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This Crazy Thing Called Love
Susan Braudy
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The Golden World and Fatal Marriage of Ann and Billy Woodward
出版Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2014-11-12
主題Biography & Autobiography / WomenTrue Crime / Murder / GeneralBiography & Autobiography / Rich & Famous
ISBN08041533539780804153355
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=kdYVBQAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋In 1955, Ann Woodward shot her husband, Billy, in their Oyster Bay, Long Island, home. While she was cleared by a grand jury, which believed her story that she had mistaken Billy for a prowler who had been recently breaking into neighboring houses, New York society was convinced that she had deliberately murdered Billy and that her formidable mother-in-law, Elsie Woodward, had covered up the crime to prevent further scandal to the socially prominent family. The incident became fiction in Truman Capote's malicious 1975 Esquire story, leading to Ann's suicide, and later was the subject of Dominick Dunne's The Two Mrs. Grenvilles. Now, after years of research, Braudy reveals the truth behind the legend. Tracing Ann's life from her difficult Kansas childhood through her early years as a model and aspiring actress to her stormy marriage to Billy Woodward and the sad years of her social exile after his death, Braudy shows how Ann, a victim of cruel gossip and class snobbery, could not have deliberately killed Billy.