Ann Woodward Lived The American Nightmare

[@brandyjean7015]

With friends like Truman Capote; you dont need enemies.

[@karenroot450]

Wow what a tragic like for the whole family. Great to hear of their lives tho. Thanks for sharing. Capote was wicked

[@nancyvillines4552]

I hope you aren't depending on Truman's version of her husband's death? He's the only one who said he asked for a divorce. And how would he know because he apparently, according to Truman, told her the night he was shot? He was a shallow, narcissistic little man child who didn't care who he hurt.

[@melindadurchholz3738]

She didn't trust Truman Capote and didn't tell him her secrets. He disliked that she saw through him.

[@RobertDAvanzo-rk3ew]

I love Truman Capote!

[@Jamietheroadrunner]

I was so excited to see this edition of Feud. And I ended up falling in love with all the ladies, except Capote. He certainly was no lady, lol! He really was the stereotypical evil little queen, destroying people’s lives just because he could. Disgusting human being.

[@original.intent.bitcoin]

Capote the person not the writer: YUCK. He hated women. Projected self hatred onto and into women. He had a miserable ending or so I'm told. I was curious as I grew up in Upstate NY in the 70s & 80s reading Page Six, lol. Gotta go watch the ending...

[@joannegonzales7458]

Wasn't she. Ann Grenville?

[@CarolAnneRashee]

Did you know her?

[@rhondajohnson8310]

Yall know I love learning everything I can about the Swans... hers is by far the most tragic. Great job!

[@cwavt8849]

First things first, THANK YOU for narrating your stories instead of using a computer generated AI vouce. SO refreshing. Now to your content. This is an old story to me. I read of it decades ago. But it is a scandal and you researched it will. Your writing is good and I can't tell you how much I appreciate your diction. Best of luck with your channel.

[@liasisboa]

Proofread

[@aprilmorrison9627]

SAD.....just sad....especially for those two boys.

[@juliagray5634]

What tragedies all in one family. Unbelievable.

[@tracyd1233]

The Woodwards owned the great thoroughbred, Nashua - 1955 Belmont and Preakness winner, among others.

[@angelinalozada189]

Capote was a mean, vicious little man.

[@RobertDAvanzo-rk3ew]

Funny this is about a heterosexual murderer who messed with Truman and paid the price.

[@renskeconnell8038]

Capote sure wrecked many lives. What an awful narcissist he was.

[@ladyluck9469]

He was not nice

[@RobertDAvanzo-rk3ew]

Wonderful Truman hit back when you messed with him. Ann saw an advanced copy of Le Cote Basque and kicked the bucket

[@RobertDAvanzo-rk3ew]

​@@ladyluck9469 you mean Ann

[@christystewart4567]

He ran with a crowd that lived on gossip and scandal. IE he wasn’t the only one. It also sounds like Ann didn’t do herself any favors by being so desperate to be a big fixture in New York society that she engaged in this as well.

[@frejafan]

​@@RobertDAvanzo-rk3ewsociopath

[@carolynstewart8465]

Clause von bulow was accused of trying to kill his wife Sunny, told deliciously in the movie Reversal of Fortune. Sunny lived 30 years in a coma.

[@madeleine7411]

Excellent video! Tone and vocabulary is much appreciated. Good job,thank you.

[@AnnacolleenEtters]

My mother and Truman were schoolmates, in a tiny Alabama town, called Monroeville. Not sure why she called him by a different name, maybe "Dewey", or something that sounded close. There was another girl, named Emily, my father's younger sister, Mary Belle, but they called her "Sug", which was short for Sugar, and my mother, Colleen, whom the friends called "Babe"I used to have pictures of them, dressed to the nines, out in my grandparents farm fields.I met them, during a get-together at Emily's home, in the early 60s. It was mildly disconcerting, to watch my mother's giddiness, as a 6-year-old. I think it's sad, when people want to "be important" , instead of being content, because they are loved by a handful of family and friends.

[@tamibennett8683]

Capote and Harper Lee were childhood friends also.

[@marknewton6984]

​Ann- Margret?@@tamibennett8683

[@AnnacolleenEtters]

@@tamibennett8683 I never heard my mother discuss the name "Harper", or, if she did, it's passed from memory.

[@sylviacarlson3561]

Truman also lived next door to Harper Lee when they were kids.

[@Swelte]

She was a beauty. Well done!!!

[@Dhruv_Dogra]

Her forehead was too large.

[@FallenAngel9979]

@@Dhruv_Dogra What nonsense.

