an era where management of the disease was complicated at best, and her marriage to fellow dancer Jack Dunphy - who would go on to be Truman Capote's partner for decades - was wrecked her affair with a French songwriter. Joan would become Bob Fosse's second wife and a major influence in his career. Given how brief her life was - she died at just 43 - her story is an impressive array of spiderwebs into both the Trashy Divorces Cinematic Universe, and Alicia's Done & Dunne podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to another exciting edition of trashy divorces. |
| 0:05.1 | Everybody's favorite good podcast about bad relationships. |
| 0:09.0 | My name is Stacy. |
| 0:10.2 | Hi, friends. I'm Alicia and I am like all that jazzing. |
| 0:14.6 | Yeah, you're sizzling over there. |
| 0:16.7 | Man, I love this story. |
| 0:18.6 | I have waited. |
| 0:19.5 | This one has been a long time coming. |
| 0:22.6 | I have wanted, waited for the right moment to bring to you the trashy divorce of Joan McCracken and Jack Dunphy. |
| 0:32.6 | Why are you laughing? |
| 0:33.9 | Just top tier SEO there. |
| 0:37.0 | Once you know their story, it is top tier SEO. once you know their story it is top tier SEO this is the doomed |
| 0:40.9 | romance that launches a thousand trashy spider webs within our trashy divorces world cinematic universe |
| 0:50.3 | cinematic universe this story has everything you could want from A to Z. Y'all are going to |
| 0:57.2 | love it. Stick with me. I've got a separate choose your own adventure happening on done and done this |
| 1:02.3 | week. The two really do slipstream. Before we begin our story today of Joan McCracken and Jack Dunphy, |
| 1:09.7 | who I promise you're going to want to know all about by the |
| 1:12.6 | end of this episode. We do have two new supporters over at patreon.com slash trashy divorces to shout out. |
| 1:21.4 | Thanks so much for joining us Mallory S and Casey. Holy cats, y'all, Rock, thank you for supporting our endeavors over there where you're getting ad-free |
| 1:31.7 | early episodes. |
| 1:33.2 | Dumpster dives every Wednesday. |
| 1:34.7 | We just dropped to Spiderwebs this past week about Ms. Maxine Powell's finishing school. |
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