One of the all time greats not many around today of her caliber, talent and long career in the motion picture industry. Very strong woman and constitution. She is one of my favorites

pro trick : watch series on Flixzone. Been using them for watching lots of of movies these days.

@Shawn Alejandro Yea, I have been watching on flixzone} for since december myself =)

and I love a legend like Tallulah too

I imagine to be an actor you need to have an ego in order to perform. Davis also had integrity and a true sense of herself as a person also as an actress: She was a total professional.

Just as a diver needs a scuba tank, an actor needs an ego; you'll drown in the shark-infested waters of Hollywood without one.

@@juliencamp3315 Marvelous observation!

@@elspethcoogan1499 "True sense of herself", I.e. sincerity when performing in front of the camera and on stage. Falseless (no falseness) sincerity, probably, is the most important component of acting craft.

@@petrfrizen6078 Thank you so much! I'm from an old Hollywood family - I was born there, as was my father; his father worked at Paramount. I was raised with an understanding of the entertainment culture and industry.

VERY! No one could tell a story like her!

your so right and I couldn't agree with you more.:-)

She was a great actress.

@@mmjhcb Yes she was...:-)

Yesss. I wasn’t even around for her and I find her extremely fascinating especially when she speaks

@markleon411 Joan Crawford's was Greta Garbo.

Well said and well put.

Some say it's a man's world but we have to passify women like Bette Davis..Who was difficult to work with☹️

@@victoragresti1777 Consummate professional. She knew her lines and everyone else's. She was no sex starlet who could get a free ride on her looks. Determination and talent made her a star, not the casting couch.

I saw her in 1987. She was tiny! But very, very intimidating

​@@victoragresti1777I love her but sometimes I think she was bitchy just for the hell of it. LOL

No I think she had met her match .....and knew it.

@@clivecarser7356 Mmmm…no…you missed the point.

@@robstockton911 did I?

@@clivecarser7356😂 You have things backwards. Bette outmaneuvered Tallulah every time.

You speak the truth, Kemo Sabe !

This.

There surely will never be another Bette or Tallulah, they both were one of a kind. And that is / was wonderful.

@@carls.1000 You have no way of knowing whether Tallulah was a “Girl on Top.” Focus on her movies such as Lifeboat.

@@davidhenschel1990 "Girl on Top" meaning in charge. The way she lived her life proves this statement. What evidence do you have to offer that she wasn't a "Girl on Top" and more importantly why are you taking a comment about Tullulah Bankhead so personally?

Right On ! I think it's the funniest episode in that "Lucy & Desi Comedy Hour" series in the late 50s.

And it was supposed to star Bette Davis, originally.

She was no Zasu Pitts, but the late great Ms Davis was indeed one gifted thespian.

Bette.

@@JamesBrown-ij1pxBette*

The silver stage?

BETTE!

Davis was a Bankhead clone.

I've only watched The Little Foxes, oh say about 20 times. One of Bette's favorite leading men was Herbert Marshall and the way they played off of each other in this film is genius. I'm teaching my Granddaughter about classic film. I treated her to The Little Foxes; It was the first time I've ever seen her applaude after a film ended. I was sooo proud of Bette! Tahlluh was good but she couldn't touch Bette.

"An authentic Aries." Through and through. No question about it.

*Bette not Bettie.

Bette and Joan would have an uneasy truce. They would ignore Tallulah. And Kate would ignore all three of them.

@@SymphonyBrahms Absolutely perfectly surmised! 😂👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

JAJAJJA, wonderful cuestion.

I laughed only by reading this. I can imagine it already!

director : heart attack..producer : mental institution....writer: alcoholics anonymous.....

Tallulah’s performance in Lifeboat is as good as any American actress has put on the silver screen. I don’t know why Lifeboat is not celebrated, not talked about. I have it in my favorite top 10.

Most of Tallulah's movies were flops. That's why Hollywood producers wouldn't hire her.

