Why Tallulah Bankhead Never Became a Movie Star 

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is this a crossover episode?!

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COLLAB OMG PLZ

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I didn’t know this. Thank you for the tidbit 🙌🏿☺️

@@EvonneLindiwe You're welcome.

Hi. echoes... "Tallulah was ahead of her time in many ways..." so indicative of the quintessential #Aquarius... per study *and* Observations.

@@bethbartlett5692 Thank you so much for your reply. I'm honored. 🧡

I think, ironically (at least from what I've read) she was definitely secure, but also deeply insecure, chronically afraid of being alone. I wanted to talk about this more in the video because that's a part of her we almost never hear about...like not the fun, messy part but the kind of sad, messy part. Couldn't really find a place to fit it in.

@@bkrewind That’s fine. I find that quality in her quite relatable actually. It’s food for thought.

@@bkrewind I agree that she was very insecure - she had to be, otherwise she wouldn’t have abused so many substances in order to numb herself. She burned herself out at a relatively young age.

@@bkrewind You wont find this info on the internet.

Like Davis, she PRETENDED to be 'secure in herself'. Neither would've made it without their nicotine addictions, not to mention their heavy drinking.

Agreed.

Or girlfriends...

Amen!

Why? Bette did that with Miriam Hopkins. They despised each other.

@@anthonythomas1504 yep! I love her movies where she plays a sister. She's always at her best then. The Old Maid, In This Our Life, And Whatever Happened to Baby Jane. I would think something like A Stolen Life with Bette and Tallulah would have been great, but twin Bette Davis was already iconic.

Whoa there!! I did not know this part of Tallulah! Not that I see her as the "white saviour" type, but more of a woman who lived boldly by her own rules and let the world fit around her!! Thanks for your post!!

Plus she was from the South and her dad was a powerful politician in the south. I'm sure he was antagonistic to her life, career and her politics.

Her best performance I have seen in the movies is the Lubitsch production of A Royal Scandal. Tallulah, Anne Baxter, Vincent Price ... What a great movie!

Tallulah and Billie Holiday were lovers as well.

@@VCT3333 He wasn't really! He had wanted to be an actor at one point in his life and the whole family sort of saw her acting as like "keeping the name relevant and public." He was pretty supportive, only occasionally rankled by some her juicier quotes haha. He was also speaker of the House for FDR (and nearly his VP), so like...a pretty liberal guy himself (for the time).

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Mine is when she asked Joan Crawford what perfume she was wearing. Joan: It's called Come to Me. Tallulah: It doesn't smell like cum to me.

Isn’t that rather mean, or do I miss something?

@@sarasamaletdin4574 maybe you missed the fact that she was from another era. Funnier times....

This reminds me in a weird way of Joaquin Phoenix. So open, such a truth teller, so unafraid to be seen as a deeply flawed human. But of course he’s a man… makes all the difference.

Well DUH. You gotta play the studio game or you can’t win. You apparently don’t know that world whatsoever…..

Absolutely, they couldn't control her.

@@6Haunted-Days Why are you belittling this comment? WTH are you??

@@6Haunted-Days do you really know who Bankhead was? The studio execs were powerful and so was Ms. Bankheads family. Her dad was a senator and her granddaddy was a politician as well. The studios can't play her. She played them. But I read she was a ga ga over Greta Garbo. Read she hosted parties just so she can invite her. And of course Garbo was Garbo -- she hated crowds. But she obliged one time and they said Bankhead was over the moon. Garbo just stayed for a little while.

Such a great idea!

I agree! ^

I wish she continued on the winning ones first, due to my OCD and because when she isn’t picking from a established lineup she picks usually ones that are already very famous so we know them, or ones that appeal to her who are similar in many aspects.

PLEASE MAKE THIS HAPPEN. Mae West was someone, along with Tallulah, who my feminist mother taught me about. She wanted me to see that being sexy and being intelligent aren’t mutually exclusive, and it worked. Mae was such a force.

There's a great documentary about Mae Wes, I think produced by PBS, she was truly a pioneer for Women. Her mainstream career, didn't start until she was 40, when she received her first film contract.

😂That's gold

The only time Tallulah doesn't shine on screen is when directed by Cukor, so of course he'd say that. He got a LOT better as a director, but that description of Tallulah is absolute nonsense

... & I'm sure my old gran would say that's why she caught pneumonia! 😜

I had first seen this film in a junior high English class... out teacher was really a fan and it must be ultimately well written.

