I recall a quote I picked up somewhere...Tallulah was seated in the congregation at St. Patrick's on a midnight mass on Christmas Eve. As the Bishop walked up the aisle towards the altar swinging a smoking incense burner, she said to the Bishop as he passed..." Oh Bishop, I love your dress...but your purse is on fire!".
Oh, my!........leave it to Tallulah with those incredible outbursts! She was a true original; an endearing soul you couldn't help but love. Rest in Heavenly peace, you little rascal you! w/much love, an adoring fan. ♥️💐
Your research was well done. To boil down a career that spanned decades to just under 40 minutes must have been difficult. Thank you for your efforts!😊
So pleased to see the sincere accolades for your work in the comments. It's clear that, yes people enjoy the content, but they overwhelmingly appreciate the very high quality of your work. Could not agree more. It's intelligent, professional and always fascinating. Great job, yet again, thank you.
A poignant recounting of what really was a sad life, falling into the trappings of darkness, yet that's what she believed she wanted. She reveled in being in the avant-garde and loved being a woman who was unmanageable. Thank you.
Lucy: “I’ve been thrown out of better places than this!” Tallulah: “You have never beeeeen in better places than this!” 🤣 I would love to say that to someone one day! Her voice was just something else. Tallulah and Kenneth Williams at dinner would be two of my wish list guests ❤️
Great work, thanks for doing this. Strange people don't give comments or likes to your videos. But I love your work and appreciate the effort. You are a great story teller. Shame people don't appreciate this on youtube. Hope you keep making them.
I haven't finished watching the video, but I, too, am impressed with the approach this channel takes while covering material we have seen often before. I am enjoying it all!!
Thank you, sometimes I think I make too many videos, and maybe I will just make fewer videos. As if people aren't interested I will just make them less, but I won't quit :)
Very well put together presentation. I had heard of Tallulah Bankhead but never knew anything about her. She had an interesting yet sad life. She was a beautiful woman. Thank you for this story now on to the story of Thelma Furness.
Great video on this incandescent performer! Tallulah was one of a kind; in her movies she always seemed ready to break out of her roles and right through the screen, as if the very film stock couldn't contain her. Thanks!
It's such a shame the films she was given didn't match her talent. I often wonder if she had taken the offer earlier in her career to become a film star what she would have done.
I enjoy your videos and beautiful narration. Also, I think Tallulah definitely suffered from an undiagnosed mental illness. This, coupled with her childhood traumas, left her unhinged. The mostly risque humor, promiscuity, excessive alcohol consumption and dugs--all these were the poor woman's efforts to deal with her intense emotional pain and suffering. RIP Tallulah. Love this name, btw. So musical and unique.
My girlfriend and I (both from Md)found Tallulah Bankhead's gravestone on a visit to Chestertown Maryland.. As history has it,...she had family in that area of MD,...so ultimately that is where she was buried,..at St Pauls Episcopal Church. Her gravestone is nothing out of the ordinary,...but,...it is there (in the first row) near the small lake. Certainly a unique find for this grand dame,...that her final resting place is in a picturesque yet unassuming church cemetery in Md.
L💖VE Tallulah!!🌹💋....i think it was her who told her date, to..."wait in the car", as she left,....never to return. Decades later, they met up again, at another party & her date asked her, what happened?, why hadn't she returned?, she just said to him...."I thought i told YOU, to wait in the car!"....typical Lulah🌹 response!. I just love her firey, fiesty, naughty girl personality!. Thanks for a great documentary!👍💋🌹🍾🥂🤸
Thank you so much for your moving narrations of these fabulous celebrities. La depth in which the stories are told is so evocative and earnest. I am so happy to have learned about such interesting people. 🙏🏻
I am so very appreciative for your research, quality work and narration and amazing docs you gift wrap for all. This is yet another absolute winner. Thank you!.
Thanks so much, I don't think people understand how much these great comments and support matter to a small channel and creator as I do all of this myself, so thank you
Tallulah appeared as herself in a Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour that first aired in 1957. It was wonderful to watch her play "Tallulah" with all the swagger and panache she could muster, with great comedic support from Lucille Ball and Vivian Vance. It's still one of the funniest things I've ever seen on TV.
@@davidblackburn3396 I wish I could have included everything but you are right she was brilliant thanks for mentioning it. 35 minutes is not a long enough video to tell her story
The episode of Lucy Desi Comedy Hour with Tallulah is easily one of the funniest episodes in that series. My girlfriend and I watch it regularly and even back to my childhood it has always been a go-to replay for me. Anyone reading this who hasn't had a chance to check it out yet...it's a must see! 😂
These are so well done. I am always so captivated. In the beginning of this one, I was like, eh, I don’t know who this is,but I was sucked in ,and it’s so good. Beautifully done.
She was filling her adult life with all the attention, love and passion, and excitement she lacked in childhood. She indulged and found out no one would stop her.
"Thank you, dahling........" for this marvelous outline on the incomparable Tallulah! Always and ever THE star, I see her twinkling every evening just after sunset. A very straight forward mini-bio that does the lady justice. I've always hoped that Hollywood would have awarded this legendary actress w/a much deserved, if postumous, Oscar. 🎭
Years ago I ready a couple of biographies about her, and remember one passage that I never forgot: A day away from Tallulah is like a month in the country. When she was young she used to to do cartwheels down sidewalks wearing no underwear. She was something else!
GREAT video! Didn’t she date J P Morgan briefly? He was immensely wealthy whose personal worth stood out amidst the Vanderbilts & Astors, but he was ugly with a huge disfigured nose. I heard that she remarked to a friend that she’d “gone downtown” with him (although much more directly). Her horrified friend could only ask “Why?” “Darling,” she replied, “anything to get away from his face!”
