Tallulah Bankhead--Hostess With the Mostes', Drop That Name, 1966 TV
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- Tallulah Bankhead sings "The Hostess With the Mostes' on the Ball" from "Call Me Madam" and "Drop That Name" from "Bells Are Ringing" in this 1966 TV appearance with Andy Williams.
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Bankhead was an original ------ never another like her. She was sometimes outrageous, frequently very funny, endearing, highly intelligent ------------ and one of the greatest actresses ever to grace a stage. She's immortal.
Well said and well put !! :-)
She had a radio show in the early 1950's. I think she was at her humorous best with it.
I grew up in and still live in Montgomery, AL. Stories about her antics growing up are still legend.
Tallulah was a scream. She was always full of one liners. Loved her! 😲
her wit was genius. It DOES take true genius to retaliate a comeback line...its genius.
Ah, the divine Tallulah. What a treat seeing her in such sparkling form, especially considering her health was extremely rocky at this point in her life. She really was a completely unique personality (and a damn fine actress in her day). Thank you for posting.
Nice to see this clip with the kind of musical numbers that were typical of the variety shows. Who knew that like the westerns they'd be gone and replaced by housewives.
"We're really good friends. Well, not really good friends we just know too much about each other" Love it.
The whole thing was so expertly worked around Tallulah's very limit musical ability and it's great!
what a great clip -----When eccentricity was an art
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Like no one before or since. Those theatrical tones are unmistakable. I only wish she had appeared in more films, she picked up where Jeanne Eagle's left off as a truly gifted stage actress and film star.
She couldn't a venereal diseases was acting up
What an actress, what a voice, what style. Didn't really care what other people thought, totally independent. Also great on her radio show called The Big Show, sadly only 2 seasons because it was expensive to run but it was loads of laughs and lots of stars.
"I tell you cocaine isn’t habit-forming and I know because I’ve been taking it for years."- Tallulah
Her demons both made her who she was and dragged her into her grave. Life was a cabaret for Ms Bankhead and she didnt suffer fools or sound advise. RIP Ms.
Name dropping Sid Caesar was there at the end. Miss Bankhead is the female John Barrymore! What a trip! thank you
Tallula was coming to the end of her life here but I think she was fantastic it shows her sense of humour, and class , at 66 she looked good but emphysema was waiting round the corner for her , tragic , !! one of our best theatre actresses !
The last thing she did was the Black Widow on the Batman series. She was very ill but when she went on she inspired everyone and dominated every scene.
i had read somewhere that she had smoked upwards of 150 cigarettes a day.
Rob Mastro I don’t doubt that.... what about alcoholism?
@@dougr.2398 She died a few years later brought on by pneumonia. Combine emphysema with it, and years of heavy drinking she was just used up. Sad, the world could have had another ten years of her dynamic personality.
@@baritonebynight thanks to her I became a Milkaholic. yes DAHLING !
Only saw her once in person but, oh what an experience... I was a teen and was starstruck.
Did she call you "dahling" ?? :-)
Jubal Calif yes she did. She was with her best friend Estelle Winwood.
@@allancuseo7431 Wow ! What a story ! I definitely recall eccentric actress Estelle Winwood ! Thanks for sharing your marvelous memory with us, Allan !! :-)
Jubal Calif thanks. I’ve had a blessed life
@@allancuseo7431 You're of course quite welcome ! :-)
"I love intellectual men, they know everything... and suspect nothing."
Only two years from her death, charming and full of life. She was here for a good time, not a long time from the beginning.
What a great clip with Tallulah at her finest
I agree 100 per cent !!
Amazing to say the least! This is from 'The Andy Williams Show', aired on May 2, 1966 on NBC.
Originally broadcast in 'Living Color' and (RCA)Hi-Fidelity Sound- this is from a B & W copy. Besides Tallulah, Andy's other guests on the show were Sid Ceasar and The Beach Boys! What a production for a weekly variety show from NBC's Burbank Studios- Tallulah looks sensational, and shows her versatility here even though she wasn't a singer or dancer. The production has been amazingly staged for her- and being the pro she was- takes full advantage of it to showcase her one-of-a-kind originality! I wonder if Tallulah's gown is by Travilla(?) It looks amazingly similar to a gown he originally designed for Judy Garland- who was to appear in the film 'Valley Of The Dolls'
which was released in 1967. Judy left the film, and Susan Hayward replaced her. Susan then wore the similar gown in the film.
It's great to find UA-cam clips of the one and only Tallulah. She didn't make many movies so it's great to see some of her TV appearances. Her best was "The Celebrity Next Door" in 1958 on The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour". You can see what a gifted and skilled comedienne Tallulah was. Tallulah was a true Aquarian. Way ahead of her time. She lived life her own way and was a free spirit.
When America was great.
Wow-- what a wonderful clip. Two of my favorite Broadway numbers too/ "Hostess With The Mostess" from Call Me Madam and " Drop That Name" from Bells Are Ringing.
Lyrics were changed somewhat for this production. Ta;llulah looked "divine" and displayed some of her best Tallulahisms. The variety shows at the time , the 1960s, , often had beautiful, classy production numbers., as demonstrated here. This is when TV was still geared towards adults.
