Femmes Fatales | Jan 7 2014 |
Hollywood never knew what hit it.
We shared a photo of American actress Tallulah Bankhead several years ago but that shot was from the rear, which really didn’t do much to suggest how beautiful she was. Above you see her from the front, in one of the best photos we’ve encountered of her. Her kind of beauty could bring elegance or possibly even innocence to mind, but she was actually a legendary hellraiser, filling her nights with booze, drugs, affairs with both sexes, and shocking pranks such as stripping naked at parties. While she died at the fairly young age of sixty-six (with her last breath she reportedly uttered the words “codeine” and “bourbon”) she would doubtless have pointed out that a good forty-five years of wild times and memorable fun is better than sixty years of behaving oneself. Besides, even the well-behaved die early. Just imagine their regret. This shot is probably from the early 1930s.