Done & Dunne

In this week's Double-Dunne episode, we explore the life and times of Judith Campbell Exner. Associated in more than you may expect - not just the girlfriend of Frank Sinatra, John F. Kennedy, and Sami Giancana, Judith stands alongside Marilyn Monroe - both women were used by powerful men of the generation for their own aims and motivations. Song: The Lucky One, Taylor Swift https://www.youtube.co...

In this episode, we gather the cast of our existing players including Marilyn Monroe, Frank Sinatra, and Peter Lawford into the years of 1959 and 1960, as well as introduce a few new players too. Jeanne Carmen, Judith Campbell, Sam Giancana, and Johnny Roselli enter our story here for the first of a double-dip this week on Done and Dunne. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoi...

In this episode, we explore the long and complicated relationship between Peter Lawford and Frank Sinatra through 1960, and reveal the hidden origins of the 1960 Rat Pack. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

In this week's episode, we drop into the year 1958 to catch up with Dominick and his family moving into their new Beverly Hills home. 1958 is a big year all around, as we connect a few through lines with Truman Capote and his 1958 novella, Breakfast at Tiffany's into our Dunne and Marilyn Monroe arcs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art1...

In this episode, we travel back to the life and times of Harold Lloyd, famous silent film star with decades of Hollywood history, in addition to being the Dunne's first landlord when they arrived in California in 1957.  Also included: a dip into Benedict Canyon and a few of its famous players. Harold had some very swell neighbors like Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks Sr., Charlie Chaplin, Buste...

In this week's episode, we continue through our arc of 'A Nick In Time,' advancing Dominick Dunne into his first act in Hollywood in 1957. Dunne's entry into the scene is provided by Frank Sinatra and Humphrey Bogart, who were connected initially by the legendary literary agent Irving "Swifty" Lazar.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art1...

In this week's episode, we center Dominick Dunne back into the picture - from a fortune given to him in the 1940s to the very precipice of his 1957 entry into Hollywood.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

In this episode, we continue our investigation into the life and death of Marilyn Monroe, specifically covering the years from 1955 to 1959. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Investigators, in our episode this week, we finally get our couple down the aisle! Today's tale includes all the happenings surrounding the September 1953 affair.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

In this episode, we are going to travel from 1950 - from where we left Jack calling Jackie, nine months too late, to 1953 - when Jackie will get that marriage proposal from Jack.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

It's a little bit of a linear leap, but it's all connected! For this week's episode, we stay in the early 1950's to align Jacqueline Bouvier with John F. Kennedy, at least in the background and courtship phases of their relationship, along with the new characters it brings into our universe. This cornerstone will lead us to the engagement and marriage within the next two years between Jack and Jac...

In this episode, we pause briefly within our Marilyn Monroe episodes to investigate the affair of Gloria Swanson and Joseph P. Kennedy. This liaison creates an example for the Kennedy boys that will factor into their treatment of their wives and mistresses in the coming years.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and Califo...

In this episode, we investigate the year of three weddings, and one split - 1954. It is not only Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio that will wed this year, but also Dominick Dunne and Peter Lawford. By the end of 1954, Marilyn is single again, and close to living her best life.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and Califor...

As we continue our investigation into Marilyn Monroe, we focus on the years 1951 to 1953. Marilyn connects with two important men in her life in this time period – the first being her future husband, Joe DiMaggio. The second man is Peter Lawford, who will intersect with her life, and Dominick’s too, in a variety of ways in the years that follow. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm...

Dominick Dunne, by his own admission, worshipped Marilyn Monroe, and was lucky enough to get to know her a bit during their overlapping years in Hollywood. In this episode, we’ll meet Marilyn at the beginning of her journey, including her childhood, first marriage, and the origins of her stardom. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com...

Done & Dunne has spent some time at Beverly Hills mainstay The Daisy, the exclusive club that Nick and Lenny were members of, and where Frank Sinatra once paid the maitre d’ to punch Dominick in the face. Years later, Nicole Brown Simpson was a hostess at The Daisy when she, very consequentially, met OJ Simpson. But before The Daisy, another legendary establishment occupied the same address. R...

Author Martin Turnbull has made Hollywood's Golden Age the focus of his career. His Garden of Allah novels transport readers to a time when the glitz and glamour of Hollywood was new, and would become the stuff of legend. In this wide-ranging conversation, we talk about The Garden of Allah, its famous players, The Hollywood Canteen, and so much more!  Enormous thanks to Martin for being so generou...

Our family members are not always who we think. When Eleonore Richland exposed her father’s dark legacy, she vowed to clean up the family business – and hired her half-brother, Santino Reyes, to help her do it. But old habits die hard. In the shocking new third season, Eleonore reckons with what her father always taught her growing up: medicine is a bloody business. From Wondery, the makers of “Th...

Darlings, in this episode, we pull the thread of Natalie Wood and connect her back into Laurel Canyon. Her parents built a home on Lookout Mountain on Woodrow Wilson Drive, that will have quite a storied history beyond Natalie, and into the spiderwebs that are Dominick Dunne.  Get ready to meet Mart Crowley, ponder the Boys in the Band, and recall Romanoff's (not those ones). Learn more about your...

In this episode, we move ahead in our Old Hollywood investigation to explore Dominick Dunne's universe in the 1950s and 1960s. In particular, Alicia focuses on Dominick's recollections in The Way We Lived Then , his photographic memoir released in 1999.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at h...

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In today's episode, we take an tour of Laurel Canyon, from the 16th Century to the Present Day. Laurel Canyon's storied history is fascinating and complex and all the players connect in one timeframe or another. This episode is your foundation and introduction for many of the stories to come in the next few weeks.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See Privacy Policy a...

In this Bonus Dunne Day Episode, Alicia takes you first to the West Coast to explore San Francisco's New Amsterdam, forever preserved in the song  Mr. Jones  by the Counting Crows. Then, we head to the East Coast - New York City - where we talk about the building, history, and the ghosts, too, of the  other  New Amsterdam.  Get ready for a cross-continent journey spanning more than a century. High...

Continuing our journey into Old Hollywood, Alicia unpacks the wild romance of the "It Couple" of Hollywood in the late 1910s, Olive Thomas and Jack Pickford. Both certainly have their archetypes, and lived them well. We follow Olive from her humble beginnings into her trajectory to fame, and Jack's esteemed pedigree as the brother of America's Sweetheart. Finally, we explore their marriage and, of...

You never really know someone…especially online. In today’s world, the power of influence can be the quickest path to money and fame, and it often ends in ruin. These are the stories of the world’s most insidious Scamfluencers. And we are their prey. On Wondery’s new weekly series, join co-hosts Scaachi Koul and Sarah Hagi as they unpack epic stories of deception from the worlds of social media, f...