A STORY OF

THE ROARING 20s

“Peaches,” as he would later call her, and “Daddy,” as he had come to be known, met at a high school sorority dance in 1926. He was 51 and she was 15. Thirty-seven days later they were married, and 296 days after that they would begin a legal battle for separation that would cast their tempestuous drama into a national scandal, and forever change the American moral compass. Peaches and Daddy historically recounts the improbable romance, marriage and ultimate legal battle for separation of this publicity craving Manhattan couple in America’s “Era of Wonderful Nonsense.” Their story is one of dysfunction and remarkable excess, yet at the time, the lurid details of their brief courtship and marriage captured the imagination of the American public like no other story of its day.