[@lizadivine3785]

She was just ok

[@poeticblade]

Ann Woodward's story sounds like human pinballs constantly crashing into each other, knocking one another off course. Between her mother-in-law and Truman Capote, she suffered whether she was guilty or innocent. What a sad tragedy.

[@nanabutner]

Truman Capote was NO ONES FRIEND!

[@DB-ne7ki]

The swans eventually took care of capote....

[@Linda98671]

What sad people, sorry for the two boys.

[@franklesser5655]

I think it was a tragic accident and that Ann truly loved Billy. What a shame that she was shunned by friends and family.

[@mikewendland4982]

I guess that money doesn't make you happier - you just wine and dine better!

[@pageribe2399]

I would sure like to find out for myself, though.

[@lindasue4237]

And very beautiful clothing

[@annajacob7981]

You're right. Money doesn't make you happier, per se. But it makes life sooooo much easier. Which has its own correlation to being at peace (if not necessarily "happy!").

[@Andreatheists-yy1oj]

Truman Capote. The little creep. Hope he’s paying for his part in this awful tale.

[@carlywright5127]

What her mother in law must have gone through, tragedy. Lose all her 3 Boys. I feel sad for Anns children.

[@Lily-e8z8t]

I love your accent! Also the content is stellar...thank you!

[@deirdresiegel7707]

🤓 While Capote has a place in the literary world, his childhood insecurities made him a vicious little man gasping for recognition and acceptance in the upper echelons of society that in turn proved why he would never make ‘their’ grade. 🤓

[@angelinalozada189]

Thank You.

[@waltersowell5477]

That is truly a tragic family story.

[@margyeoman3564]

That is one sad tale.

[@yordalyn]

There is a thinly veiled book passing as fiction by the late Dominick Dunne called the two Mrs Grenvilles. It was also a made for television film. In it he describes that he fell in love with Anne because of her character, strength, candor, and sense of humor and that he hated the suppressed and oppressive circle he came from. He could not stand to be married to one these women. However his family mostly the women, made life very difficult for her with snide remarks and downright insults. In the end she decided to blend in by changing her hairstyle, clothes and took voice and accent courses. She became like them and they begrudgingly accepted her. That's how he found her when he returned from abroad. He hated it. And the marriage started to crumble.

[@Moonie804]

I've read that book, still have it in my books collection.

[@sukijay4990]

Truman Capote was a horrible little man wasn’t he?

[@MaiRaven3]

Your accent…I could listen to you all day.❤

[@H_H_____]

I agree. So much like John Hannah. ❤

[@Elizabeth-yg2mg]

Plus, he gets right to the point.

[@marklingerfelt4965]

A lot of what is told about Ann is unsubstantiated but you have it right. Families like the one she married into do not speak about family issues or matters outside of the immediate family. Capote out and out lied about Ann. Who would believe her against his typewriter?

[@nobility66]

Unfortunately, suicide sometimes run in families.

[@brandyjean7015]

After the 1st event, it can all too quickly become seen as normalized behavior.

[@FallenAngel9979]

God. What an utterly tragic family. So terribly sad.

[@brendaleverick3655]

It seems the moral to the story is: whatever wrong you do others, you will pay for.

[@Andreatheists-yy1oj]

Did Truman Capote pay for his power hurt others?

[@christopherfanelli8821]

@@Andreatheists-yy1ojHe died all alone. So yes he did.

[@brendaleverick3655]

Yes, I would say that in the end, he did pay for all the people whom he hurt, as do we all.

[@educationalbrowsing8913]

It might take many years but the price will be paid.

[@TheNester.]

​@christopherfanelli8821 Not true, he was staying as a guest in the home of Joanne Carson, ex-wife of Johnny Carson former late night talk show host, when he died of liver disease complicated by phlebitis and multiple drug intoxication.

[@MaternalUnit]

Minor nitpick. The narrator said Ann's son survived after jumping from a tenth floor window. Ten stories is about 100 ft (30 meters). That is not a survivable fall. There are a handful of cases of people surviving much higher falls, but medical research has found that a fall of eight stories is virtually always fatal. Something is off about that detail in the video. Of course, this small thing does not detract from this excellent production! 😀

[@liasisboa]

Both Capote and his “swans” were narcissistic. However, contrary to some comments, Capote was not shallow by any means. He was a magnificent observer of human behavior and this is what made him a great writer. Few writers could paint a picture like Capote. The way he could weave a sentence is literary genius. I have read all his books at least ten times and am still in awe of his work.

