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Podcast #78: Paula Fox


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It’s our last episode of Season Seven, and our last episode of 2024, which means it’s Rotkäppchen time! Join us as we toast to Dead Ladies with German fizzy wine, and hear the story of another fabulous woman.

DLS cofounders Katy Derbyshire and Florian Duijsens join the party as we get ready to hear the story of writer Paula Fox. As Florian explains, this talented author’s personal plot twists and turns include a stint as foreign correspondent, receiving a baby alligator in the mail, writing award-winning children’s books and a novel adapted for a film starring Shirley MacLaine, oh—also being Courtney Love’s grandmother (but not knowing that for decades).

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Show notes:

Read more: Podcast #78: Paula Fox
Paula’s great-granddaughter Frances Bean Cobain in and ex utero
Paula Fox’s gorgeous, terrible parents, Elsie de Sola and Paul Hervey Fox
Paula and her beloved Uncle Elwood Corning
Paula’s first movie star, Lilyan Tashman
Young Paula in Queens
Posters for the worst movie Graham Greene ever saw
The last thing Paula needed
Paula as a young woman
Paula’s marvelous memoirs of her childhood and her time as a journalist in war-torn Europe
The movie that bought Paula her brownstone
Paula in said brownstone
The only biography of Paula’s so far is in German

Our theme music is “Little Lily Swing” by Tri-Tachyon. Thanks for listening! We’ll be back with a new episode next year.

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