Done & Dunne

Investigators, we have made it to the end of this first Vanderbilt Family Values arc. In this series finale, we cover a few loose threads from the previous episodes, as well as explore the hidden novelist inside of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, writing two novels with so much implied between the covers.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, we pick up our investigation continuing the story of Gloria Vanderbilt, from her teenage years to her death in 2019 at the age of 95.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Done and Dunne 39. Vanderbilt Family Values | International Incidents 1926-1934 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, it is a bonus episode from Done and Dunne Patreon! We explore Hever Castle, standing in the Kent countryside since the 12th century, and talk about its connections with two Tudor Queens - Anne Boleyn and Anne of Cleves, and as Astor too - William Waldorf Astor.Advertise with us! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today, we begin our investigation into the storied Gilded Age American family, the Vanderbilts. We'll start with the second generation, where no one was shy about their wealth, with the lives of Cornelius Vanderbilt II and his wife Alice Claypoole Gwynne Vanderbilt, and their seven children. It is a wild ride of 70 years of one family's history that encompasses weddings, divorces, deaths, and a name that is inextricably tied to a time in the life of America. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, we are going back to the East Coast, New York City in fact – to the toniest hot spot of all the swells in the Upper East Side – – a little place called Mortimer’s. What a scene – it was the scene for all the high society set for about a decade – from 1976 to 1998.Exploring the life and times of Mortimer’s proprietor – Glenn Bernbaum, and the swells that circulated throughout the Upper East Side hot spot for its 22 year run. Sources:Fatal Charms and The Mansions of Limbo, by Dominick Dunne (amazon.com)The Mortimer’s Bunch | Vanity Fair (vanityfair.com)Glenn Bernbaum, a Solomon of Bistro Seating, Dies at 76 – The New York Times (nytimes.com)Lights, Camera, Action! | New York Social Diary (newyorksocialdiary.com)Weekend Explorer: Upper East Side – The New York Times (nytimes.com)No More Mr. Nice Guy – Nymag (nymag.com)Advertise with us! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this week's episode, we investigate the mysterious 1932 death of filmmaker Paul Bern, and explore the history of his Benedict Canyon home. The Harlow-Bern House would become significant to Dominick years later, when his friend Jay Sebring, who owned it at the time when he suffered his terrible fate at the hands of the Manson Family. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Actress Lana Turner was one of the many famous faces who embraced Dominick when he first made Hollywood his home in the mid-1950s. His timing was impeccable; a few short years after the Dunnes moved to Los Angeles, Lana Turner was caught up in the scandalous killing of her gangster boyfriend, Johnny Stompanato.Sources:The Way We Lived Then: Recollections of a Well-Known Name Dropper, by Dominick Dunne (amazon.com)Ava Gardner: The Secret Conversations, by Peter Evans and Ava Gardner (amazon.com)Lana: The Lady, The Legend, The Truth, by Lana Turner (amazon.com)LANA: The Memories, the Myths, the Movies, by Cheryl Crane and Cindy De La Hoz (amazon.com)Detour: A Hollywood Story, by Cheryl Crane and Cliff Jahr (amazon.com)Blonde Ambition, by Dominick Dunne (vanityfair.com)Intimate Partner Violence ResourcesIf you are suffering with intimate partner abuse, here are resources for different countries. Please ask for help: US Crisis Text Line: 741741 US National Domestic Violence Hotline: 800-799-7233 UK Domestic Abuse Hotline: 0808 2000 247 Australia Rape & Domestic Violence Hotline: https://www.1800respect.org.au or 1800 RESPECT Canada: http://thelifelinecanada.ca./help/call/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices