Tuesday, October 11, 2011
That Crazy Tallulah Bankhead!!!!
Notorious drunk and cocaine addict, was known to drink two entire bottles of Old Granddad per day; appeared stumbling drunk on “The Lucy Show”; her husband divorced her, citing “extreme mental cruelty”; described as “the most immoral person alive” by the great Marlene Dietrich; paid young gay men to populate her home, and referred to them as her “caddies”; once engaged her god-daughter in a makeshift voodoo ritual as an attempt to kill Senator Joseph McCarthy (McCarthy actually did die within a month of her ritual by the way); once fell asleep with a lit cigarette and set her pet poodle Millicent on fire - when one of her “Caddies” discovered the blazing dog, he woke Bankhead. She responded by saying “Millicent’s on fire? Put the goddamn thing out!” and then passed out again, as her bed smouldered around her. Now that's a damn drunk!!! Thank God the Mistress doesn't smoke.
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She was outrageous! So many quotes and stories about her! Thanks for the reminder!
ReplyDeleteDidn't Kathleen Turner play her on stage? I would love to see a film about her life.
ReplyDeleteI love La Bankhead!
ReplyDeleteok she seems rather an odd woman to be around bet she kept things very intetresting
ReplyDeleteLOL! Are you sure this isn't the Mistress with all those caddies???
ReplyDeleteDon't you just adore a good entertaining drunk? Tallulah also had a great laugh, like a "I don't give a shit" kind of laugh!
ReplyDeleteYes she did like her caddies and substances!!! Her qoute come to mind-" My father told me about men and booze, but he never said anything about women and cocaine"
ReplyDeleteGood old Tallulah...... she loved herself a nice drunken time!
ReplyDeleteHoney, you two would have been good friends!
ReplyDeleteadore the name Talluhah~ so dramatic!
ReplyDeleteTallulah would have been fun to party with.
ReplyDelete...perhaps a few similarities -but The Mistress has a hell-of-a lot more Class!!! ;)
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