The Two Mrs. Grenvilles: Coming January 10!

Done & Dunne

Hemlock Creatives

History, True Crime

4.7 • 630 Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2022

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Dominick’s 1985 novel The Two Mrs. Grenvilles marks the completion of his transition from Hollywood producer to writer and investigative journalist, and was an auspicious start to the second act of his career that made him a household name. Covering the events of the 1955 high society killing of William Woodward, Jr., by his wife, Ann, and the ways that the upper crust closed ranks to hide the scandal, it set the tone for all that would follow in Dominick’s final quarter century. Coming January 10, our New York State of Crime season turns its eye to the Woodward killing and the facts and fiction behind Dominick Dunne’s The Two Mrs. Grenvilles. Get your copy of the book at Amazon! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Greetings and salutations, investigators. It's Alicia here, your hostess on this podcast journey,
0:22.5	All Things Dominic Dunn. And I am missing all of you so, so much. I hope you had a wonderful
0:27.6	holiday and are enjoying a fresh new year. We are officially seven days away from our next deep dive
0:35.5	within our New York State of Crime series on Dun &
0:38.6	and Dun. Our next season launches one week from today. New episodes begin January 10th.
0:47.3	We have spent almost a year now on Dun & Dunn setting the paving stones, the infrastructure,
0:54.0	really, to deep dive into one of Dominic Dunn's novels,
0:58.2	and we simply had to begin with the two Mrs. Grenvilles.
1:03.0	The two Mrs. Grenvilles was released in the summer of 1985, just a year after Dunn's spectacular launch with Vanity Fair in 1984 and his column
1:14.5	justice and all of the reporting he's been doing since then. Dunn was so fascinated with this
1:20.9	case, y'all, which concerns the shooting death of Billy Woodward at the hands of his wife Anne.
1:28.6	It was not only Dunn's breakout novel with the two Mrs. Grinvilles, but he wrote about it extensively, Anne covered
1:34.4	the case as well in an episode of his television program, Power Privilege and Justice.
1:40.3	To give you a delicious little lead in here, I'm taking this from Vanity Fair from July of
1:45.8	1985. Peter Buckley is writing in the vanities column. This is entitled Murder Most Swank.
1:54.5	Dominic Dunn's new Romano Clay is a tale of High Society murder. In 1955, Edith Baker, the Society Matron, threw open her Long Island
2:04.0	Country Estate for a party in honor of the Duchess of Windsor. All 58 guests behaved in a
2:10.6	manner expected of this very rich, very wasp circle, except for Mr. and Mrs. William Woodward, Jr., who allegedly had a row and left
2:21.2	the party early. A few hours later, Anne Woodward blasted Bill with a shotgun. She claimed she mistook
2:29.2	him for a prowler. The Woodward's had been the darlings of the society pages, but people in society knew their
2:37.1	marriage had been full of lies and adultery. They regarded Anne as a gold digger who had trapped her man
2:44.1	and married into a family that could never accept her. And now she had murdered their golden boy. Yet the same set closed its ranks around her,
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