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Feb 1, 2024 · Feud: Capote vs. The Swans is the latest entry in the crime anthology series, retelling the events of Truman Capote's controversial 1975 Esquire magazine piece that shone a light on some of the scandalous affairs of New York's female socialites, prompting these women to vow to ruin his life.
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- Truman Capote
- Babe Paley
- Lee Radziwill
- CZ Guest
- Slim Keith
- Pamela Churchill Harriman
- Gloria Guinness
- Other Possible Characters
Even before he became a national figure and cemented his place in the American literary cannon with 1966’s In Cold Blood, Capote was both a writer and society figure of prominence in New York City’s social scenes (thanks in no small part to the success of his earlier novella, Breakfast at Tiffany’s). The success of Blood afforded him to throw his i...
Girls still dream of living lives like Babe Paley’s, who will be played by Naomi Watts. The daughter of a prominent brain surgeon, she scored a job at Vogue in 1938, and was already noted as one of the best dressed women in the world by the early ’40s. She left Vogue in 1947 following her marriage to media tycoon William S. Paley, and became a full...
Yes, Jackie Kennedy is the mainstream icon, but fashion insiders have always regarded her younger sister Lee Radziwill as the true style icon. Although she was a mainstay of high society, she wasn’t afraid of a bit of edge—Radziwill and Capote once followed The Rolling Stones during their 1972 tour. Capote, in turn, worked hard to help Radziwill es...
Another society doyenne who was already a member of the Best Dressed List Hall of Fame long before Capote met her, Guest was the daughter of a Boston investment banker. She dabbled in acting before marrying Winston Frederick Churchill Guest, a polo champion and member of a prominent British family (and, yes, a first cousin of the Winston Churchill)...
Long before she came to New York, Slim Keith, a Californian by birth, was a Hollywood socialite who counted director Howard Hawks as her first husband. She’s also credited with paving the way for Lauren Bacall’s career by demanding her husband screen test her for an upcoming movie after seeing her on the cover of Harper’s Bazaar. Keith, however, le...
Harriman first came to prominence by marrying Winston Churchill’s son, but divorced him after he racked up debts and she racked up affairs. She married Leland Hayward just hours after his divorce from Keith became official. She also had a fling with Paley’s husband before their marriage—one of her many dalliances with powerful men. A British journa...
Although she liked to pretend she was born to a humble seamstress and a political revolutionary, in reality, Guinness was born in Mexico to a prominent journalist father and a socialite mother. At some point in her life, she may or may not have been a spy ...possibly for the Nazis. No one knows for sure to this day. Despite this, she was often desc...
The reports suggest the series will focus on the group above, but there’s certainly room for other prominent socialites of the time to make appearances. That includes Gloria Vanderbilt (mother of Anderson Cooper), Happy Rockefeller, and Ann Woodward, a socialite who may or may not have murdered her husband and gotten away with it. Woodward actually...
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- August 11, 1986
- Every Major Actor & Cast List for Feud Season 2: Capote vs. The Swans.
- Naomi Watts as Babe Paley. Heading the Feud: Capote vs. The Swans cast is Naomi Watts, playing Babe Paley, who worked as a fashion editor for Vogue in the ‘40s, earning her a reputation as one of the best-dressed women in New York.
- Diane Lane as Slim Keith. Slim Keith was a major mover and shaker behind-the-scenes in the Golden Age of Hollywood, with her first husband legendary filmmaker Howard Hawks and her second being powerful agent and producer Leland Hayward.
- Tom Hollander as Truman Capote. Making up the other side of the feud is Truman Capote, the author behind such celebrated novels as Breakfast at Tiffany’s and In Cold Blood.
Jan 3, 2024 · Capote's Women by Laurence Leamer tells the story of how Truman Capote befriended society women Barbara "Babe" Paley, Gloria Guinness, Marella Agnelli, Slim Hayward, Pamela Churchill, C. Z. Guest,...
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Jan 30, 2024 · Epitomized by the Slim Aarons photos that captured her cool blonde patrician beauty (Capote once described her as “blanc de blanc perfection”), C.Z. Guest was one of the only swans who ...
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Sep 26, 2023 · The series chronicles the epic fallout between Truman Capote, played by Tom Hollander, and his "Swans," a group of powerful female friends including Babe Paley (Naomi Watts), C.Z. Guest (Chloë ...
