8. The Hard Living Times of Tallulah Bankhead
Oh, Tallulah. Unlike Kim Kardashian, Tallulah Bankhead actually had talent, and even though Youtube was obsolete in her heydays (1920s-40s), she still managed to raise eyebrows with her exploits. In the days when flappers were seen as the lewdest of the lewd for, gasp, DARING TO HAVE SHORT HAIR AND WEAR HEMLINES ABOVE THE KNEE, Tallulah was already making a name for herself as a hellraiser. She would regularly partake in cocaine and marijuana, and had no qualms about talking about her various kinks. At an event in New York she engaged in graphic sex talk with (of all people) Chico Marx, admitted that she only went to Hollywood to f*%^ Gary Cooper, and would do cartwheels at parties
sans underpants. She was like one of the wild and insane guests at one of Jay Gatsby's soirees. Other than a short marriage to John Emery, Bankhead had no other stable relationships. She was too busy having the time of her life, bedding everyone from Billie Holiday to Greta Garbo to Irving Thalberg. She had to have an emergency hysterectomy in 1933 because of her numerous STDs, was accused of corrupting schoolboys at Eton, got as drunk as a skunk on the set of I Love Lucy and her last words were 'Codeine... bourbon'. Oh, Tallulah. So awesome, yet so nuts.