Pink Triangle: The Feuds and Private Lives of Tennessee Williams, Gore Vidal, Truman Capote, and Famous Members of Their Entourages (Blood Moon's Babylon Series) by Darwin Porter & Danforth Prince

Pink Triangle: The Feuds and Private Lives of Tennessee Williams, Gore Vidal, Truman Capote, and Famous Members of Their Entourages (Blood Moon's Babylon Series) by Darwin Porter & Danforth Prince

Author:Darwin Porter & Danforth Prince [Porter, Darwin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781936003389
Publisher: Blood Moon Productions
Published: 2014-02-01T00:00:00+00:00


Tab Hunter, with Tallulah Bankhead in Milk Train

At her final performance on Broadway, Tallulah once again attracted her gay camp followers. Marian Seldes told The New York Times, “Her cult shrieked with laughter at the most inappropriate moments.”

John Chapman in The New York Daily News claimed that the opening night audience was one of the queerest since the early days of the Ballet Russe [He meant the Ballets Russes] in Monte Carlo.

“Most of the seats were filled with screaming queens,” Hunter said. “The play was nothing more than an excuse to wallow in their idol’s patented schtick. We were props to her one-woman show.”

One magazine asserted, “These gay lads had come to see a travesty and despite Miss Bankhead’s sturdy refusal to commit one, they applauded, as though by their actions, they could call it into being.”

Merrick closed the play after five performances.

Seldes said, “Tennessee was always so in and out of favor. You could almost chart his critical ups and downs, although it would break your heart if you did. But I wanted everything he did to be magic, and I was terribly disappointed that Milk Train didn’t go over. It’s an imperfect play, but it’s beautifully imperfect.”

After the closing, Tallulah put up a brave front. “I detest the theater, dahlings,” she told reporters.

When Tennessee heard that, he differed. “Tallulah loves the theater with so much of her heart that, in order to protect her heart, she has to say that she hates it. But we know better when we see her on stage.”

The failure of Milk Train had a lot to do with the lack of interest from audiences in the mid-1960s. They didn’t want to line up at the box office to see a play with mystical overtones that asked them to contemplate an aging dowager’s morbid obsession with her own impending death.

Milk Train has never died. In England, as late as 1994, actor Rupert Everett, in drag, played Flora Goforth.

Tallulah kept her promise and never spoke to Richardson again, even when he approached her one night at a party in Manhattan. She snubbed him brusquely.

The bisexual actor and director never repaired his marriage to Vanessa Redgrave, and she divorced him in 1967. In 1991, at the age of sixty-three, he died of AIDS in Los Angeles.



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