“I’m as pure as the driven slush.”
“Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.”
"I was a hedonist before I knew what hedonism was.”
“I’ve tried several varieties of sex. Going down on a woman gives me a stiff neck, going down on a man gives me lockjaw and conventional sex gives me claustrophobia.”
“My father warned me about men and booze, but he never said anything about women and cocaine.”
Born on this day 124 years ago: dissolute, hellraising wild woman of American stage and screen, the inspiration for Disney villainess Cruella de Vil AND Margo Channing in All About Eve, cigarette-in-human form, sophisticated lady with the soul of a hillbilly, that violently ravaged, bourbon-saturated gardenia once described by her friend Marlene Dietrich as "the most immoral woman that ever lived” and by Cecil Beaton as resembling a "wicked archangel” - Miss Tallulah Bankhead (31 January 1902 - 12 December 1968)! Do something extra sensual and depraved in Bankhead’s memory today! Pictured: Bankhead in the 1930s looking like a Tamara de Lempicka painting come to life.