The summing uo rather glosses over the enormous pain she carried with her for a lifetime. On film, as Cukor said - her eyes had a dead, hooded look. A life of suffering, a public disintegration with moments of brilliance.
@@pipfox7834 I did quote him, but I am a small channel, it is difficult to do a 3 hour biography of a person, it simply won't get watched or shared. I'd love to do a full deep analysis into every part of a person's life. Sorry it disappointed you. In addition, I think viewers can make their own determination on the mental health of a subject, unless I have actual psychologists who met her and worked with her speaking of their experience, I feel it is not necessary to put my own opinions in the video. I feel people are smart enough to come to their own conclusions. I know it is popular to make judgments, and sure I could get more viewers going the sensationalized route as people would either criticize me or agree, but those are not the stories I want to tell. There are enough of those channels on YT. I let the story speak for itself, and the viewers decide.
When Bankhead Tunnel was completed people were allowed to walk through. My father walked but wouldn’t let my Mom accompany him as she was very pregnant with me. Thanks to your documentary I finally know all about the fabulous Tallulah. Very well done.👏👏👏❤️❤️❤️
This video is simply excellent. The narrator superb. I really enjoyed it and subscribed. I wish all the You Tube retrospectives were as well done. Thank you.
I've watched many of your videos. I'm a fan of documentaries. Really, really first rate work. Insightful, engaging and informative. I wish you had more. Your channel will blow up, just keep doing this amazing work!
Thank you so much. I love writing them and researching them but really my editing isn't great, so should the channel become successful the first thing I will do is hire an editor. I could then do 3 or 4 videos a week which would be great. I love doing these, and it means so much to hear such kind words.
@@MythicMindScape21 My friend who got really wealthy in real estate always said, hire out some of your work to others, you grow better, faster that way. But expect excellence from them. Keep at it!
Thank you so much, i hope in time the channel will be full of great and exciting videos. But we are just beginning. Means a lot to hear such kind words, as I am new to this.
The difference between your channel & most of the others, is that you don’t repeat information just to make videos longer. You’re very informative & interesting, without being redundant. It’s a win-win, for everyone. 🥳
@@theresaballou9401 I try not to repeat things as I want to create a narrative of the life. I like to tell these women's stories. My only regret is that sometimes I do not tell enough and edit too much out.
@@MythicMindScape21 Whatever you’re doing is great. I’m sure the restrictions on what you can, and can’t publish, makes it difficult. Don’t be so hard on yourself. I’m binge watching these & I usually don’t get caught up in drama, so in my eyes, you’re doing something right! 😁😁
Thank you for this kind video. It spite of her wit and fame, she had a terrible self-destructive demon she never conquered. I loved watching her, and loved that throaty voice.
She was without a doubt the best actress I have ever had the pleasure to watch. She was a genius of the acting craft. She knocked me for six, she was a genius.
Thank you for this video. I've loved Tallulah for so many years ago and last i checked there were so few good videos about her. This is one of the good ones.
You have a gentle & sincere voice. I was gripped & emotionally involved in the way you told her story, in a way that is like listening to a Ken Burns documentary. I could easily listen to a 2+ hour documentary by you. I can feel your genuineness in your research & discription of her life. I was deeply moved by this. Please continue your videos, they are so womderfully done. Do you have a patreon? You should start one. I would love to support you in longer form documentaries. Your work is wonderful. I look forward to watching more of your videos, i followed immediately!
That is one of the nicest comments I have received, being compared to Ken Burns in any form is unbelievable praise as I grew up watching everything he did. Really, I am humbled by your remark. I do have a patreon, and I will share it with you soon. I am getting it ready for September. I much prefer doing the long form to the short form, but I am still new to youtube, and am trying to see which people prefer, and which the algorithm shares. Thank you again, I will post it on the channel soon, and in this thread. Truly humbled by your praise. ❤
When once on a TWA flight the stewardess asked " Oh Ms Bankhead would you like some of our TWA coffee' she replied "no, but I'd love some of your TWA tea"
Her father, grandfather and uncle had prestigious political careers. Congress, Senate and Speaker of the House. Very powerful and affluent family, not unlike the Kennedys. Bankhead Highway stretches from Washington to California, being sure to pass through Jasper, AL.
7:03 My good friend Grandma Wayne introduced me to this quote many years ago. My father warned me to stay away from alcohol and fast boys. He never said anything about cocaine and fast girls
Wow. For sure I'll Like and Comment. I'm alread subscribed. I love your channel: interesting information without sensationalism, great production values. I've always wondered about Tallulah Bankhead, who was scandalous but who my Great Generation parents viewed with great affection. I had no idea that she was a raging alcoholic but it makes sense. Her name is still a symbol for outrageous, unapologetic, absolutely genuine behavior. There's never been another one- but that's what makes a star.
Love Tallulah, she went her own way and was great in Life Boat !!!! Just subscribed, you are an excellent narrator, hey just keep on going , what about Steve McQueen 😀 he has many fans out there and it will get you the notice you deserve, love from Britain 🇬🇧 😊
Thanks, great idea. I think he is an interesting study. Especially his early roles and the partnership with his first wife Neile Adams, who got the changes made to 'The Great Escape' as well as convincing him to star in 'The Thomas Crown Affair'. Tarantino talks a lot about her role and Steve McQueen in his book 'Cinema Speculation'. I am sure I will make a video on him sometime in the next several months, as he would be fun to cover. Thanks again.
My mother and I read the same Willa Cather books. I was a teenager and my mom in her forties. We both loved her works. I dare say we each had our own feelings because of the age and life experience differences. Find memories
Incredible and very distinctive is her christian name. To me, very Southern. She was wild, unbridled, spontaneous, impulsive and drank like a fish. She had an affair with the beautiful and melodic jazz singer, Billie Holiday yet denied it and was willing to sue Billie's biographer, William Dufy. She was very high handed with blacks if she thought they getting ubove themselves in her estimation. She was wildly promiscious with men and women. A loud braggart with remarkable acting skills. She was a law unto herself and one of a kind! There was only ONE Tallulah!🎉😂😂
On possible new subjects, Louise Brooks lived an interesting life. Her autobiography sheds an honest light on early Hollywood. Also the artist Dora Maar. Very interesting lady.
