A Tallulah Bankhead thread

[pagerbear]

OK, since you asked, I'll start:

Tallulah has lured Joan Crawford up to her place to seduce her. As she slips Joan's blouse off, Joan says, "Please be gentle! I have heart trouble--I have acute angina!" Tallulah says, "Well, I hope so darling, because your tits are doing nothing for me!"

[arwalden]

1. I Loved Her In "Lifeboat".

-- Allen

[WillParkinson]

2. The only thing I know about Tallulah is...

She played Black Widow on Batman in the 60's.

However...here are some quotes attributed to her:

If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.
Tallulah Bankhead




It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.

Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.

They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.

(on seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.

"“Don’t think I don’t know who’s been spreading gossip about me… After all the nice things I’ve said about that hag . When I get hold of her, I’ll tear out every hair of her mustache!”"

[pagerbear]

3. Her most famous quote?

At either St. Patricks Cathedral or Little Church Around the Corner (depending on which version you hear--I lean toward Li'l Church) upon seeing a thurifer processing with a pot of smoking incense:

"Darling, I love your drag, but your purse is on fire!"

[terrya]

4. Thank you!!

I was trying to remember that quote...

:-)

Remember when Tallulah was a guest star on the "Lucy and Desi Comedy Hour"?

:-)

Terry

[pagerbear]

6. I loved those episodes!

[BlackVelvetElvis]

10. <squeal!> That's great!

[bobbieinok]

5. i remember her radio show in the 50s

there was some song she always sang

anyone remember the show and the song?

[hlthe2b]

7. Ahh, yes Tallulah Bankhead: my own "little girl's" namesake!

Marlene Dietrich called her "the most immoral woman who ever lived". (major comment, coming as it did from Dietrich! I first saw the quote as "the wildest woman who ever lived," which seemed apropos for naming my own little wild girl- my Aussie-Lab mix)

Joan Crawford : "We all adored her. We were fascinated by her, but we were scared to death of her, too... I think she was one of the most exciting actresses we've had."


Flamboyant, bourbon-drinking, coke-snorting, smart-assed actress...Tallulah Bankhead was a famous actress in the 30's and 40's. Her more famous part was probably given to her by Alfred Hitchcock in LIFEBOAT, but she's also well known for portraying the "Black Widow" in the Batman tv series in the sixties. She even did a screen test for the part of Scarlett in "Gone with the Wind". More than her acting talents, Talluhlah Bankhead was known as a flamboyant figure, a character of the Hollywood society. She won the admiration of Winston Churchill, the devotion of Tennessee Williams... But her career faded in the 40's, in part because of her temper and constant alcohol and drugs habits. "Codeine...Bourbon..." were here last coherent words before she died in the winter of 1968.


Yes, she was fabulous. http://sme.kpn.be/s3/tallu.html

[terrya]

8. I'm not sure there was any other woman in Hollywood like her.

She was...herself. And she had affairs with men and women...I don't think she wanted to pigeonhole herself regarding her sexuality.

Like you said, she was fabulous.

Terry

[mitchum]

9. kick for Senator Bankhead's daughter

I love her...and I'm straight (go figure)