Alright, Mr. DeMille, I’m Ready for My Closeup

by Frank Roche on January 23, 2008

This quote by Tallulah Bankhead just cracked me up:

They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.

Tallulah

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Tagged as: quotations, tallulah bankhead

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PaxRomano January 24, 2008 at 3:03 am: My fave Tallulah story goes something like this:

Tallulah, despite her boozy and ballsy ways, was a devout Catholic. One year on Good Friday she went to Saint Patrick’s in New York City for The Stations of the Cross. Prior to church, she had been enjoying a few cocktails with her drinking buddy, Truman Capote, and she had convinced him to come to church with her.

Anyway, a somewhat sauced Tallulah and the elfin Mr. Capote are sitting in the back of the church giggling and being bad, and as the priest comes down in the aisle of the great cathedral in full vestments and swinging his bejeweled incense burner which is hanging from a small chain, Tallulah yells out,

“Darling, I love the dress, but your purse is on fire!”
pax romano January 23, 2008 at 11:03 pm: My fave Tallulah story goes something like this:

Tallulah, despite her boozy and ballsy ways, was a devout Catholic. One year on Good Friday she went to Saint Patrick’s in New York City for The Stations of the Cross. Prior to church, she had been enjoying a few cocktails with her drinking buddy, Truman Capote, and she had convinced him to come to church with her.

Anyway, a somewhat sauced Tallulah and the elfin Mr. Capote are sitting in the back of the church giggling and being bad, and as the priest comes down in the aisle of the great cathedral in full vestments and swinging his bejeweled incense burner which is hanging from a small chain, Tallulah yells out,

“Darling, I love the dress, but your purse is on fire!”
Frank January 24, 2008 at 12:09 pm: OMG, Pax….that is too dang funny. And somehow I knew you’d know a Tallulah story…I posted this one for you.
Frank January 24, 2008 at 8:09 am: OMG, Pax….that is too dang funny. And somehow I knew you’d know a Tallulah story…I posted this one for you.
Pinky Bear January 24, 2008 at 11:51 pm: My favorite Talluah quote: “Cocaine isn’t addictive. I should know, I have been taking it for years, darling.”

fave story: Talluah was in a ladies toilet and realized that there was no more toilet paper. She knocked on the wall, asking the woman in the adjoining stall if she had any toilet paper. Sadly, the lady replied, “No.”

“Well then, do you have two Fives for a ten,” asked Ms. Talluah
Pinky Bear January 24, 2008 at 7:51 pm: My favorite Talluah quote: “Cocaine isn’t addictive. I should know, I have been taking it for years, darling.”

fave story: Talluah was in a ladies toilet and realized that there was no more toilet paper. She knocked on the wall, asking the woman in the adjoining stall if she had any toilet paper. Sadly, the lady replied, “No.”

“Well then, do you have two Fives for a ten,” asked Ms. Talluah
Frank January 25, 2008 at 3:06 am: Pinky Bear…I LOVE those stories. That’s my kind of humor…too funny.
Frank January 24, 2008 at 11:06 pm: Pinky Bear…I LOVE those stories. That’s my kind of humor…too funny.