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@MissDroplette That's about right, I was 14 in 1966.

WOWEE ZOWEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That's quite a post!!! I'll always love her.

U must be very old

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@@jenniferhamm4783 😂😂😂😉I’d say so🤔😊🥰

WOW-EE! I'm a boomer and grew up on tales of WWII and NEVER heard this one.

Lollapalooza also did the trick..it was easy to spot a Japanese on how they tried to struggle with all these L's strung together

Great fun fact.

I hope that's true!

@@anastasiabeaverhausen8220 Why wouldn’t it be! Go back to listening to your QAnon crap!

Thanks to waiting for a phone call and the RU-vid algorithm I found this site and read your comment. Funny as hell and I think Ms. Bankhead would have been a hoot to have a drink with. I've always been attracted to strong women that have a certin flair. LOL.

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I read where there have been more than one actress that did not waer underwear . Also I read that while rehearsing for her appearance on The Lusi-Desi Comedy Hour Ms Bankhead showed up for a script conferance in Arnaz ' office and took off everything she was wearing while going over the script . In front of Ball , Arnaz , Vance , Frawley and I think the writers Carroll , Davis et, al.

That was probably my favorite episode also.

It's great Tallulah really knocked it out of the park and had an iconic moment with Lucy.

Mom and aunt would call me that, too whenever I was overly dramatic.

Same with my grandmother. Would always call me Tallulah when I was particularly opinionated.

I suggest it was not "Misbehavior" that was your Mother's intention, rather - "an inner demanding of Independence that erupted" and that being seen as misbehaving by Society's Ideaoligies. There's a greater expansion of cause in this interpretation that may offer you clarity and comfort, with it and you're You... Cause - Actions - Effects of Behaviors "a Behavioral Sociologist perspective"

My mom has always called me Tallulah as well!

BOTH were in TGHE DAYDREAMER< the 1966 Viderocraft, soion to be Rankin/Bass Hans Christian ANderson Musical, as their last appearance!(as voices of the Sea Witch in the Little Mermaid, with Hayley Mills as the mermaid), and the rat in Thumbelina with Patty Duke as Thumbelina. Patty's TV show costar Paul O'Keefe plays Hans in the Daydreamer. Isn;'t it Cosy(

Meh, a century later and 'seductive foreign rich guy drags reluctant white bread girl into BDSM she learns to love' is still a genre. You'll never lose money on that one. Call it 5o shades of Nxivm and fans will even line up for branding!

@@voiceofraisin3778 you miss out the important part where those roles are the only roles they were offered/ get to play. Of course the genre and archetype is still relevant, but actors who play them now aren’t bound by it to be the only roles they play.

Hope you feel better soon

@@bkrewind Thank you so much, means a lot.

wow I literally feel your situation from the way you wrote this

Get well I'm a 2 Time COVID-19 surviour

That's terrible!! Hope you're feeling better, hope you're vaccinated, hang in there.

What is so great about vulgarity?

@@IrishTexan09 Just take a seat

Yep 👍

@@IrishTexan09 😂😂😂it has its place at times-imo

@@IrishTexan09 It used to have shock value.

She said she just became an actress so she can ____ (rhymes with luck) the actor Gary Cooper. That became a famous quote of her then. You might find her repartee with Larry Hagman (about sex) interesting.

Hillary is the real Regina Giddings.

Always, her videos are so delightful

Holy Hollywood! !A huge bunch of stars, fading or not by whatever standards, were continually dropping everything to win guest villain roles on the Batman show. Happily, the show's creator/producer William Dozier chose Ms. Bankhead. A queen indeed, dahhll.

Queen Pette Buttiget 💄 Queen of Transportation

She's wonderful in Life Boat😍

@@kallen868 Yes, fantastic fusion of star and role- thank God Tallulah and her image live on on screen, mainly because of this one Hitchcock classic.

I saw Lifeboat a few years ago (probably on TCM) as well and I was absolutely mesmerized by Tallulah Bankhead. Funny how chemical images on celluloid or pixels in a digital medium can have such an impact. Sixty odd years after that film was exposed, here I was captivated by the magnetic personality of someone who died over 50 years ago.

That was my first Tallulah experience!