Richard Sternberger notice it’s all white :(
Time of class and style !
This was WONDERFUL...they all dressed so LOVELY...!! Andy Williams...Tallulah ..so awesome....i think ytube letting whole new generation enjoy her........also heard of her .of coarse...but just love her all anew....her movies & these neat clips.....so priceless.....
She's adorable here.
Splendid!
This delightful!,,,
Oh, dahling
Later in my life watched her on reruns I thought she had a wonderful sense of humor kind of funny at times in her movies that voice no other could be such a big star like her.
As I do when I take off my hat, you make a good point !! :-)
It’s so hard to believe how she looked just 10 years earlier.
Gotta love that voice! This is divine. Thank you so much! Those were the days!
LOVE Tallulah!!!! Thanks for posting this treasure. Didn't even know it existed. Recently saw the play "Looped" about a latter day recording session for "Die, Die, My Darling". It was great, but wish Tallulah could have played herself.
MARAVILLOSA TALLULAH !!!!!!
This is pure joy.
I'm a now happily married guy but, when I was a kid I grew up with my grandmother, separately from my siblings and step siblings and my dad's mother....I was on a kid's show called romper room in boston it kind of made me a little local celebrity because the local evening news would replay footage from the show for local entertainment highlights....I asked my grandmother why i lived with her and went to work with her after the studio and school to one of the kennedy family members...she said well, when you were born you came out talking like you were Tallulah Bankhead.....of course this was one of the reasons I made the local news in the 70s....I would take over class from miss jean the teacher on this kids show and say my other grandmother hated me because she said I was a tallulah bankhead...now I want to teach you about wuthering heights and the moors. I had no idea what the hell moors were, but my grandmother was born into a noble family and when her dad died the fathers family members (not the kennedys they are still my loyal family but Joan doesn't get out much anymore) kicked the mum and kids to the curbl...it was her and me while her only son was recovering from vietnam war...I was extremely blond with this theatrical deep voice for a 4 year old....my siblings and step siblings all have dark hair...and couldn't hold a tune or be on a soap opera or 90210 and they never put themselves through USC phd program for social science.....now I totally get it. and it heals my sadness having recently lost both my mum and nan my one sister that loved me for being her half brother instead of a blond tv dumb jock that got paid way too much money for speaking words and using my memory....its all a joke.
Oh my gosh....i think i saw this when i was REAL little just remember Tallulah sayin "Rin-tin-tin"....oh my gosh....
She was a original, loved her
The one and only !!
Just heard her chat with Roy plumley didn't know much of tullulah she seems a darling.
This is glorious!! Thank you 🙌💜🌈💜
Wonderful!
Something tells me that this was filmed on the old set for Sunset Blvd. The staircase and the living room -- I have to do some homework on this.
No one else like Tallu.
Goddess!!!
Wow. She was really slurring those words by then but stayed on the ball!
Was she drunk, or was it her failing health?
Reportedly in her last days, Tallulah practicality fell into a NYC taxi, cigarette in hand wrapped in mink. Giving the driver address, he said You're Tallulah Bankhead. Her response, Frankly My Dahling, I'm what's LEFT of Tallulah Bankhead. Never one to miss a grand opening 😮 😉 or a mahvelous exit!
Bless you!
She died only a year later , at 66 , so sad.
With the recent passing of Gina Lollobrigida I think this leaves Carol Burnett and Shirley MacLaine as the only celebrities mentioned in the 'drop that name' song who are still with us.
And Anna May Wong had already been dead for five years. Apparently no one much noticed.
Isn’t she just divine!
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"......as a matter of fact, we're not really very good friends...... we just know too much about each other"
Dahlingggg!! 🎶🎤❤️
I wish the resolution would have been better.
I believe this is from a T V Andy Williams Show. I was in High School 1964 ish
I would have hated to have missed the 60’s
Looks like Talloo needed that banister to hold onto !
That Milkaholic 😁😂🤣😃😄😅
Rod Labbe she was pretty frail her last couple years.
That's my name sake
I'm still trying to wrap my brain around Tallulah dating Hattie ("Mammy") McDaniel.
She is fun to watch and all that and perfect comedic timing. She was from Huntsville ,Alabama though....so where is that accent from? Its like Madonna is from Michigan, but now has an English accent...
Great clip.but odd its not in color mostly all TV shows went to color broadcasts in 1966 '
The original broadcast was color. THis is a black and white copy.
Alan Eichler where can I find the one with colour?
🎵 Hello Dahlings 🎶 it's so nice to be here where I belong! 🎵 As the hostess with the Mostess (in SO many ways) and TWO BALLS. Now get me COCKTAIL 🍸 😉. Eat your heart out ETHEL! 😮. 💋 Toodle oo to you for Aunt TALLU. 💐🍸 💐 🍸 🍹 💐.
She died 2 years later
Anybody notice Pat Sajak as one of the dancers? And, is that Jack Jones and John Davidson?