No. Not equally.

Tallulah had some really bad substance abuse problems. THAT was the problem. Bankhead had 1 great movie. Bette turned in great movie perfomances routinely and over and over

@Magnetron33 Ms. Bankhead had severe mental health issues including chronic insomnia and anger management. In 1949 she showed up drunk for some of her Broadway performances. She fell down onstage several times that year.

There's was nothing she could fight about.. Bette took the wind out of Tallulah's sails by Admitting to Tallulah "Yes Tallulah, you DID play all those parts I copied from you better than me" 😁 it left Tallulah speechless...

And speaking of the Claudette Colbert connection with Anne Baxter in AAE . In The Ten Commandments Anne Baxter played the Wife of Brenner but she did get made up like a Colbert look a like . Colbert had been the DeMille leading lady in a couple of biblical epics 20 years before . I guess she was too old for that part or she was asked and she turned it down . Somebody out there would more about this . Any on TTC I thought Baxter , who usually was a plain Jane actress should should have switched roles with Yvonne DeCarlo who usually played very glamourous roles . i guess that was the genius of DeMille .

So true ! Ms Bankhead was a much better guest star than Joan Crawford was in the 60's for Lucy on her "The Lucy Show" sitcom. Joan never looks really comfortable. And I've read in more than one place that Joan was intoxicated during her performance.

@@jubalcalif9100 For those who do not know , drunkenness on the part of Ms. Bankhead during the rehearsals of the Lucy/Desi episode caused the Arnaz ' alarm . In fact Bankhead was surprisingly good during the filming and Ball flubbed a couple of her lines .

When asked about her drug use and rumors of occasional Lesbianism, Tallulah said: "My daddy warned me about men and booze. He didn't say anything about women and cocaine."

That's too bad. It would have been nice to see her in movies.

Exactly!

I did see her in Faithless (made in 1932 and the last film she was in before Lifeboat) and I thought she was really good and I thought the film was very good, too. But I think there's a lot of truth in what you're saying as far as the general opinion of her as a film actress.

Too many.

@@jakebluethunder Yes, you are so right. I live in a place where people love to fight and yell and argue. If they aren't fighting, they're watching shows that revolve around fighting and arguing. Fighting is huge in America. It fuels the court system and keeps the emergency rooms filled.

Especially these days...it gets worse and worse.

She should’ve stop when she was Ahead

Wow, that escalated quickly! From “difficult” person to “wicked” in two sentences. The person was just drunk, as miss Davis clearly explained at the beginning of the story.

Tallulah wasn't wicked--she was a talented actress who believed she should have had a better career. Instead of dealing with her own demons, she chose to try to blame it on Bette Davis getting the roles she originated on stage. Bette Davis, however, was a genius. As far as I'm concerned, no one of that mainstream Hollywood generation came close to her.

@@seriesscratchx9807 Technically she was wicked based off everything that was documented on her. Plus she had no sense of self for the most part like Ms Davis and that's why most of her work flopped. Yes she did a LOT stage work but most stage is rooted in narcissism and not inclusion. So that's just me though....

And the great George Sanders sitting behind Marilyn Monroe.

She was also independently wealthy, being of the Alabama Bankheads.

Joan is good opposite Bette in 1962s "Baby Jane" but I would love to have seen Tallulah in Joan's role.

Well since nobody is alive who remembers Bankhead in the stage production, we'll never know.

I like her favorite film myself. Mr. Skeffington. They had her looking beautiful and it was one of her finest performances as was Jezebel.

I think What Ever Happened to Baby Jame was her best performance.

@@CanadianMonarchist horrible movie...

@@CanadianMonarchist It is absolutely up there. A true artist.

Well may I chime in? I believe in my humble opinion that Davis' best performance is in The Letter. Where she has to face down Gale Sondergaard. Which is no easy task.

