Bathing Broads

With a gimlet and a pool boy both within reach, no doubt.

Tallulah Thursday!

"The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again I'd make all the same mistakes - only sooner."

Nature's Call

...[Tallulah] had to go to the john, but found when she was settled in for the duration that there was no toilet paper at hand. "So I looked down and saw a pair of feet in the next stall. I knocked very politely and said: 'Excuse me, dahling, I don't have any toilet paper. Do you?' And this very proper Yankee voice said: 'No, I don't.' Well, dahling, I had to get back to the podium for Adlai [Stevenson]'s speech, so I asked her, very politely you understand, 'Excuse me dahling, but do you have any Kleenex?' And this now quite chilly voice said: 'No, I don't.' So I said: 'Well then, dahling, do you happen to have two fives for a ten?'" - from People Will Talk by John Kobal

Don't Ask, Don't Tell

Tallulah Bankhead and friends at Finnochio's, ca. 1950's

"How should I know, dahling? He's never sucked my cock." - Tallulah Bankhead, queried about co-star Tab Hunter's sexual orientation

Tab Hunter and friends in The Girl He Left Behind (1956, Warner Bros.)

Constant Craving

"But really, dahlings -- sixty apples a day!" - Tallulah Bankhead, after being advised by a doctor to eat an apple each time she craved a drink

Rhythm of the Rain

Tallulah Bankhead in the stage production of Rain (1935)

"Dahling, you're divine. I just fucked your husband. You're next." - Tallulah Bankhead to Joan Crawford

Joan Crawford in Rain (1932, United Artists)

When Caught Between Two Evils...

"My father warned me about men and booze, but he never said a word about women and cocaine."

Sisters Under the Skin

"Alcohol does things to your face and skin. You don't get away scot-free. Pretense is futile. Look at Tallulah Bankhead. Or me." - Geraldine Page

...But She Drifted

"I'm as pure as the driven slush."

Three's a Crowd...

...Talu's a party!

Fasten Your Seatbelts

"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!" - Tallulah Bankhead on Bette Davis

She Bangs

She looks like a flower, but she stings like a bee.

See What the Boys in the Back Room Will Have

Stop Us if You've Heard This One Before

So, a vegetarian, a bisexual, and a Christian Scientist walk into a bar...