Show notes
Montgomery Clift enters the chat as a teenage acting prodigy who immediately attracts 34 year-old Libby’s attention. Through her sometime-lover Nicholas Ray, Libby starts exploring Black folk music, launching a new singing career in collaboration with guitarist Josh White (“One Meatball”). Plus Libby’s old friend Clifton Webb becomes a late-in-life, closeted movie star, and Tallulah – effectively banished from Hollywood a decade earlier due to her refusal to be discreet about her sexuality – triumphantly returns to the screen thanks to Alfred Hitchcock.(00:00) Libby and Monty “Under the Sheets”(03:51) Appreciation or Cultural Appropriation?(06:23) Nicholas Ray, Leadbelly, Josh White(13:24) No White Person Has Ever Sung Them in Public(22:02) Everybody is in Love With Monty(28:44) Tallulah Bankhead in Movie Jail(36:13) Lifeboat(40:20) Clifton Webb’s Queer Success Story(45:46) Libby Lashes Out at Older Women(51:08) The Black Widow and Josh White(58:45) Libby’s Only Movie
