Witty, Wild Women (ep 186)

Your Brain on Facts

English - March 08, 2022 15:02 - 41 minutes - ★★★★★ - 156 ratings
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Why did no one tell me about Moms Mabley?!! Hear about her and other 'living loud and proud' ladies (Dorothy Parker, Mae West, Tallulah Bankhead) on this International Women's Day.
01:00 Tallulah Bankhead
13:00 Mae West
23:00 Moms Mabley
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Music: Kevin MacLeod, David Fesilyan, Dan Henig. and/or Chris Haugen.

Sources:
https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/204532%7C103917/Mae-West/#biography
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mae-West
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/52283/13-things-you-might-not-know-about-mae-west
http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2012/04/this-day-in-history-mae-west-is-sentenced-to-10-days-in-prison-for-writing-directing-and-performing-in-the-broadway-play-sex/
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tallulah-Bankhead
https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2021/05/real-cruella-de-vil-tallulah-bankhead
https://www.nytimes.com/1987/08/09/theater/theater-the-pain-behind-the-laughter-of-moms-mabley.html
https://dorothyparker.com/gallery/biography
https://bookshop.org/books/your-brain-on-facts-things-you-didn-t-know-things-you-thought-you-knew-and-things-you-never-knew-you-never-knew-trivia-quizzes-fun-fa/9781642502534?aid=14459&listref=books-based-on-podcasts
https://www.mamamia.com.au/tallulah-bankhead-cruella/

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Why did no one tell me about Moms Mabley?!! Hear about her and other 'living loud and proud' ladies (Dorothy Parker, Mae West, Tallulah Bankhead) on this International Women's Day.

01:00 Tallulah Bankhead

13:00 Mae West

23:00 Moms Mabley

Links to all the research resources are on the website.

Hang out with your fellow Brainiacs.

Reach out and touch Moxie on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram.

Become a patron of the podcast arts! Patreon or Ko-Fi. Or buy the book and a shirt.

Music: Kevin MacLeod, David Fesilyan, Dan Henig . and/or Chris Haugen.

Sources:

https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/204532%7C103917/Mae-West/#biography

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mae-West

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/52283/13-things-you-might-not-know-about-mae-west