Thursday, June 23, 2016

Blind Items Revealed #2 - Old Hollywood

January 5, 2016

This actress never really got above B list despite her acting resume and her family pedigree. She acted for nearly fifty years and probably took three times that many lovers in her career. Drugs and a partying lifestyle made her a scandal in her storied family. She once was almost deported from a country because of the number of high school boys and girls she slept with in one year.

Tallulah Bankhead

32 comments:

sandybrook said...

What would coming from a family of redneck politicians have to do with being a acting star? Most Broadway stars (which she was more than anything else) are unknown to the masses and gossip columns anyway. I can see her screwing kids since that's what they do, and drink because what else was there to do in the South back then?.

crystalmeh said...

Let's slut shame this woman for behavior men are "storied" to be guilty of since forever. That seems fair.

Kno Won Uno said...

Tallulah Bankhead had zero fucks to give when that was a tough life to live for a woman. Such badassery. And. That. Voice.
Love her five-ever

John said...

You were all good til 'high school'.

mariaj said...

Wow, she was an interesting person for sure...i just knew about her that she auditioned for the role of Scarlett O Hara, and was deemed too old to play her..and actually, 36 years were too much for that role.

Salaam said...

I love that she played a super villain on the Batman TV show in the 60s.

Ay said...

None of it is ok, regardless of gender.

You're the disease, I'm the cure! said...

I lock that opens for many keys is a chitty lock.

A key that opens many locks is a master key.

:eyeroll: said...

Enough of your shame-shaming, who are you to tell anyone they are wrong? (Yeah, things look different when you actually think them through)

shakey said...

She was probably at some boarding school while a teenager.

Ay said...

The master key can still get gonorrhea.

BBC said...

Not really correct to categorise her as B List. She was A+ List in theatre and an A List celebrity.

She just didn't do many films.

Hot Cola said...

And analoging between humans / objects are completely dumb.

8====D KermitGosnellKnobjob said...

So she was a pedophile. It is cool that she was a lady, or this BI would be a huge scandal.

Claire said...

Why is it not OK? If it's consensual and no one is hurting anyone, who cares what they do?

Claire said...

There are many things wrong with your statement.

First of all, pedophiles are attracted to prepubescent children. I think it's gross for adults to sleep with teens, but that's not pedophilia.

Second, how do you know they weren't 18-year-old high school seniors?

Third, times have changed a lot back then. 13 year old girls could marry 50 year old men. Back then it wasn't as much of a taboo.

anna from savannah said...

Another one of my Southern Stories. True, of course. Tah-loo, as she was known by my grandmother, was a close, dear, revered family friend. My father told me stories about the times she came to the 'Plantation' in the 30s, 40s. The Plantation was on a private island my grandmother bought during Prohibition so she could run rum from Cuba. The older I got, the wilder the stories got. She was quite a gal! The most outrageous one was the time she came to Miz Mamie (my grands) Halloween Party. She backed into the living room completely naked from the waist down. She pops out her butt and screams, "Look, y'all! I came as a Parker House Roll!!!!' What a visual that is! Always loved this tormented woman. She was also incredibly kind and generous to her friends.

OKay said...

I'm with ya, @Claire, but high school is 14+. You still okay with that?

Kno Won Uno said...

That's a fantastic story! I'm so glad you posted it. Thanks!
It seems we don't make 'characters' anymore, just whiny former tweeners, selfie queens, housewives and teen moms. It's depressing. Helena Bonham Carter seems like she's a character, but we don't get to hear about it.

Kno Won Uno said...

I agree. She's a legend.

Penelope2 said...

So she slept with 150 people? She still doesn't hold a candle to most men in Hollywood or musicians on the road, who seem to screw that many groupies in a year. At least she enjoyed life.

Claire said...

No. I don't consider 14 year olds to be able to consent.

T said...

It's not really slut shaming if she's screwing children. Yes even high schoolers are children. If she were off banging people of age more power to her. Since it's children she's screwing then she deserves whatever she gets.

crystalmeh said...

Exactly!

crystalmeh said...

My point was that she got a blind about her behavior when men like Errol Flynn trolled high schools looking for prey.

Another point is that it never states exactly how old she was at this time and just how old her "victims" were either but yeah whatever

crystalmeh said...

Great story about a flawed lady that did what she wanted which is what we should all hope to say about ourselves in the end

T said...

Definitely sounds to me like she was not of high school age. There wouldn't be such an uproar if she were of high school age.

The men get dragged too. True not as much as the woman but they do also get dragged. Just look at Charlie Chaplin & Jerry Lee Louis. Both have been mercilessly dragged. Hell Charlie was kicked out of an entire country for his antics.

Ay said...

She got deported for screwing high school kids or did you not read.

Claire said...

It doesn't say how old they were. Many seniors are 18.

Ay said...

So why deport her?

sunny said...

What who does? Southerners? If you want pedophiles and incest Pakistan is the gold medal winner. But since they're not white you'd never ever dare to call them out. No virtue signaling and social cachet by crapping on brown people. Only th "wrong" kind of whites. Funny how all of you think you're the "good ones". Hope the browns and blacks know that! Oh that's right....they don't care. Good luck!

Nemo said...

People do often use the term pedophillia wrong, but hebephilia and ephebophilia aren't exactly noble either.

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