This post previously appeared last week, by mistake. Sorry. Put dead bats on my head. Cover me with honey and roll me on the ant heap. — Kim
When asked why she was leaving the New York theater business for Hollywood, the languorous Tallulah Bankhead is reputed to have said: “Fame, money and to fuck that divine Gary Cooper.”
Well. she achieved all three goals, and was scandalous in a time when scandal was assiduously avoided by the studio bosses. And her life… oy, what a life. (Read all about it here.) And then there was her beauty.
Thise eyes… that heavy-lidded, sleepy look… yikes. (And yes, she does resemble Bette Davis, and in more ways than one: they played pretty much the same roles, Tallulah on stage, and Davis in the movie versions.) And her posture? Someone once said of her that she didn’t sit in a chair or on a couch; she looked as if she’d been poured into it.
And let’s not even talk about what she did to a bed (both in pictures and in real life).
I find her fascinating, and I’m not the only one.
Exquisite. And let’s not even talk about that voice.