I have a high quality copy of this wonderful clip
Tom Yaz would love to see that!
John Boys me too!
I wanna see it!
Bárb it’s on my Facebook
Filmed two years before her death.
I am afraid Tallulah Bankhead was not singing in this clip. She was merely saying her lines.
Today it would be Caitlyn Jenner
Tallulah was adorable and modern for that time. she certainly would be a marvelous mother if... I should be happy to see in theater "THE LITTLE FOXES" at that time I was not even yet born.
B. DAVIS was good in the movie. How T. B. would be in it.?🤔 Unlike Joan CRAWFORD T. B. left many of her to friends and maid in her will. Money was not her priority. so always doing pleased to her clothest and sometimes completely strangers. Loneliness was her biggest fear.
Seems Bette Davis and Bea Arthur didn't have such complimentary things to say about Miss Bankhead. She was a hoot on the Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour episode. I also wonder who the poster boy with the thick horn rim eyeglasses might be to Miss Bankhead's left in this clip.
Just a chorus dancer acting as an extra at the party.
@@aeichler Thank you. Did I see correctly at the end of the sequence, when Miss B and Andy stood up, that, when that horn rim eyeglasses man took her hand, it appeared as though she refused to take his hand by jerking her arm upward. Or, was it just the camera angle that made her arm movement appear to be a shunning movement? I watched that portion several times, and I can’t be certain. If she did refuse to take his hand, that was awfully rude.
Kathleen Turner
I think Merv Griffin is singing!!!
Merv Griffin started out in show biz as a big band singer.
So as long as you have a DISTINCT voice you can call it singing?
It's a style of talking/singing called "parlando" frequently used when actors perform on stage pretending to be a "singer." I actually love it. Rex Harrison did it all the way through the film version of My Fair Lady. Even Marlene Dietrich would do it regularly through her Las Vegas acts.
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I read about her. Sadly she was reckless with her life by engaging in drugs and alcohol. What's really sad is that she was proud of it!
I feel as if she had had a slight interest in health at all and maybe visited rehab at least once for a couple months...she probably would have lived a bit longer
I think Tallulah was a man. Come to think of it, I never saw Liberace and Tallulah in the same room together.
Ah, “Keeping America White” TV at its acme (or nadir)
I don't think she would get any chair turns on The Voice.
Like that's saying anything? Somehow I don't think Tallulah would give a hoot about "The Voice." She would be the one NOT to turn for them!!!!! Who are the judges on the voice anyway except washed up singers and ex pop stars who no one cares about anyway!??? They're mostly hopeless "celebrities" and once-famous or almost famous pop stars and one hit wonders and do The Voice only because their own careers are shrinking waning and television helps them to push it for a little longer.
Tallulah Bankhead was such a fabulously large personality (persona=mask) and was the embodiment of flair and theatricality. Performers these days are just robotic PR machines with no personality. When you hear the likes of Beyoncé and Gaga and all that tacky, fake claw acrylic fingernailed half-naked, ugly-faced, badly dressed lot speak, they just vomit the most crashingly boring politically correct propaganda to the media: zero shock value! Tallulah was shocking, daring and provocative. The new generation of performers lack charisma. Beyoncé to me is so hookerish and tacky: the butt-dancing and endless fake "girl power" which is all a front. On camera, all they do is pretend to be "nice" and polite and make all the socially acceptable "ME TOO" GEN sound bytes at press conferences but we all know they're far from it. The media has killed true personality which is why entertainment these days is so pathetic. There are no pithy one-liners, cheeky fun comments or provocative statements anymore. When you watch a Tallulah or Bette Davis give press conferences they put the media in their place which is what a big star SHOULD do! They used to correct the journalists and chide them for their silly, inane questions and it was so fabulous and entertaining. Nowadays stars seem like school teachers doing community service announcements! Yawn!
Tallulah, and the talented women and men of her generation mastered the media and had mastery over their public. So did Bette Davis and Marlene Dietrich. These new "stars" pretend to be so absurdly and pathetically "grateful" for their audiences ("my "little monsters" etc etc ad nauseam). A true star should despise their audience and look down on them - which is what the audience actually wants - and not pander obsequiously to them like dogs dry-humping lamp posts.
Tallulah Bankhead is what "stardom" is and personifies. Tallulah and Bette Davis and their ilk weren't afraid to speak up and tell people off and say it like it is. I find the current crop of so called "stars" - no matter how many "millions" of albums they sell or tours they do - to be as exciting as watching wet paint dry.
It's all only about money now.
One actress BD was known to copy Regularly
I don't think Bette Davis "copied" Tallulah, but I do feel that her performance in All About Eve parodied the persona of the Tallulah Bankhead type. The whole look and mannerisms of Margot Channing in All About Eve was very Tallulah: the hair, the smoking, the high camp mannerisms and gestures. Bette was a wonderful actress and I don't think she ever "copied" anyone, even though Tallulah may have inspired her interpretation of Margot Channing, but that is totally fine and what artists all do. Bette was a true original unto herself.
Such fake laughter, all on que
She sounds drunk.
Her voice is something else
She died two years later