In articulo mortis #2

On December 12, 1968, Bankhead died in St. Luke's Hospital in Manhattan at 7:45 a.m., aged 66. Her last coherent words reportedly were "Codeine ... Bourbon.".

[Carl Van Vechten, Tallulah Bankhead, 1934. Pour le reste clic-clic, Guadalupe et des souvenirs pas beaux.]