I' usually like to listen to mostly Men Narrators with nice toned voices' but You' (Mystic mind Scape) have a American Easy on the Ears Lovely toned Voice 👌✨🎶🎧
I think it sounds like she lived an authentic life as an actress. I also think it was sad. Glitz doesn't last. Perhaps fame does, but after you're gone, it's much kinder.
(Go to 2602.😅) Rest in peace Tallulah Godbless You. You disobeyed orders but you where one cool wild lady.your not forgotten Godbless you 🙏🕊🕊🕊🕊🦋🦋🦋🦋💖💖💖💖💖🙏🕊
Very good presentation. I look forward to seeing more of your videos. I never cared for Tallulah and now I know why. She was a train wreck. She had a very sad life because of poor life choices. Drugs, smoking, and drinking are never the answer. Sad.
Thanks for the comment. Her family was rather naive to leave a 17 year old girl at a new york hotel on her own, with film stars, producers, writers, and all the people she idolized.
Something else not mentioned was her love of baseball. In fact, she auditioned to be the game announcer for one of the NY teams. She was (supposedly) the best, but the team owner was afraid that fans wouldn't want to listen to a woman calling the games.
Yes there are so many things I left out; the unpaid taxes, the issue with the boys, though that is quite controversial, there is no confirmation that that did indeed occur, I could have also mentioned how she struggled to get a British Visa after that because of her behaviour. However, it is very difficult to confirm whether or not that action took place. Regardless as mentioned so many things I could have said including that, and it was in my original script which was 2 hours long. However as a small channel making a 2 hour video on her will get very bad view ratio and won't be shared in the youtube algorithm so, as such I have to cut my script and cut my script much to my own dismay more than anyone else's. The hope is one day I will have enough subscribers where I can make a 90 minute biography on these people. But now, it just won't work. It is why the comments section is great, so you and others can point out things i missed. ❤
@MythicMindScape21 I'm in Huntsville and, of course, have heard many scandalous accounts of Tallulah. I also lived in L.A. for awhile and one day, I was going down a street when I passed a young couple walking a very friendly pup. I crouched to pet the dog and asked her name. The couple was very... uppetty. They said that they named her after a famous British actress that nobody had ever heard of: Tallulah. Had they not been so pretentious, I might have responded differently. But, in my best Southern gutterese, I replied, "Y'all mean Bankhead? Well, Miss Tallulah wasn't British. She was from Huntsville, Alabama." They were stunned and questioned my statement. I told them all about her family home on the square and her family's involvement in Alabama politics. They were a bit confused and deflated as we parted. LoL
And BTW, you did an amazing job with this video. One of my favorite Tallulah stories: While filming Lifeboat... she wasn't wearing panties. MacWilliams, the cinematographer, told Hitchcock that because of the low camera angles... they could see up her dress. Hitchcock replied, "Well, that is a problem. But, which department should we go to in order to solve it: Hair, Wardrobe, or Makeup?"
The Ritz Hotel in Madrid was considered the most refined in Europe in the 1940s and 50s. It was the meeting place of European aristocracy and the famous. Then came Tallulah Bankhead with her scandalous and drunken behavior and made quite a few scenes in the hotel, the worst:at the entrance to the elevators were two tall ash trays filled with sand. In from partying comes Miss Bankhead who decided to relieve herself in an ashtray. The next morning they were invited to leave the premises at once and a ruling was passed that no actors were ever admitted again. True story.
She took her last breath mere moments before I took my first. Sometimes I think we crossed paths in the aether because I have many similar traits that she did. It's like her spirit dropped and spilled some of the contents of her purse and I picked them up and put them in mine!
My late best friend's grandmother was a childhood friend of Tallulah. When they became teens, my friend's grandmother was told that she could no longer associate with Tallulah because of the reputation Tallulah was getting around town.
I’m pretty sure she was sexually abused as a child and possible whole childhood bc she was surrounded by her dad and his drunk colleagues who forced her to do cartwheels for them…creepy. I’ve read so much about this woman, but the best is Robert Temple’s website article about his time knowing her. He acknowledges the sexual abuse.
She had quite the sad life. So sad. But she was a brilliant actress. It's like she was fighting inner demons her whole life. Now, hopefully, she is at peace.
