NEW SEALED LP TALLULAH BANKHEAD IN HEAVEN MICHAEL GREER GAY FEMALE IMPERSONATOR
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"TALLULAH IN HEAVEN!"
MICHAEL GREER as the DIVINE MISS BANKHEAD!
A COMEDY ALBUM
33 RPM VINYL LP RECORD
Riprap Records Stereo 1010
The fabulous Michael Greer recorded this album called "Tallulah in Heaven" in which he mimics the voice of Tallulah Bankhead as she goes through heaven greeting people and making her customary remarks, which get her into severe trouble with God. True to form Tallulah has no interest in giving up swearing, drinking, smoking or any of her ranting and raving, even in Heaven. She ends up doing switchboard taking calls for Marilyn Monroe, Anna Mae Wong, Hattie McDaniel and a host of others. A true delight.
VINYL = BRAND NEW, FACTORY SEALED
COVER = EXCELLENT, ALMOST LIKE NEW, ONLY A HINT OF MINOR WEAR.
Michael Greer was an actor and comedian. His most famous role was as "Queenie," the prison drag queen in Sal Mineo's stage and the Harvey Hart film version's of "Fortune and Men's Eyes" which dealt with sex in prison. Mr. Greer appeared as Don Johnson's friend in the 60s cult film "The Magical Garden of Stanley Sweetheart." That movie was also Don Johnson's big screen debut. Other credits include the B-Movie sex comedy "Summer School Teachers" and "The Gay Deceivers" about two guys avoiding combat in Vietnam by pretending to be gay. He also had bit parts in the Steve Martin comedy "The Lonely Guy" and the Bette Midler vehicle "The Rose." Michael was also famous for his live performances as a comedian. Of particular note was a monologue, as the Mona Lisa, holding a giant gilded frame around himself. He wrote supplemental material for Debbie Reynolds Vegas act, and was once called in to dub Bette Davis' voice when she refused to loop over scenes. Greer was somewhat a victim of early "gaysploitation" films. A talented actor, it never occurred to him that once he had turned in solid performances as designated that he would not be allowed to work as much else, partially because no one had done it before. He is not acknowledged much in gay cinema because of a climate of political correctness. He is probably more accurately remembered by friends, colleagues, and punters that saw his live work, than by Hollywood standards. Sadly he passed away of cancer a few years back. Certainly Michael Greer helped pave the way for other gay camp and transgender acts, as did the great female impersonators such as T. C. Jones, Arthur Blake Charles Pierce, Craig Russell, Jim Bailey, Lee Sutton, Ty Bennett, Christine Jorgensen (who was history's first famous transexual/transgender person) and today's Jimmy James.
Tallulah Bankhead Biography The seductive, whiskey-voiced, one-of-a-kind American leading lady Tallulah Bankhead, daughter of the Speaker of the House of Representatives William Brockman Bankhead, began her stage career at age 15 after being educated in a convent. She did much stage work plus two silent films, then went to London in 1923 where she became a celebrity while performing brilliantly in several plays. The hot-blooded Bankhead preferred to live dangerously and became notorious for her uninhibited behavior such as taking off her clothes in public. She appeared in two British silent films before coming to America in 1930; signed by Paramount, she began her movie career in earnest but remained more a fixture of Broadway, where she sparkled in plays such as The Little Foxes (for which she won the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award in 1939, an award she won again in 1942 for The Skin of Our Teeth). Her movie career was spotty and included several box office disasters, perhaps because her extravagant, larger-than-life personality was too powerful for the screen; her more memorable appearances include a celebrated performance in Hitchcock's Lifeboat (1944), for which she was cited by New York Film Critics. Bankhead made only three more films after Lifeboat. She was briefly married to actor John Emery. In 1952, she wrote her autobiography, Tallulah. Though Tallulah Bankhead's career slowed in the mid-1950s, she never faded from the public eye. Although she had become a heavy drinker and consumer of sleeping pills (she was a life-long insomniac), Bankhead continued to perform in the 1950s and 1960s on Broadway, in the occasional film, as a highly-popular radio show host, and in the new medium of television. In 1950, in an effort to cut into the rating leads of The Jack Benny Program and The Edgar Bergen & Charlie McCarthy Show which had jumped from NBC radio to CBS radio the previous season, NBC spent millions over the two seasons of The Big Show starring "the glamorous, unpredictable" Tallulah Bankhead as its host, in which she acted not only as mistress of ceremonies but also performed monologues and songs, many of which can be heard on the album Give My Regards To Broadway!. Despite Meredith Willson's Orchestra and Chorus and top guest stars