In this weekly feature, I'll share with you a weekly guest, and you tell me in only three words what come to mind. This week, a truly fabulous legend darlings.
In three words.....
Tallulah Bankhead
LIVE! LIVE! Life is a banquet, and some sorry sons of bitches are starving!
smart, non-conforming, actress
ReplyDeleteQUEEN of quotes!
ReplyDeleteFor example... The Republican party should be put in dry dock and have the barnacles scraped off it's bottom."
And in response to that from another of my favorite patron saints... "I don't know alot about politics apparently, but can recognize a good party man when I see one."
DeleteOur Mistress Reincarnated.
ReplyDeleteShe sniffed stardom.
ReplyDeleteGin, Pills, Cocaine.
ReplyDeleteAll her favorites.
devastating wit & snark.
ReplyDeletehusky voiced lesibianette
ReplyDeletedrunken brilliant woman!
ReplyDeleteDahling Dahling Dahling
ReplyDeleteHated Bette Davis
Just for you dear Bob-
DeleteTallulah on Bette- “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!”
She had some choice words for Bette!
DeleteAnd Bette had some for her ... as when Ed Sullivan offered Davis $10,000 to do an imitation of Bankhead on television:
"Miss Bankhead isn’t well enough known nationally to warrant my imitating her.”:
And what's really funny, is that Bette tried her damnest to act like Tallulah.... Bette Davis, clearly had benefitted from studying her speech patterns, vocals and mannerisms.
Deletesupported liberal causes.
ReplyDeleteVoracious sexual appetite.
ReplyDelete"Codeine and... bourbon."
ReplyDeleteHer last words.
START - WITHOUT - ME
ReplyDeleteFirst class bitch!
ReplyDeleteI adore her.
Zany - delightfully complex.
ReplyDeletetempestuous, flamboyant actress
ReplyDeletecharitable, kindness and generosity.
ReplyDeleteTis true and she hid it. She was very generous to those in need, supporting disadvantaged foster children and helping several families escape the Spanish Civil War and World War II.
Catastrophically self-destructive.
ReplyDeleteFasten Your Seatbelts
ReplyDeleteJP
Sassy Sexy Smart
ReplyDeleteLast request-bourbon.
ReplyDeleteScared Joan Crawford.
ReplyDeleteWhat's that tell you.
exhibitionist, glamour, vixen
ReplyDeletelife of party!!!!!!!
ReplyDeletepolitical, liberal supporter.
ReplyDeleteThe Bankheads of Alabama were aristocracy—her grandfather and uncle were both United States senators—and her father went on to become a successful polictian ending as a much admired Speaker of the House under Roosevelt. Tallulah, in turn, was a lifelong passionate Democrat, and took credit—some of it deserved—for helping elect both Truman and Kennedy.
famous flamboyant shenanigans
ReplyDeleteDidn't wear underwear.
ReplyDeleteSome of the cast members of Lifeboat complained to director Alfred Hitchcock about the above (since Tallulah had to walk up and down a ladder leading into and out of a tank of water), and he just replied that wardrobe was somebody else's department.
"All About ME"
ReplyDeleteAs Tallulah said:
Delete“Say anything about me, darling, as long as it isn't boring.”
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