Miss Bankhead happens to have been one of several parties unlikely to intersect who did indeed, in a situation itself surrounded by and filled with bizarre elements. If you'd been up late Tuesday night, May 14, 1968 and of a mind to watch TV, among your three (if you were VERY lucky and in a metropolitan region) choices would have been, yes, The Tonight Show--but, hey! ---Johnny was OFF that night; rather than let Ed McMahon shoulder it all, it looked like Joe Garagiola would sit at the desk-- would you have watched? Or turned in? Among the guests would be TALLULAH BANKHEAD, a decade and more into obscurity; hey, Doris, ya wanna see Tallulah ---whaaat? Tallulah BANKHEAD! ---with Joe Garagiola? What? Nah, Johnny's out tonight. Lemme see who else--- Over the weekend, JOHN LENNON and PAUL McCARTNEY had come to New York to talk up their taking things chest-close, called "Apple". Somebody somehow snagged them ---for Tuesday night ---without seeing Johnny would be off. This is already setting up interesting, if rickety: half the Beatles, in one of the first passes they'd made in front of live American cameras since ending (without ever announcing so) their live stage career--- in a surprise sit-down at the height of their "serious" period; and in the same circle ---are these bookends, or what? ---a capital-C Celebrity born barely a year from the 19th Century, an unsteady but charismatic trainwreck--- Ya wanna know how it went? So does everybody. Because, INCREDIBLY, the NBC Archives DID NOT PRESERVE THE PROGRAM. Thanks to a kind God, to fate, and to the coincidences of home-recording technologies having become practical only in the last thousand days or so, recordings do exist of PARTS of the program. Here and there around North America, aficionados of Miss Bankhead perhaps, of the Beatles, plain nerds and indeed many Garagiolites rolled not only audio but incredibly cumbersome video devices each at their own station, and caught scattered minutes in minutes-long fragments like so many foul balls; these are all there is, and over decades Beatles historians have pored over what got caught, interpreted muffled sound, have tried to extrapolate, have made written transcripts. Miss Bankhead did not come off well. She was undoubtedly blotzed. She did not seem to know who the Beatles were, or even who she was. But it was her and, in the pieces that can be seen (UA-cam has many) she was not out of character. It was not a remarkable bit from John or Paul; John was cautious and probably wired, Paul earnestly Paul, and Garagiola coulda been anybody. Anybody woulda been better, and this is not to knock him ---and amiable enough presenter over a number of years that followed whatever you may think of baseball, the night John, Paul and Tallulah came was not for Joe's star-reel either. The night seemed ordinary, i'm sure. There was another guest, by the way, maybe two, and the info's a available but i'm not reaching for it just now. Suffice to note that the public finish of Tallulah Bankhead came on a spring night in which she as The Old engaged two of The Future, in an unremarkable coffee-table setting. The ships passed without communicating. No full document survived, and before the year was out the great lady would meet the death she said she craved; not long at all after that, the Beatles would go separate ways, each indeed to visit at times with Johnny Carson but, oh, if only he'd been here! That might have been something, dahling.
Love Elaine Stritch, she did a "Showboat" rendition in late 1990's and was fabulous! Amazing dancer and actress and I miss her performances as she could do it all!
Orson Welles making comments about how bad Tallulah looked in her later years is hilarious considering he was morbidly obese at the end of his life and wasn't remotely attractive anymore.
You didn't mention that she got caught having affairs with a few school boys while in England, which was a big reason she left England. Basically, she had to leave.
Zelda and Scott saw her perform in London yes. Bankhead recounted that Zelda had once criticized her for "acting too outrageous," despite Zelda’s own reputation for unconventional behavior. Bankhead also claimed to have visited Zelda when she was in a psychiatric hospital; Zelda's biography doesn't speak much about Tallulah.
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I recall a quote I picked up somewhere...Tallulah was seated in the congregation at St. Patrick's on a midnight mass on Christmas Eve. As the Bishop walked up the aisle towards the altar swinging a smoking incense burner, she said to the Bishop as he passed..." Oh Bishop, I love your dress...but your purse is on fire!".
Oh, my!........leave it to Tallulah with those incredible outbursts! She was a true original; an endearing soul you couldn't help but love. Rest in Heavenly peace, you little rascal you! w/much love, an adoring fan. ♥️💐
@@barbarabonanno1879 ha ha hilarious- gotta love Tallula😂
Your research was well done. To boil down a career that spanned decades to just under 40 minutes must have been difficult. Thank you for your efforts!😊
Thanks, I appreciate that, she deserved a longer video, and my original script was 2 hours. But no one would watch 😂. It was painful cutting it down.
So pleased to see the sincere accolades for your work in the comments. It's clear that, yes people enjoy the content, but they overwhelmingly appreciate the very high quality of your work. Could not agree more. It's intelligent, professional and always fascinating. Great job, yet again, thank you.
It means so much, as I work alone from beginning to end on these, and to get likes and hear positive words is so valuable.
I love your narration & dedication
A poignant recounting of what really was a sad life, falling into the trappings of darkness, yet that's what she believed she wanted. She reveled in being in the avant-garde and loved being a woman who was unmanageable. Thank you.
So sad though, that for her last 30 years all she wanted to do was die. What you say is right.
@@MythicMindScape21😅
Fascinating woman… her episode on Lucy and Desi is a favorite of mine 🤩
Lucy: “I’ve been thrown out of better places than this!”
Tallulah: “You have never beeeeen in better places than this!” 🤣
I would love to say that to someone one day! Her voice was just something else.
Tallulah and Kenneth Williams at dinner would be two of my wish list guests ❤️
Great work, thanks for doing this. Strange people don't give comments or likes to your videos. But I love your work and appreciate the effort. You are a great story teller. Shame people don't appreciate this on youtube. Hope you keep making them.
I haven't finished watching the video, but I, too, am impressed with the approach this channel takes while covering material we have seen often before. I am enjoying it all!!
I agree. I love her content and always give her a thumbs up. 👍🏻
Thank you, sometimes I think I make too many videos, and maybe I will just make fewer videos. As if people aren't interested I will just make them less, but I won't quit :)
@@MythicMindScape21 Never, ever too many! 🙂
I just recently found your channel and am catching up watching all of your videos, so please continue making them. @@MythicMindScape21
Very well put together presentation. I had heard of Tallulah Bankhead but never knew anything about her. She had an interesting yet sad life. She was a beautiful woman. Thank you for this story now on to the story of Thelma Furness.
Glad you enjoyed it!
A blazing constellation that crashed hard. RIP Tallulah. Beautiful name.
That's a lovely way of putting it...😢
Great video on this incandescent performer! Tallulah was one of a kind; in her movies she always seemed ready to break out of her roles and right through the screen, as if the very film stock couldn't contain her. Thanks!
It's such a shame the films she was given didn't match her talent. I often wonder if she had taken the offer earlier in her career to become a film star what she would have done.