[@CJ-pt4ku]

He was a great writer.

[@gailcaldwell1512]

I can not even imagine what a pathetic life it would be to spend your life just “hustling” to find a way to make a living, and get some extra attention the way that Truman Capote did. I mean his life was all about the women that he spent time with, and verbally destroying someone to gain some notoriety and attention from others. Ok, so what he wrote a book that was actually well written. The fact is, the tragedy of the story itself is what was most fascinating to him. And there are people EVERY DAY OF THE WORLD that just live to do that. In stead of trying to live a life of honesty, kindness and contribution to serving others, and BTW, I don’t care if someone finds that dull and simple, it is NOT. You have to make a decision in your life to live it well, and I don’t mean socially well, or you’re only successful if you’re rich and popular. No, that just happens to be chance, and very often hard work. But I know that it is a MISERABLE life when you are only happy when others are devastated. Help someone and keep your service and actions to yourself…ie: don’t brag about it. THAT is where true happiness lies. Serve GOD and live to serve others. It is true happiness!

[@hanselmansell7555]

Loving this channel, fascinating indeed 😲

[@krysstefan2505]

So so sad story ,hard to believe how difficult is to be millionaire,famous,and tragically complicated family life ….with tragic after tragic events ….just hard to be human …sorry for the pain and loss and suffering in one family I’m in total shock 😢 that is very rare….

[@anthonysheppard9247]

Tragic story ,very well told ,

[@desstanbridge8283]

What an absolute shame. So many people on this earth would have loved to have a fraction of the wealth and prestige x

[@lollipopsfordays3610]

You still don’t see that the wealth and ‘prestige’ is as much a curse as an advantage. You think someone else is deserving of their wealth and prestige, you still envy the materialism, what a shame

[@dianadenman5637]

It's interesting to read the true stories of "poor" or "ordinary" people who won a lottery and then their lives were destroyed because of it. A HUGE amount of money throws a person into an entirely different "jungle" than most of us live in, but it's a jungle, none the less.

[@shabbykat273]

Wealth and fame are totally wasted on the wealthy and famous.

[@ladyluck9469]

Most of these "swans" started off as mistresses

[@bethewalt7385]

One of Truman Capote's swans....they were close until his book Answered Prayers...

[@Jamietheroadrunner]

Capote used Ann to climb up New York’s society ladder and dropped her as soon as he made it into Babe Paley’s circle. Friendship was a one way street to him. He sucked all he could from u like some kind of society vampire and dropped u when u were no longer needed.

[@LannieLord]

So it's what Madonna said "I take what I need and I move on". ? @@Jamietheroadrunner

[@LannieLord]

Or what they said about Andy Warhol : he used people like tissues.

[@Wtfsince1982]

No they weren’t, they were never friends.

[@Jamietheroadrunner]

@@LannieLord yup. She’s another one. Show biz is filled with them 😆

[@leslielutz6140]

Best narrator.

[@cortrichards8179]

People say the worst things about Truman Capote. I can't join the gang and disparage someone that I have never met, so I won't. Modern films also seem to disparage the man, which I find sad. It's like that movie Factory Girl, about Edie Sedgwick and Andy Warhol, where they make Andy Warhol and the other gay guys look like woman hating jerks who just wanted to use her. That is so far from the truth that it beggars belief, and that is something I personally know for sure. Those boys loved Edie. That is the part that Hollywood ALWAYS gets wrong about gay men. They like to assume that we 'hate' women and want to only harm them, when that is the total opposite of the truth. You would think they could get it right by now. My own mother used to dress in drag as Truman Capote once in a while, and she looked just like him. Not kidding. I should add a bit more here, so here is my edit: It is true that Capote could be a very 'acidic' queen, who had quite the mouth and vocabulary, and who used it in many cases. He could and did say some pretty awful things about certain people. However, it was usually only those who had crossed him in the wrong way or who vocally, loudly and publicly disapproved of his sexuality and so called 'Lifestyle'. I can be the same way at times, but only to those who say nasty things about me or my partner, and those who vocally and loudly disapprove of us, which seems to be on the rise here in the USA, lately. Lots of Anti-LGBTQ laws are being introduced to Congress, where the US republicans want all of us LGBTQ people in Concentration Camps. I am not kidding either. I just read the notes from the Iowa republican caucus, and that is only one of the new laws they are attempting there. I counted them last night. There are exactly 40 Anti-LGBTQ bills that have been introduced. We cannot let this happen. Please help us by also being loud and vocal in regards to all this hate by US republicans. I cannot believe this is even happening in my country, and I am an old man. Thanks for another great video.

