December 12, 1968 –
Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don’t have time.
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 absolutely will be stealing that, except substituting gin for bourbon at the end.)
