December 12, 1968 –
If I had to live my life again, I’d make the same mistakes, only sooner.
After a long and well enjoyed life, Tallulah Bankhead died in St. Luke’s Hospital in New York City of double pneumonia, complicated by emphysema and malnutrition, on this date.
Her last coherent words reportedly were “Codeine… bourbon.” (I will be stealing that, except substituting gin for bourbon at the end.)
And so it goes
The Haus of Dcaligari 