How wonderful she was in Lifeboat! Unforgettable. Darkly witty and compassionate. The first thing I ever saw her in was the absolutely terrifying “Die, Die, My Darling”. Granted, it is a cheesy vehicle for a star of her caliber, but she is sensational in it. The older Tallulah played a religious fanatic obsessed with her recently deceased son. She imprisons the son’s wife in her creepy house along with her equally creepy minions. She attempts to convert the trapped daughter in law to her strange , obsessive, twisted religion. Throughout the movie her character gradually goes completely mad, becoming more and more sadistic and homicidal . I was maybe 10 or so. Her performance absolutely flayed me-but, I’ve never, ever forgotten it. She committed to the part with searing intensity. Her one of a kind voice and her acting, which can only be described as a great force unleashed , is phenomenal. It’s still worth a watch

Makes me have more respect for Bruce and Demi for naming their youngest daughter after this fabulous, outspoken woman. I raise my daughters not to apologize for being themselves and Tallulah may have been a flawed human, she OWNED it. I love her.

She wasn't bisexual she was ambisextrous.

@@abandonedfragmentofhope5415 what

@@damnmuggle That's from a quote of hers when she described her bisexuality.

It's seems some got offended and it's gone now 🤦🏻‍♀️

THIS VIDEO MUST HAPPEN!!!

Love Carol! ❤️⭐️

YESSSS!!!!!!

Catch the little -known movie; 'Skidoo' with Carol Channing. Pure silly! Love it!

Carol Channing appeared in an episode of The Love Boat.

She did Streetcar! I've read a couple of different versions of how the play went (some said she was great, some said she was awful) but there's a famous Tennessee Williams quote that circles around pretty often that says he hated her performance because it felt like a parody of Blanche lol

She was mesmerizing!

I've heard that she died with an estate of several million dollars. She made a lot of money on that radio show. I listened to one episode of it. The announcer starts off the show in astonishment. After listing who's going to be on the show, he gasps when she's brought out. "You mean she actually showed up?" I've also seen pictures of Margaret O'Brien dressed up as her side kick, mini-Tallulah. Her booze and drug problems got the best of her. Predictably, she became a gay icon for this.

@@markthomas6703 If that wealth is true (and I don't doubt it) it makes the burial even odder. It's just a very random place. After making the long drive out there I was left flummoxed by the whole thing.

@@EstrafaDC Maybe she didn't leave instructions about where to be buried. Maybe the executor of her will just didn't know any better place. Would Estelle Winwood have done better?

@@EstrafaDC Her sister was living in the area where Tallulah was buried.

@@kathyh7215 Oh THANK YOU!! Cannot thank you enough for solving that odd mystery. Strange she was left there all by her lonesome. But at least it's a beautiful spot. Thanks again!

Kay Francis is another actress who was so popular in the 30s but who almost no one remembers.

Yes! Shelley is a wealth of content!😍

ohh yes!!

Neither had the beauty or the fieriness required to play Scarlett.

@@ad6417 I don't think fierceness is the word and don't know what word would work in its' place. What other word do you think would work?

@@richardmcleod1930 I didn't write fierceness.

@@ad6417 I wonder who did and what other word they might have used? Actually they used the word "fieriness" instead of what I originally read the word to be.

The only reason there was any "rivalry" was because Bette Davis played the roles in the films that Tallulah created on stage.

@@MetFan37 No fault of Bette's. Miriam Hopkins was another Tallulah.

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Yep! Apparently the issue was the she just hated underwear generally. She also got in trouble on the stage for this...I believe one of the unions had to intervene because there were enough complaints from people sitting in the front row lol

The original story was based on an incident film and theater star Elisabeth Berger told to author Mary Orr (DVDs and Blu-rays have an extra, fascinating feature concerning Orr's run-ins with the real Eve). Davis has stated she was dealing with a throat problem during filming, which lent much to the Tallulah comparison, along with the frequent pointed barbs Mankiewicz so adeptly gifts to Margo, which do indeed seem to be exactly what Tallulah would have said in similar circumstances.

All About Eve was written and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, a Hollywood legend.

The film was likely about Bette because her life WAS unfolding like the character and where as Tallulah was in a league of her own to not be pitied or compared to anyone. And frankly Im offended that Bankhead would think the movie was about her considering how unique she was in her own right.

A video on the Bennett sisters would be great!

Yes!

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Agreed!

What's ironic is how ALL of her movies actually WERE good but just weren't Hollywood enough like the names you mentioned!

Creator of The Music Man, too.

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