S11E5: Bad Girls | The Pirates Anne Bonny and Mary Read & Tallulah Bankhead

For Alicia’s Birthday, Stacie spins quite the yarrrrn about the female pirates who’ve captivated generations, Anne Bonny and Mary Read. Then, Alicia tells the very trashy tale of one of the greatest women Alabama ever gave the world, Hollywood legend Tallulah Bankhead.

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Stacie’s Receipts

Forgotten Tales of South Carolina by Sherman Carmichael (Amazon.com)

Anne Bonny – Famous Pirate – The Way of the Pirates (thewayofthepirates.com)

Mary Read – Famous Pirate – The Way of the Pirates (thewayofthepirates.com)

Port Royal – Pirate History- The Way of the Pirates (thewayofthepirates.com)

Mary Read the Pirate (historic-uk.com)

The true and false stories of Anne Bonny, pirate woman of the Caribbean (postandcourier.com)

Alicia’s Receipts

In life, a love of ‘excess’ in death, a lasting allure (baltimoresun.com)

‘I Want to Try Everything Once’ / Tallulah Bankhead’s bisexual braggadocio stands up to scrutiny (sfgate.com)

Tallulah’s Back in Town, Still Famous for Her Infamy (nytimes.com)

Cruella de Vil Is Wicked – But Tallulah Bankhead Was Even Wilder (vanityfair.com)

DAH-LING: The strange case of Tallulah Bankhead (newyorker.com)

Tallulah Bankhead (encyclopediaofalabama.org)

Hollywood: Were Hattie McDaniel and Tallulah Bankhead Really an Item? (vanityfair.com)

What’s In A Name? | Bankhead (gpb.org)

Tallulah Bankhead | Vanity Fair | April 1990 (vanityfair.com)

Tallulah Bankhead was born 119 years ago today (beachamjournal.com)

Tallulah & Billie (starsandletters.blogspot.com)

Tallulah Bankhead on See It Now (YouTube link)

Bette Davis Tells A Story About Running Into Tallulah Bankhead (YouTube link)