I enjoy your videos and beautiful narration. Also, I think Tallulah definitely suffered from an undiagnosed mental illness. This, coupled with her childhood traumas, left her unhinged. The mostly risque humor, promiscuity, excessive alcohol consumption and dugs--all these were the poor woman's efforts to deal with her intense emotional pain and suffering. RIP Tallulah. Love this name, btw. So musical and unique.
Yes, she found it impossible to really get close to anyone, must have been hard having her both linked with her mother's death
Could you please elaborate on what was this unhinged actress 's " intense emotional pain and suffering" that were not of her own doing ?
@@marinaperkins9648Everyone is a psychiatrist so they think
Just saw “Lifeboat” on TCM. I definitely understand her appeal.
She was great in that.
Yes, I was very impressed by her in that, as well.
You have a beautifil voice. Always wanted to learn more about her!
Thank you
Excellent and illuminating. Also your narration is pitch perfect
Thank you so much.
My girlfriend and I (both from Md)found Tallulah Bankhead's gravestone on a visit to Chestertown Maryland.. As history has it,...she had family in that area of MD,...so ultimately that is where she was buried,..at St Pauls Episcopal Church. Her gravestone is nothing out of the ordinary,...but,...it is there (in the first row) near the small lake. Certainly a unique find for this grand dame,...that her final resting place is in a picturesque yet unassuming church cemetery in Md.
Thanks for the information.
Being from another country I wonder what Md is
Maryland.@@madeleine9907
@@madeleine9907 I think it's Maryland, in the USA.
@@las8790 Yes
A very,very good presentation on Ms.Bankhead.Thank you,for sharing it.
Thanks for liking
@@MythicMindScape21 You are welcome.I wish you a Happy,Safe holiday.🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
@@NancySanders-om4ic Same to you, hope you had a great 4th.
L💖VE Tallulah!!🌹💋....i think it was her who told her date, to..."wait in the car", as she left,....never to return. Decades later, they met up again, at another party & her date asked her, what happened?, why hadn't she returned?, she just said to him...."I thought i told YOU, to wait in the car!"....typical Lulah🌹 response!. I just love her firey, fiesty, naughty girl personality!. Thanks for a great documentary!👍💋🌹🍾🥂🤸
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Thank you so much for your moving narrations of these fabulous celebrities. La depth in which the stories are told is so evocative and earnest. I am so happy to have learned about such interesting people. 🙏🏻
Thanks again for listening
I am so very appreciative for your research, quality work and narration and amazing docs you gift wrap for all. This is yet another absolute winner. Thank you!.
Thanks so much, I don't think people understand how much these great comments and support matter to a small channel and creator as I do all of this myself, so thank you
Very intelligent and articulate video. Well researched. Thank you so much.
Thank you
Tallulah appeared as herself in a Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour that first aired in 1957. It was wonderful to watch her play "Tallulah" with all the swagger and panache she could muster, with great comedic support from Lucille Ball and Vivian Vance. It's still one of the funniest things I've ever seen on TV.
@@davidblackburn3396 I wish I could have included everything but you are right she was brilliant thanks for mentioning it. 35 minutes is not a long enough video to tell her story
@@MythicMindScape21 Your video is an excellent overview. You did a great job.
The episode of Lucy Desi Comedy Hour with Tallulah is easily one of the funniest episodes in that series. My girlfriend and I watch it regularly and even back to my childhood it has always been a go-to replay for me.
Anyone reading this who hasn't had a chance to check it out yet...it's a must see! 😂
These are so well done. I am always so captivated. In the beginning of this one, I was like, eh, I don’t know who this is,but I was sucked in ,and it’s so good. Beautifully done.
@@frosting6439 Agreed💯
Thank you so much for your hard work doing a great documentary. Your research is very much appreciated. You are a great narrator. THANKS!
Thank you so much.
@@MythicMindScape21Also, wonderful to have an actual narrator instead of an AI voice. Yes, indeed, very well narrated.❤
She was filling her adult life with all the attention, love and passion, and excitement she lacked in childhood. She indulged and found out no one would stop her.
Or could!
Wonderfully authentic! 👍👏✌️
Glad you liked it, let me know your thoughts on Margaret when I publish her, as she is the longest I have done.
Im glad I watched this was very interesting and with a great voice narrating made it easy to listen. Thanks .
Thank you.
Thanks to you, I now love Tallulah!
"Thank you, dahling........" for this marvelous outline on the incomparable Tallulah! Always and ever THE star, I see her twinkling every evening just after sunset. A very straight forward mini-bio that does the lady justice. I've always hoped that Hollywood would have awarded this legendary actress w/a much deserved, if postumous, Oscar. 🎭
Years ago I ready a couple of biographies about her, and remember one passage that I never forgot: A day away from Tallulah is like a month in the country. When she was young she used to to do cartwheels down sidewalks wearing no underwear. She was something else!
She would still do it when she was older as well. 😂 The audience and people in hotels began to complain.
GREAT video! Didn’t she date J P Morgan briefly? He was immensely wealthy whose personal worth stood out amidst the Vanderbilts & Astors, but he was ugly with a huge disfigured nose. I heard that she remarked to a friend that she’d “gone downtown” with him (although much more directly). Her horrified friend could only ask “Why?” “Darling,” she replied, “anything to get away from his face!”
The summing uo rather glosses over the enormous pain she carried with her for a lifetime. On film, as Cukor said - her eyes had a dead, hooded look. A life of suffering, a public disintegration with moments of brilliance.
@@pipfox7834 I did quote him, but I am a small channel, it is difficult to do a 3 hour biography of a person, it simply won't get watched or shared. I'd love to do a full deep analysis into every part of a person's life. Sorry it disappointed you. In addition, I think viewers can make their own determination on the mental health of a subject, unless I have actual psychologists who met her and worked with her speaking of their experience, I feel it is not necessary to put my own opinions in the video. I feel people are smart enough to come to their own conclusions. I know it is popular to make judgments, and sure I could get more viewers going the sensationalized route as people would either criticize me or agree, but those are not the stories I want to tell. There are enough of those channels on YT. I let the story speak for itself, and the viewers decide.