[@debralerner8298]

Dominic dunne the two mrs grenvilles

[@peggypasson8794]

I thought that was Capote ? Idk

[@debralerner8298]

@@peggypasson8794 nope google it and you will see🙂🙂🙂🙂

[@barbram8001]

I read it years ago, a good book.

[@nanabutner]

I watched the movie years ago and own his book. Such a very sad story!

[@debralerner8298]

@@nanabutner so did i and i came to the same conclusion🤔🤔🙂

[@d.l.l.6578]

Mark 8:34 “Then he called the crowd to him along with his disciples and said: “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. 35 For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me and for the gospel will save it. 36 What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? 37 Or what can anyone give in exchange for their soul?”

[@KLEShore]

What a sad sad story

[@l.m.mccormick1470]

Thanks!

[@Factinate]

Thank YOU!

[@RainsWorldVegasSlots]

Bullying is an age old problem and then there’s karma too

[@mckavitt13]

Many of us have, but few live to talk about it.

[@dsantamaria713]

Capote was nothing but a gossiping Queen.. Adding insult to injury, is the blind ignorance of " High Society" who only saw as far as their mirror, closets, and their Jewels...🤮 That said, her shooting her husband, was an accident, and nothing more, tragic as it was...

[@blazefairchild465]

Very sad family 3 out of 4 suicided & 1 killed.

[@stuartlee6622]

One of the Woodward boys jumped from the top floor of the Elsie Woodward mansion on East 86th Street between Fifth and Madison on the north side. It's still there!

[@JamboVidz]

Both sons -- years apart -- jumped to their deaths. Jimmy jumped from a hotel on Central Park South (he had tried once before), and William jumped from his upper east side apartment.

[@dorrielove]

Why would the Woodward Dogs Bark at the Master Mr Woodward. Ann lied when she said she thought her husband was a burglar.

[@loriblythe6635]

How tragic her life was. So sad

[@Satanna.avemaria]

The fact that she was cradling him and saying I did it says a lot about what really happened 😢 poor woman. I can’t blame her for her treatment to Truman Capote.

[@lizadivine3785]

Either the husband was wearing pajamas or the same clothes he had worn to the party. Either way he would have been easily identifiable. She killed him in cold blood. Home invaders don’t wear pajamas or suits.

[@sylviacarlson3561]

but wasn't it dark in the house? How could she have seen pajamas or a suit?

[@deemic23]

in actuality, he was nude

[@elnosworld9893]

So sad

[@grandmaoldschool7011]

Who would have a life goal of "being important"? She needed to take the divorce and get a decent settlement.

[@JamboVidz]

Both of her sons committed suicide, years apart, by jumping from high floors in NYC.

[@julesjay424]

Omg.. I didn’t know that… that’s horrific

[@surreygirl2075]

What a sad sad life t the family couldn't live with out each other and the horrible things that were said

[@C.O._Jones]

Oh, gee. Horrible rich people died. How awful. I may weep openly.

[@trevorstevens2889]

The music sometimes overpowers your quiet voice.

[@sylviacarlson3561]

Fascinating, but infinitely sad, sad story. How many people had a Mother and her two Sons who all took their own life? I remember reading about how Truman's "friends" turned against him when Answered Prayers came out because Ann wasn't the only one he crucified apparently.

[@andrewbrendan1579]

I read the book "This Crazy Thing Called Love", the story of the Woodwards, written by Susan Braudy and could hardly put it down. Having read the book, I go along with the scenario that the death of Billy Woodward really was an accident based on thinking he was a burglar. Not mentioned here is that Ann used a gun that was not very powerful. The shot went into Billy's eye then brain and he died. Had he been shot in a less vulnerable part of the body he very possibly would not have died. -- Dominick Dunne's novel "The Two Mrs. Grenville's is a fascinating novel based on the Woodwards. The author was friends with a Woodward relative who gave him a great deal of information about the family.

[@harrycarrey5124]

She definitely had a face for radio.

[@KK-eh2gm]

Truman Capote was the murderer in all of this.

[@rhondaguerrero2869]

That is soo creepy - father & son dating the same woman!! She was a gold digger - mom was right !!

[@THEBEARDEDTOOLGUY]

MONEY AND POWER AND Status and Still Not HAPPY

[@jerrymoore838]

Really heartbreaking that Elsie destroyed so many lives. She was incredibly toxic

[@LorieM1209]

Very sad

[@mmxxiv392]

I thought her mother in law resented her so why would she pay to help Ann in her murder trial?