Bette Davis was the best actress in Hollywood, followed by Barbara Stanwyck. I like Bankhead and Hayward, but they were not as good as Davis and Stanwyck. Joan Crawford was good in some roles, but she was not as good an actress as the others were.

These performances, whether films, tv, etc. have to be found, saved and watched ! I so wish we also filmed EVERY theater play, what a loss to have t hose performances be lost to time. The National Theatre in Britain films many of their plays, I've seen two that they shared and I'm so glad. It's history and should be available.

Bankhead made a few movies for Paramount in the early 30's but prints seem to have disappeared as TCM surely would show them on occasion. Bankhead's problem was that after a number of performances she lost interest and more or less phoned in the performance. Hellman, the author of Little Foxes was not happy. Bankhead did have a substance abuse problem as well as not being really disciplined about the craft of acting. I was lucky to see her twice on stage, first in Private Lives (it was a lot of fun seeing her but Coward did not have kind words for her performance) and the second was a play by the author of Midnight Cowboy who name escapes me. It co-stared Joan Blondell and Estelle Winwood. It was not a very good play and she never took it to NY. The best part of the evening was her curtain speech. She held on to the curtain--was she sober? who could tell but it was funny and made the whole evening worthwhile. I did she her on the street in Beverly Hills going into Romanoff's looking somewhat weather worn but given her life style I wasn't surprised. The two movies she made for Fox in the 40's were probably the best she committed to film, especially Lifeboat. The one about Catherine the Great was forgettable and her last film Die Die My Darling (I think that's the title does show up infrequently ) and she died shortly after; I believe she was only in her 60's. Her accusation that Davis was playing her in Eve is ridiculous as Claudette Colbert was originally cast in the role but for a back injury. Davis did not imitate Bankhead--that illusion existed only in her head.

@@davy91101 I believe one interview with Bankhead stated she hated film acting because you had to do the same thing over and over again for one scene, versus 'straight through' with a play. This both annoyed and bored her. Plus, she had the same reputation Marilyn Monroe later had - she was late to the set, probably high or drunk, and would be belligerent.

Bankhead may have rocked the stage but I don't think she had much screen presence.

@@Starkardur Heyrðu, ertu Íslendingur?

Having been born in 1902 time was not on her side. Also she had been typecast to playing vampish characters in the early 1930s at Paramount. She couldn’t draw empathy from movie audiences the way Davis could who was not only younger but capable of playing both vamp and girl next door. When the box office cash registers failed to ring, Bankhead just wasn’t called any more.

If you read anything about her, she was her own worst enemy.... She was Wild, Stayed in Trouble and Alienated Friends and Family.......at the drop of a hat. Her name was synonymous with Scandal.... She was also a Southerner and that has always carried one strike right out of the gate.......

@@ridgerunner5772 I know little about her life but just recently I heard about her again, she was depicted as lesbian junkie in United States Vs. Billie Holiday, that's quite shocking.

Tallulah tried to be a stage performer in film and that alienated a lot of people. Especially critics.

Because she always comes out as the winner?

She did it to Joan Crawford by serving her a baked canary for lunch

Yeah her daughter really screwed her over

Timing was not on Bankhead’s side in some instances. She had a few years on Davis. And was considered too old by the time those roles made their way into film.

@@diedonner299 Bette was old when young and Bankhead was young when old. I don`t like Davis as an actor. I adore Bankhead.

@@sandrashevey8252 I agree. That wasn’t how studio bosses thought about things apparently.

Margo was based on Elizabeth Bergner when she was doing The Two Mrs. Carroll's on Broadway. Author Mary Orr heard of Bergners conniving understudy and wrote the radio play The Wisdom Of Eve on which the film is based.

@@nealsims8372 So they say. Actually the sub-text is based on director Joe Mank`s affair with Judy Garland and observations of ways her mental stability was undermined by younger actresses and upcoming male actors who were in receipt of her patronage and her help. The real story behind `All About Eve`. Iconic!