Random Awesome Old Hollywood Actresses Who Slept With Whoever They Felt Like (10 items)

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  (#8) Diana Dors

  • Dec. at 53 (1931-1984)

  With her ostentatious mansion, kitschy decadence, and debauched parties, British cult actress Diana Dors was the definition of notorious. Dors was married three times, had numerous lovers, and was rather quaintly called "a wayward hussy" by the Archbishop of Canterbury. She was famous not just for starring in low-budget films, but for filming people having sex in her house. According to sources: 

  "to whoops and laughter, [Dors's guests] watched grainy footage, transmitted via video-link, of an unsuspecting couple who had chosen to cavort in one of the dimly-lit upstairs bedrooms... it’s fair to say that pretty much anything was acceptable during the infamous sex parties staged at Orchard Manor in Sunningdale, Berkshire."
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  (#10) Daisy and Violet Hilton

  Conjoined twins Daisy and Violet Hilton are likely best known for starring in Tod Browning's cult masterpiece Freaks and Henry L. Fraser's exploitation flick Chained for Life. However, they actually made many movies, and rose to fame during the heyday of the 1920s and '30s vaudeville scene. Pretty, vivacious, and alluring, the twins (who were joined at the lower back and spine) allegedly had dozens of affairs. They were supposedly "welcomed by A-list America and promptly embraced all its hedonistic pleasures, partying hard and even taking a string of lovers. They also married, divorced and had a baby."

  Being conjoined, they had no physical privacy, so Harry Houdini taught them how to mentally "tune each other out," when necessary or needed - a skill, as the piece points out, "that they would later use to great effect in the bedroom."

  Their first of several affairs was apparently with a married friend, whose wife named them as correspondents in her divorce proceedings. Daisy later sought to marry musician Jack Lewis, but he eventually left her after 21 states refused to grant him a marriage license, technically because wedding Daisy and her sister would have counted as "bigamy."

  The twins were to a large extent victims of their time, and of Hollywood. After they became "too old" to work in show biz, they descended into poverty, and eventually died under tragic circumstances.
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  (#4) Jayne Mansfield

  • Dec. at 34 (1933-1967)

  Next to Mae West, Jayne Mansfield is probably more associated with racy and fabulous good times than any other actress in Hollywood history. (Who can forget that shot of Sophia Loren side-eyeing Mansfield's prominent cleavage?). The blonde bombshell had countless lovers and erotic romps, and was even rumored to have been a mistress of JFK. But her most notorious association was with Anton LaVey, founder of the Church of Satan. According to sources, Mansfield was not above tormenting the obsessed Satanist:

  "Mansfield, who made no secret of her many affairs, denied knowing LaVey intimately... according to [his] publicist, Mansfield would ridicule her Satanic suitor by calling from her Los Angeles home and seductively teasing him while her friends listened in on the conversation. LaVey’s public claims that he had an affair with Mansfield began only after Mansfield’s death in an automobile accident, which he also claimed was the result of a curse he had placed on her lover, Sam Brody."
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  (#7) Lupe Vélez

  • Died at 36 (1908-1944)

  Lupe Vélez, known as the "Mexican spitfire,"  has mostly become known for the bizarre urban legends surrounding her death. (She's rumored to have expired with her head in the toilet after having committed suicide in response to her lover abandoning her and their unborn child; but in fact she was discovered in her bed, by her secretary.)

  Vélez dated actor Gary Cooper for many years, and called him the love of her life. But she was jealous of him, and accused him of having an affair with actor Anderson Lawler, among other people. According to some stories, she "supposedly unzipped Cooper's pants at social gatherings to sniff at his crotch, claiming that she smelled Lawler's cologne."

  Known for her unbridled exhibitionism, Vélez was rumored to have had hundreds of lovers, and to have routinely participated in "bawdy" acts like lifting her dress above her head to reveal her habitual refusal to wear underwear. However, most of these reports were probably exaggerated; Vélez was said to have deliberately encouraged gossip.
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  (#6) Louise Brooks

  • Dec. at 79 (1906-1985)

  Louise Brooks had an extraordinarily brief, but impactful, film career. She hated Hollywood, seeking instead to build a haven (as this Pop Matters piece memorably puts it) out of "sex, books, and gin."

  Brooks did, however, like to have a good time. She left her first husband, director Eddie Sutherland, after she fell in love with George Preston Marshall, owner of the Washington Redskins. She then left Marshall to marry someone else, whom she then left after less than six months. Brooks also had many lovers - including, for a night, Greta Garbo - and frequently posed nude. 

  It was all short-lived, though: Brooks's life in film was over by the time she was 26. But, though her subsequent poverty caused a lot of problems, she never really regretted leaving the limelight.
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  (#3) Tallulah Bankhead

  • Dec. at 66 (1902-1968)

  Beautiful, rebellious, witty, and not afraid to occasionally alienate people by speaking her mind, Tallulah Bankhead was a one-of-a-kind sex symbol. Actor-writer Emlyn Williams described her voice as "steeped as deep in sex as the human voice can go without drowning," and her appetites were legion. One of many memorable anecdotes, as recounted by The New Yorker, involved:

  "a second-rank actor named John Emery, whom Tallulah had picked up on the summer circuit and, rather casually, married. Emery was good-looking, capable, and amiable. Best of all, he bore a marked resemblance to John Barrymore, and not only in profile: years earlier, when Barrymore revealed himself to her in his dressing room, Tallulah had sworn to herself (and anyone within earshot) never to sleep with any man who wasn’t 'hung like Barrymore,' and went on to claim that she had stuck to her word. (Since she also claimed five hundred or more conquests, perhaps she wasn’t always so picky.) One of Tallulah’s party tricks was to escort guests to the master bedroom, fling back the covers from the bed in which Emery was sleeping, and crow, 'Did you ever see a prick as big as that before?'”

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