[@margyeoman3564]

The name, the children, and maybe grandma was not the vicious b---h, it was suggested here. She also would have known her.

[@nanabutner]

“The FAMILY NAME MUST BE PRESERVED AT ALL COSTS!” “IMMAGE AND APPEARANCE ARE EVERYTHING!”

[@JamboVidz]

To avoid public scandal.

[@ritaparker478]

Treacherous bunch! So sad.

[@maryjanebrown4667]

Anne doesn’t look very nice. I suspect that Billy’s mother was right. And it sounds like Truman Capote really cleaned her clock.

[@cadillacdeville5828]

Why didn't she go get her children? Her MIL didn't haven't custody.

[@renmoody3771]

Why did you keep showing Ann-Margret?

[@katiekarakondis3348]

Because her name is Ann? Not truthful images.

[@carolinehamilton1565]

Ann Margaret played a character based on Woodward in "The Two Mrs. Grenvilles", a film based on Dominick Dunne's novel.

[@Palletknifepaint]

Depressing

[@Boz0O]

Imagine growing old with her in VR real quick before she passed

[@lindapeterson1443]

Very annoying and loud background music; drowns out the narrative

[@Rafael-oi6dj]

Capote was a creep that talked with the voice of a five year old

[@christineweaver3090]

Why would the boys start acting strangely if they had no mother or father bringing them up? Their parents weren't ill, any relatives Ill?

[@FallenAngel9979]

It’s not about their being bought up by them. It’s that they’d genetically inherited these bad things.

[@GlennaVan]

@@FallenAngel9979 I seriously doubt the hatred living in their fraternal father helped them much.

[@catherinemerrill5511]

Horrifying. She should have gone back to Greenbow, ALABAMA!

[@traceyestes]

I loved Truman. As a writer, we tend to write about people we know or subjects we're interested in. People that aren't writers don't understand this. I loved Breakfast at Tiffany's and his book In Cold Blood. He was brilliant. It's a shame so many people are making such horrible comments about him. It's not like any of you knew him.

[@danielbryan7378]

What's not made clear is why the hated Mother-in-law would pay to influence the trial so she was acquitted? It doesn't make sense.

[@ginasmith1665]

What a horrible human Capote was. Dragging so many down for the sake of his own ego.

[@luzonvisayasmindanao1354]

Full of hypocrites. Live just the way you are. Poor Ann have to live and deal with those who sided with the rich and dark shadowed creatures.

[@sylviacarlson3561]

who is the actress and actor in 11:34 -11:37 and again at 13:09? Anybody??

[@victorfranko8317]

Same thing happened to my buddy Eric

[@giaatta9303]

Interesting thank you

[@lisanokes1446]

what a tragedy, truman capote was evil as a journalist or writer or author, he should have checked to see if anne was truly guilty before condemning her to public eyes⛸️🎇⛸️🥶🌞🌞😈👿💩👺👺👹😈👿 that makes him evil 🌽❄️🌄🍖if she was innocent, he was wrong, but if anything else made her look guilty, they should have gotten a detective or private investigator to prove her innocent or guilty 🎉🎉🎉what a🧫🌞🥶🥶⛸️🎇🎇🍝🧁☔☔ sad story 🎇🎇🎇

[@ripflip1112]

Who is the narrator??

[@ripflip1112]

Would REALLY like answer to my QUESTION !!!( not just “ like”)

[@michaelgrant250]

Talented but not someone I would lked to have been in living room setting for afternoon coffee with a few friends. Years ago I spent many times with friends that tried to outdo each other with their dishy comments. Why? I was young and trying to find my way in the world of college gays. I didn't last long. I knew wrong when I witnessed it.

[@deemic23]

A fascinating tale but this version is riddled with errors and inaccuracies unfortunately

[@bernadettelee155]

What a bunch of shallow self centered people 😔😔

[@lisaellis2593]

High society, did not accept her, she had no style,(class) these are h😢er mother in law's words not mine.

[@shootfirst2097]

She was nice-looking, I wouldn't say "gorgeous."

[@cynthialambert9067]

I clicked the "Don't recommend channel" option, so I wouldn't see these in my feed any more. The thumbnails are pure clickbait, and many times don't deliver. The content is mostly general knowledge and doesn't offer any insight.

[@adelaney537]

what a sad life she had. What an evil specimen Truman Capote was did he get his karma??