@@MythicMindScape21perhaps you could break up a l3hr documentary into several segments- make it a series ❤❤❤
Thank you for this video!!!!!!!!
A great documentary. What a fascinating woman.
The Bankhead Tunnel in my hometown of Mobile, Alabama is named after her father who was an Alabama senator.
Her father, William Bankhead, was also the 42nd Speaker of the House.
When Bankhead Tunnel was completed people were allowed to walk through. My father walked but wouldn’t let my Mom accompany him as she was very pregnant with me. Thanks to your documentary I finally know all about the fabulous Tallulah. Very well done.👏👏👏❤️❤️❤️
❤😊I love ur content and ur presentation is flawless🎉Thsnks for sll the hard work it is very evident🎉❤😊
Thank you . ❤
This video is simply excellent. The narrator superb. I really enjoyed it and subscribed. I wish all the You Tube retrospectives were as well done. Thank you.
I've watched many of your videos. I'm a fan of documentaries. Really, really first rate work. Insightful, engaging and informative. I wish you had more. Your channel will blow up, just keep doing this amazing work!
Thank you so much. I love writing them and researching them but really my editing isn't great, so should the channel become successful the first thing I will do is hire an editor. I could then do 3 or 4 videos a week which would be great. I love doing these, and it means so much to hear such kind words.
@@MythicMindScape21 My friend who got really wealthy in real estate always said, hire out some of your work to others, you grow better, faster that way. But expect excellence from them. Keep at it!
You have a great speaking voice. I really appreciate that, as it makes your wonderful story telling so easy to listen to ❤
Thank you so much, i hope in time the channel will be full of great and exciting videos. But we are just beginning. Means a lot to hear such kind words, as I am new to this.
Fabulous ❤
Just subbed. I like the way you tell a story. Straight to the facts and not leaving things out to soften the truth. Thank you.
Thanks for watching.
That was really interesting. I wouldn’t even know about most of the people, if it wasn’t for your channel. Keep em comin! 🙏
I appreciate that! More to come unless UA-cam bans me )
Oh no! That would be horrible! 🫣
The difference between your channel & most of the others, is that you don’t repeat information just to make videos longer. You’re very informative & interesting, without being redundant. It’s a win-win, for everyone. 🥳
@@theresaballou9401 I try not to repeat things as I want to create a narrative of the life. I like to tell these women's stories. My only regret is that sometimes I do not tell enough and edit too much out.
@@MythicMindScape21 Whatever you’re doing is great. I’m sure the restrictions on what you can, and can’t publish, makes it difficult. Don’t be so hard on yourself. I’m binge watching these & I usually don’t get caught up in drama, so in my eyes, you’re doing something right! 😁😁
Thank you for this kind video. It spite of her wit and fame, she had a terrible self-destructive demon she never conquered. I loved watching her, and loved that throaty voice.
Yes, her way of talking was definitely unique.
Rest in Peace Miss Bankhead 🙏
Thank you for another wonderful video! You are a natural, as a narrator!
Thank you too!
She was without a doubt the best actress I have ever had the pleasure to watch. She was a genius of the acting craft. She knocked me for six, she was a genius.
Thank you for this video. I've loved Tallulah for so many years ago and last i checked there were so few good videos about her. This is one of the good ones.
Excellent video and music.
I learn so much
Thank you. Well done.
I knew her name but nothing more. Interesting life.
You have a gentle & sincere voice. I was gripped & emotionally involved in the way you told her story, in a way that is like listening to a Ken Burns documentary. I could easily listen to a 2+ hour documentary by you. I can feel your genuineness in your research & discription of her life. I was deeply moved by this. Please continue your videos, they are so womderfully done. Do you have a patreon? You should start one. I would love to support you in longer form documentaries. Your work is wonderful. I look forward to watching more of your videos, i followed immediately!
That is one of the nicest comments I have received, being compared to Ken Burns in any form is unbelievable praise as I grew up watching everything he did. Really, I am humbled by your remark. I do have a patreon, and I will share it with you soon. I am getting it ready for September. I much prefer doing the long form to the short form, but I am still new to youtube, and am trying to see which people prefer, and which the algorithm shares. Thank you again, I will post it on the channel soon, and in this thread. Truly humbled by your praise. ❤
When once on a TWA flight the stewardess asked " Oh Ms Bankhead would you like some of our TWA coffee' she replied "no, but I'd love some of your TWA tea"
Her father, grandfather and uncle had prestigious political careers. Congress, Senate and Speaker of the House. Very powerful and affluent family, not unlike the Kennedys. Bankhead Highway stretches from Washington to California, being sure to pass through Jasper, AL.
I think this is so empowering, her stepmom truly helped her thrive. Shes amazing.
I agree, no one really mentions her step mom at all.
This was really riveting
Thanks for this video
Thank you
Excellent writing in this video!
Thank you.
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My good friend Grandma Wayne introduced me to this quote many years ago.
My father warned me to stay away from alcohol and fast boys. He never said anything about cocaine and fast girls
Bankhead HWY. My beloved kitty Tallulah Bankhead, thanks you for his name.
Very informative and well researched.
Thank you
Wow. For sure I'll Like and Comment. I'm alread subscribed. I love your channel: interesting information without sensationalism, great production values. I've always wondered about Tallulah Bankhead, who was scandalous but who my Great Generation parents viewed with great affection. I had no idea that she was a raging alcoholic but it makes sense. Her name is still a symbol for outrageous, unapologetic, absolutely genuine behavior. There's never been another one- but that's what makes a star.
Great Comment. Thanks for the kind words.
I was lucky to get her memoirs and a full biography of her she was first Lady of the theatre.
