Would you agree that actress Barbara Payton had the worst Hollywood ending in history?

Her life sounds like my good weekend.

She said she never charged a black man.

Also, Franchot Tone shaved off and ate her pussy hair.

That Franchot- what a character.

Very perplexed by her career trajectory. Or not. She was very self destructive.

She had a busy life for someone who died at 39! Interesting story

[quote] Also, Franchot Tone shaved off and ate her pussy hair.

Wait, what?

E! mysteries and scandals episode

Her memoir is outrageous. Jack Nicholson gave the book to some actress for her to base her character on. Can’t remember who it was.

She didn't have that much of a career in the first place. Wikipedia says her career peaked with Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (1950) alongside James Cagney, only two years after debuting in Silver Butte. Dallas, in which she starred alongside Gary Cooper, came out the same year, followed by the Gregory Peck vehicle Only the Valiant in 1951. After that, her career went into decline before retiring from films in 1955.

Ultimately, she's only noteworthy - career wise - for starring alongside A+ list leading men in three films.

The book Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye: The Barbara Payton Story is a must-read.

She was fucking Bob Hope and having threesomes with him. She jumped out the window when his wife suddenly came home.

She was a whore darling. You could have her for five bucks. Granted, she'd fallen pretty low but if you bought her a drink at the old Cock & Bull on Sunset she'd suck your cock and call it charity.

[quote]she'd suck your cock and call it charity

I never judge how anyone decides to give back to the community. Charity is very personal thing.

They would find her missing teeth, black and blue, bloated, just a mess all the time. She was able to land big contracts and worked with the biggest in Hollywood. She was beautiful and then it all went to shit. That’s why her story is so notable.

There were many Hollywood stars who had equal or worse endings.

Here she is delivering booze to Franny in the hospital.

Her son was taken from her after a trick tried to stab him.

Noir Queen.

They’ve said that she was a sex addict.

Another arrest.

R8 La Streep—prep for Ironweed. Or was it Helen Hun—As Good As It Gets

She had no tits, no tits at all. But a bass mouth.

I read the John O'Dowd book about her (Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye) with quotes from her son. It gave a much more rounded picture of Payton. Toward the end though, she was shacked up with her pimp, who flipped one day and ran around trying to stab her son.

Barbara Payton tribute reel / may be of interest

She really no different from a lot of women.

She whined about Bob Hope's stinginess. "I could never get more than a hundred bucks out of that man."

No tits??!

I read the O’Dowd book and was strangely moved by it. She was just a disaster but Christ, what a life. I can’t believe she didn’t die via murder given her lifestyle.

[quote]They would find her missing teeth, black and blue, bloated, just a mess all the time. She was able to land big contracts and worked with the biggest in Hollywood. She was beautiful and then it all went to shit.

Life upon the wicked stage ain't ever what a girl supposes

Stage door Johnnies aren't raging over you with gems and roses

Wild old men who give you jewels and sables

Only live in Aesop's Fables

Life upon the wicked stage ain't nothin' for a girl!

She had a thing for big dick.

Vanity Fair covered her not too long ago. People new to Hollywood should be given a crash course in what happened to her and what not to do.

Here’s one of the Confidential stories she sold.

She was fucking Sinatra.

There are oral sex photos of her.

Where’s her “This is Your Life” episode?

Ralph: Now Barbara, do you recognized these voices—three men with biggest cocks you ever sucked off Sunset.

She was from the same town as Jessica Lange

From the very beginning, Barbara used speed to keep her weight down, tranquilizers to sleep and alcohol for just about everything else. She was incredibly promiscuous, and was not afraid to ask for money; soon after she signed with Universal she caught the eye of Bob Hope, who gave her an allowance and kept her in a luxurious apartment. But Hope dumped her when she started demanding more money, and she took up with her drug dealer, a sometimes-movie-extra named Don Cougar; that ended sometime after Cougar beat up Payton’s elderly landlady over a rent dispute. Over the next couple of years she is known to have been involved with Howard Hughes, Guy Madison, George Raft, John Ireland, Steve Cochran, Gregory Peck and Gary Cooper, plus many others who weren’t involved in the movie industry. In 1950, Franchot Tone fell in love with her and proposed; she accepted, but began an affair with a minor actor named Tom Neal. While Tone was away she even invited Neal to live with her (in the apartment Tone was paying for); when Tone returned she kicked him out. She went back and forth between the two men until September 14th, 1951, when Neal beat Tone so severely he was hospitalized; she then married Tone on September 28th, lived with him for 53 days and then returned to Neal, who as you might expect beat her regularly as well. The two never married, but stayed together for four years; and though both their careers were badly damaged by the scandal, the straw that broke the camel’s back in racist 1950s Hollywood was Payton’s relationship with her next boyfriend, black actor Woody Strode.

Ling story short, she poisoned herself to death and committed a long suicide with alcohol. Her parents were alcoholic who drank with her in her decline. That tells me everything, boundaries were crossed.

Alcohol is the gateway drug, not marijuana.

Long story short, fuck you autocorrect you fickle ho.

Perfect project for datalounge university history class advanced.

Franchot did not age well.

Thanks for the video will watch from the potty.

I think Lana Turner also kept getting with seedy types who roughed her up.

The guy who beat Franchot Tone to a pulp, Tom Neal, eventually moved to Palm Springs where he worked as a bouncer and restaurant host while trying to revive what was left of his career.

When that didn't work he found religion in the Christian Science Church where he met his future wife and slowly went insane. His religious fanaticism and paranoia drove his wife to file for divorce. Shortly later he shot her in the face, killing her.

Barbara never learned to roll with the punches. And, in this business, they come left right and below the belt.

[quote]Her memoir is outrageous. Jack Nicholson gave the book to some actress for her to base her character on. Can’t remember who it was.

Helen Lawson for her character in "The Booze is Like the Night".

Tom Neal was hot scumbag.

Dunno, r46. Kinda rough trade cute.

Chewy nips!

And that's a bad thing, R47?

R8, Jessica Lange based her "The Postman Always Rings Twice" character's backstory on Barbara Payton. As R35 mentioned, both Payton and Lange came from Cloquet, MN.

Did she stroll Sunset to get into character?

[quote]Alcohol and sex seem to have been Payton’s coping mechanism from a young age, and one killed her body while the other killed her soul.

Her soul is still here on the DL. ;)