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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