Very well done documentary!
"Daddy warned me about men and alcohol, but he never warned me about women and cocaine." LOL..
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Great video!!
Thanks you.
Love Tallulah, she went her own way and was great in Life Boat !!!! Just subscribed, you are an excellent narrator, hey just keep on going , what about Steve McQueen 😀 he has many fans out there and it will get you the notice you deserve, love from Britain 🇬🇧 😊
Thanks, great idea. I think he is an interesting study. Especially his early roles and the partnership with his first wife Neile Adams, who got the changes made to 'The Great Escape' as well as convincing him to star in 'The Thomas Crown Affair'. Tarantino talks a lot about her role and Steve McQueen in his book 'Cinema Speculation'. I am sure I will make a video on him sometime in the next several months, as he would be fun to cover. Thanks again.
Loved the content and really loved the commentary.
Subscribed 2 minutes in 👏👏👏🇬🇧
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Thank you for an interesting but sad story. I love biographies. We have choices in life, I don't think she made good ones.
Nobody goes through life without making mistakes.....
@@geraldinekelly8447 ...and she was surrounded by decadent, rich, and powerful people who encouraged her to make them.
My mother and I read the same Willa Cather books. I was a teenager and my mom in her forties. We both loved her works. I dare say we each had our own feelings because of the age and life experience differences. Find memories
Wonderful video ❤
Thank you 🤗
What a Woman!!! Gonna name my new little female kitten after her🌟🌟🌟
Incredible and very distinctive is her christian name.
To me, very Southern.
She was wild, unbridled, spontaneous, impulsive and drank like a fish.
She had an affair with the beautiful and melodic jazz singer, Billie Holiday yet denied it and was willing to sue Billie's biographer, William Dufy.
She was very high handed with blacks if she thought they getting ubove themselves in her estimation.
She was wildly promiscious with men and women.
A loud braggart with remarkable acting skills.
She was a law unto herself and one of a kind!
There was only ONE Tallulah!🎉😂😂
Her name is Indigenous. Not Christian.
On possible new subjects, Louise Brooks lived an interesting life. Her autobiography sheds an honest light on early Hollywood.
Also the artist Dora Maar. Very interesting lady.
Great ideas, I added them to the list. Hopefully we will cover them in Autumn or Early winter, keep your ideas coming.
Love her in Lifeboat. “My bracelet!!!”
I have never seen her in a movie, neither on tv. I would like to see one of her movies.
I' usually like to listen to mostly Men Narrators with nice toned voices' but You' (Mystic mind Scape) have a American Easy on the Ears Lovely toned Voice 👌✨🎶🎧
Thank you
I think it sounds like she lived an authentic life as an actress. I also think it was sad. Glitz doesn't last. Perhaps fame does, but after you're gone, it's much kinder.
(Go to 2602.😅) Rest in peace Tallulah Godbless You. You disobeyed orders but you where one cool wild lady.your not forgotten Godbless you 🙏🕊🕊🕊🕊🦋🦋🦋🦋💖💖💖💖💖🙏🕊
Thankyou..I really enjoyed this story🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺
Love Lifeboat, great movie 💜
I knew only that "Margot" in All about Eve was based on Tallulah. Knowing all this much more makes her endearing as hell
Very good presentation. I look forward to seeing more of your videos. I never cared for Tallulah and now I know why. She was a train wreck. She had a very sad life because of poor life choices. Drugs, smoking, and drinking are never the answer. Sad.
Thanks for the comment. Her family was rather naive to leave a 17 year old girl at a new york hotel on her own, with film stars, producers, writers, and all the people she idolized.
Something else not mentioned was her love of baseball. In fact, she auditioned to be the game announcer for one of the NY teams. She was (supposedly) the best, but the team owner was afraid that fans wouldn't want to listen to a woman calling the games.
Yes there are so many things I left out; the unpaid taxes, the issue with the boys, though that is quite controversial, there is no confirmation that that did indeed occur, I could have also mentioned how she struggled to get a British Visa after that because of her behaviour. However, it is very difficult to confirm whether or not that action took place. Regardless as mentioned so many things I could have said including that, and it was in my original script which was 2 hours long. However as a small channel making a 2 hour video on her will get very bad view ratio and won't be shared in the youtube algorithm so, as such I have to cut my script and cut my script much to my own dismay more than anyone else's. The hope is one day I will have enough subscribers where I can make a 90 minute biography on these people. But now, it just won't work. It is why the comments section is great, so you and others can point out things i missed. ❤
@MythicMindScape21 I'm in Huntsville and, of course, have heard many scandalous accounts of Tallulah. I also lived in L.A. for awhile and one day, I was going down a street when I passed a young couple walking a very friendly pup. I crouched to pet the dog and asked her name.
The couple was very... uppetty. They said that they named her after a famous British actress that nobody had ever heard of: Tallulah.
Had they not been so pretentious, I might have responded differently. But, in my best Southern gutterese, I replied, "Y'all mean Bankhead? Well, Miss Tallulah wasn't British. She was from Huntsville, Alabama."
They were stunned and questioned my statement. I told them all about her family home on the square and her family's involvement in Alabama politics.
They were a bit confused and deflated as we parted. LoL
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And BTW, you did an amazing job with this video.
One of my favorite Tallulah stories: While filming Lifeboat... she wasn't wearing panties. MacWilliams, the cinematographer, told Hitchcock that because of the low camera angles... they could see up her dress.
Hitchcock replied, "Well, that is a problem. But, which department should we go to in order to solve it: Hair, Wardrobe, or Makeup?"
Great story. Thanks 😂
Her dad played on Alabama's first football team in 1892. Roll Tide!
Didn't know that, thanks.
