Season premiere of Feud: Capote vs. the Swans

[silverstarry]

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FEUD: Capote Vs. The Swans tells the story of acclaimed writer Truman Capote, once a confidante to society’s most elite women, whom he nicknamed “the swans.” However, his act of betrayal (publishing their secrets in his short story La Côte Basque, which you can read here) effectively destroyed those relationships, banished him from high society,

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[moddchicc]

I haven't watched it yet, but I'm stoked Slim Keith is finally getting some attention. Homegirl was the Pattie Boyd of old Hollywood and had a super interesting love life and personal life.

[msfortune76]

Im loving it so far but Ryan always disappoint in the end

[justabwaybaby]

I don't think he wrote or directed any of it, so 🤞

[msfortune76]

Oh that's great to hear

[silverstarry]

LOL, ONTD doesn't read strikes again:

The first four episodes were directed by Gus Van Sant. Additional episodes were directed by Max Winkler and Jennifer Lynch. All eight episodes were written by Guggenheim fellow and Pulitzer finalist Jon Robin Baitz.

[aristobrit]

The Two Mrs Grenvilles by Dominick Dunne is his novel about the Woodward murder. Ann Margaret starred in the movie as Ann Woodward.

Tinsley Mortimer is vaguely related to Babe Paley by marriage. Her former husband's father was the brother of Babe's first husband. When you go digging into these society people, you always find connections. This series reminds me a bit of The Guilded Age, if it was set in 1960. I can't remember which now, but one of the swan's mothers was married to Vincent Astor.

[silverstarry]

When you go digging into these society people, you always find connections. Ha, totally. It's because these groups were so insular bordering on incestuous that everyone was somehow connected to everyone else. If they weren't blood related, they were related by marriage or someone in their family had an affair with someone in the other family

[sirena73]

Girl, I wish we could sit and talk because this kind of old school gossip is my favorite thing and I don't know anyone who cares lol

I totally forgot about the the whole Gloria Guinness "the family tree does not fork" madness!

[silverstarry]

I totally forgot to mention Marie Norton Whitney Harriman (the woman who bled all over Bill Paley's sheets)! Her first husband, Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney was the first cousin of Jock Whitney who was married to Babe's older sister Betsey Cushing (Jock was Betsey's second husband).

Marie's second husband, Averell Harriman, was the third husband of Pamela Digby Churchill Hayward Harriman, another one of Capote's swans. Between her first and second marriages, Pamela also had affairs with Jock Whitney and the aforementioned Aly Khan and Stavros Niarchos (from my earlier post). She also had an affair with Bill Paley (Babe's husband) while he was still married to his first wife.

[silverstarry]

The version of the Bill/Happy tryst that Truman told in La Côte Basque was slightly different. In that version, "Dill" aka Bill stayed up all night trying to get the blood out of the sheets before "Cleo" aka Babe arrived home from a trip. She got to their apartment early the next morning, found him asleep, and left so she wouldn't wake him. According to one of the books I read, Bill was the one who told Truman the whole story. whatisthetruth.gif

In the end, it doesn't really matter who told Truman because Babe felt humiliated. To be fair, Bill did not seem to be very discreet about his numerous affairs so it's not like people thought Bill was a devoted and faithful husband (I'm not excusing Truman though, just pointing out that Bill being a cheater wasn't news to their crowd).

Next week is the Black and White Ball and I can't wait for all the fabulous masks and dresses!

[willardwright]

Very informative post, thank you, OP! Honestly, I know these women were rich af, but their lives seem a little exhausting with all the men, relationships, cheating and what not. Adding Answered Prayers to my to-read list.

also, as an annoying local socialist I'd just like to say that Poland got rid of aristocratic titles in early 1920s, so Stanisław Albrecht Radziwił, despite calling himself a prince, was technically not one for most of his life. Not that it matters all that much, he was still a rich and influential fucker, and people kept using this title for him, but they could at least be consistent about their own made up rules, tbh.

[theylezharold]

Answered Prayers doesn't exist.... he never wrote it. The Leamer book goes into it though.

[willardwright]

Wiki&Goodreads say it was published, just incomplete, since it was never finished.