from Broadway, Hollywood and radio - including Fred Allen, Marlene Dietrich, Fanny Brice, Groucho Marx, Ethel Merman, Gracie Fields, Vera Lynn, Jimmy Durante, Peggy Lee, Martin & Lewis, George Jessel, Judy Garland, Ethel Barrymore, Gloria Swanson, José Ferrer and Judy Holliday, The Big Show, which earned rave reviews, failed to do more than dent Jack Benny's and Edgar Bergen's ratings. Bankhead, who proved a masterful comedienne and intriguing personality, however, was not blamed for the failure of The Big Show, television's growth was hurting all radio ratings at the time, so the next season NBC installed her as one of a half dozen rotating hosts of NBC's The All Star Revue on Saturday nights. Although critics, pros and the sophisticated set loved her, and Tallulah's monologues became classics, she was not among the hosts renewed for the following season. Bankhead's most popular television appearance was her December 3, 1957 appearance on The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour. Bankhead played herself in the episode titled "The Celebrity Next Door." The part was originally slated for Bette Davis, but she had to bow out after cracking her vertebra. Lucille Ball was a fan of Bankhead's and did a good impression of her. By the time the episode was filmed, however, both Ball and Desi Arnaz were at their wit's end over Bankhead's behavior during rehearsal: she refused to listen to the director and she did not like to rehearse. It took her three hours to "wake up" once she arrived on the set and everyone thought she was drunk most of the time. Ball and Arnaz apparently didn't know about Tallulah's antipathy toward rehearsing or her incredible ability to memorize a script. The actual filming of the episode went off without a hitch, and Bankhead impressed everyone with her line readings and professionalism". Lucille Ball later said that she was conned by Bankhead who purposely made her think she would screw up to throw her off kilter. Desi Arnaz said that Bankhead walked all over him and Ball, and they hadn't known this was typical behavior. Bankhead appeared as Blanche DuBois in a revival of Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire (1956), but reviews were poor. Fans who saw her late into the six-week run at City Center were graced with a far better performance. She received a Tony Award nomination for her performance of a bizarre 50-year-old mother in Mary Chase's Midgie Purvis (1961). Her last theatrical appearance was in another Williams play, The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore (1963). Although she received good notices for her last performances, her career as one of the greats of the American stage was coming to an end. Her last motion picture was a British horror film, Fanatic (1965), co-starring Stefanie Powers, which was released in the U.S. as Die! Die! My Darling!. Her last appearance on screen came in March 1967 as the villainous Black Widow in the Batman TV series. According to author Brendan Gill, when Bankhead entered the hospital for an illness, an article was headed "Tallulah Hospitalized, Hospital Tallulahized." This headline was a testament to Bankhead's large, charismatic personality (which inspired much of the "personality" of the character Cruella De Vil in Disney's One Hundred and One Dalmatians. Bankhead had no children but was the godmother of Brook and Brockman Seawell, children of her lifelong friend and actress Eugenia Rawls and Rawls's husband, Donald Seawell. She was known for her kindness to animals and children. Bankhead was an avid baseball fan whose favorite team was the New York Giants. This was evident in one of her famous quotes, through which she gave a nod to the arts: "There have been only two geniuses in the world. Willie Mays and Willie Shakespeare. But, darling, I think you'd better put Shakespeare first." Tallulah Bankhead died in St. Luke's Hospital in New York City of double pneumonia arising from influenza, complicated by emphysema, at the age of 66 on December 12, 1968, and is buried in Saint Paul's Churchyard, Chestertown, Maryland. Her last coherent words were "Codeine... bourbon." COMBINE RECORD SHIPMENTS AND SAVE MONEY ON SHIPPING!!! Visual Grading Is as Follows:
MINT .. Literally Perfect Record, Shiny Gloss, No Marks, Beautiful Condition.
MINT- .. Very Clean, Light Paper Marks... A Great Record for Most Any Collector.
VG++ (EX) ... Very Clean, Light Paper Marks... Plays Well with Seldom, but Occasional and Minimal Surface Noise
VG+ .. Light Scratches Only, Should Play Well with Only Occasional and Minimal Surface Noise at Times.
VG .. A Nice Record, Looks Used with Some Scratches. Plays with Some Surface Noise.
VG- .. Rough with Scratches and has Some Surface Noise , but Will Play without skips.
G .. Plays Quite Rough, Has Multiple Scratches, Very Noisy.
P .. Poor Condition. Good only for those who will accept any copy to fill in their collection.
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