The Ritz Hotel in Madrid was considered the most refined in Europe in the 1940s and 50s. It was the meeting place of European aristocracy and the famous. Then came Tallulah Bankhead with her scandalous and drunken behavior and made quite a few scenes in the hotel, the worst:at the entrance to the elevators were two tall ash trays filled with sand. In from partying comes Miss Bankhead who decided to relieve herself in an ashtray. The next morning they were invited to leave the premises at once and a ruling was passed that no actors were ever admitted again. True story.
Wow, what a story. Thanks for sharing.
She took her last breath mere moments before I took my first. Sometimes I think we crossed paths in the aether because I have many similar traits that she did. It's like her spirit dropped and spilled some of the contents of her purse and I picked them up and put them in mine!
You write in a nice poetic style .
@@MythicMindScape21 Thank you!
There will NEVER be another TALLULAH!!!!!!
My late best friend's grandmother was a childhood friend of Tallulah. When they became teens, my friend's grandmother was told that she could no longer associate with Tallulah because of the reputation Tallulah was getting around town.
I’m pretty sure she was sexually abused as a child and possible whole childhood bc she was surrounded by her dad and his drunk colleagues who forced her to do cartwheels for them…creepy. I’ve read so much about this woman, but the best is Robert Temple’s website article about his time knowing her. He acknowledges the sexual abuse.
Childhood trauma. Says it all.
Great tutorial thank you ( The background TV or Radio was a bit annoying though.)
She was really funny 😂😂
I'm a Lesbian. WHAT DO YOU DO? OMG Classic!😂❤
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So sad...
She had quite the sad life. So sad. But she was a brilliant actress. It's like she was fighting inner demons her whole life. Now, hopefully, she is at peace.
Miss Bankhead happens to have been one of several parties unlikely to intersect who did indeed, in a situation itself surrounded by and filled with bizarre elements.
If you'd been up late Tuesday night, May 14, 1968 and of a mind to watch TV, among your three (if you were VERY lucky and in a metropolitan region) choices would have been, yes, The Tonight Show--but, hey! ---Johnny was OFF that night; rather than let Ed McMahon shoulder it all, it looked like Joe Garagiola would sit at the desk-- would you have watched? Or turned in?
Among the guests would be TALLULAH BANKHEAD, a decade and more into obscurity; hey, Doris, ya wanna see Tallulah ---whaaat? Tallulah BANKHEAD! ---with Joe Garagiola? What? Nah, Johnny's out tonight. Lemme see who else---
Over the weekend, JOHN LENNON and PAUL McCARTNEY had come to New York to talk up their taking things chest-close, called "Apple". Somebody somehow snagged them ---for Tuesday night ---without seeing Johnny would be off.
This is already setting up interesting, if rickety: half the Beatles, in one of the first passes they'd made in front of live American cameras since ending (without ever announcing so) their live stage career--- in a surprise sit-down at the height of their "serious" period; and in the same circle ---are these bookends, or what? ---a capital-C Celebrity born barely a year from the 19th Century, an unsteady but charismatic trainwreck---
Ya wanna know how it went?
So does everybody. Because, INCREDIBLY, the NBC Archives DID NOT PRESERVE THE PROGRAM.
Thanks to a kind God, to fate, and to the coincidences of home-recording technologies having become practical only in the last thousand days or so, recordings do exist of PARTS of the program. Here and there around North America, aficionados of Miss Bankhead perhaps, of the Beatles, plain nerds and indeed many Garagiolites rolled not only audio but incredibly cumbersome video devices each at their own station, and caught scattered minutes in minutes-long fragments like so many foul balls; these are all there is, and over decades Beatles historians have pored over what got caught, interpreted muffled sound, have tried to extrapolate, have made written transcripts.
Miss Bankhead did not come off well. She was undoubtedly blotzed. She did not seem to know who the Beatles were, or even who she was. But it was her and, in the pieces that can be seen (UA-cam has many) she was not out of character.
It was not a remarkable bit from John or Paul; John was cautious and probably wired, Paul earnestly Paul, and Garagiola coulda been anybody. Anybody woulda been better, and this is not to knock him ---and amiable enough presenter over a number of years that followed whatever you may think of baseball, the night John, Paul and Tallulah came was not for Joe's star-reel either.
The night seemed ordinary, i'm sure. There was another guest, by the way, maybe two, and the info's a available but i'm not reaching for it just now.
Suffice to note that the public finish of Tallulah Bankhead came on a spring night in which she as The Old engaged two of The Future, in an unremarkable coffee-table setting. The ships passed without communicating. No full document survived, and before the year was out the great lady would meet the death she said she craved; not long at all after that, the Beatles would go separate ways, each indeed to visit at times with Johnny Carson but, oh, if only he'd been here!
That might have been something, dahling.
What a great story. Thank you
Perhaps her passing is too recent, but how about Elaine Stritch?
Great idea.
Love Elaine Stritch, she did a "Showboat" rendition in late 1990's and was fabulous! Amazing dancer and actress and I miss her performances as she could do it all!
Orson Welles making comments about how bad Tallulah looked in her later years is hilarious considering he was morbidly obese at the end of his life and wasn't remotely attractive anymore.
It is a bit of pot calling the kettle...
Always find Tallulah interesting since I saw her in Lifeboat...
Amazing woman!
You didn't mention that she got caught having affairs with a few school boys while in England, which was a big reason she left England. Basically, she had to leave.
I just realized Zelda Sayre is Zelda Fitagerald. What exciting tumultuous lives they both led. Wonder if they kept in touch.....?
Zelda and Scott saw her perform in London yes. Bankhead recounted that Zelda had once criticized her for "acting too outrageous," despite Zelda’s own reputation for unconventional behavior. Bankhead also claimed to have visited Zelda when she was in a psychiatric hospital; Zelda's biography doesn't speak much about Tallulah.
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Garbo had the greatest beauty to be seen in movies and her eyes mesmerized audiences Tallulah a loose cannon .