I AM NOT ASHAMED - A tribute to BARBARA PAYTON

Barbara Lee Payton (born Barbara Lee Redfield; November 16, 1927 - May 8, 1967) was an American film actress best known for her stormy social life and battles with alcoholism and drug addiction.Excerpts from films are shown for education purposes; i do not claim the rights to any of them and the video is not monetized.

[@zero_bs_tolerance8646]

She was an excellent actress. Intense, beautiful, intelligent... she should've had a longer career and life. Thank you for the video.

[@lindasue4237]

She made her choices

[@zero_bs_tolerance8646]

@@lindasue4237 No kidding.

[@denisenoe3702]

@@lindasue4237 Hollywood big shots made their choices to hold things against her they probably would not have held against a man.

[@jod6cindy]

​@@lindasue4237 So did Franchot Tone, Linda Sue Lear.

[@jamesfox2579]

Poor, Barbara Payton.💔😢🥀🥀🥀

[@glittergirl1063]

I’ve always been drawn to Barbara Payton. She lived life on her terms. Yes she crashed and burned, but not before shining as bright as the sun! Love this video!

[@denisenoemyschizotypaldiso3755]

Hooray on all counts!

[@jod6cindy]

Paolo, this is a MAGNIFICENT tribute to Barbara. You have captured her strongest moments onscreen, and the ones that most definitely prove, without a doubt, Barbara COULD act. I am very moved by this beautiful work you have created in her memory, and will revisit it again. Thank you, Paolo. John O'Dowd, Barbara's biographer

[@paolobalmas2645]

Thank you for your kind comment, John. I'm really looking forward to read your biography of Barbara!

[@DrVonChilla]

Indeed.....certainly one of the very best clip shows to be found online. Bravo!!

[@charlottebrooks3671]

The title of the biography? I’d love to read it

[@jod6cindy]

@@charlottebrooks3671 Thanks, Charlotte. I've published two books about Barbara: Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye -The Barbara Payton Story, and Barbara Payton - A Life in Pictures. If you want to learn more about them, they're both on Amazon. Thanks very much.

[@frederickcombs8661]

The studios would burn stars this bright for as long as they could. Such dramatic acting uses people up right before your eyes.

[@midsomerparva5188]

Thank you for creating this great tribute to the beautiful and unforgotten Barbara Payton!

[@kirkmcdufford5885]

If you know someone with alcohol and drug problems and have hit rock bottom reach out and at least try to help them😊

[@TobyRossFun]

they need to want to be helped first

[@Jay-n262]

It's too bad they didn't have treatment for it back then. Many like Barbara Payton were alcoholics and addicts. Gail Russell was another one.

[@hawk622is306]

Paolo, thanks so much for your tribute to Barbara Peyton. Superbly re-mastered excerpts from her films. There seemed to be no support system from Hollywood for BP. Women, even the best actresses, dancers and models were run down by Entertainment, Inc., both in America and Europe. I'm 73 and have read many biographies/''tell-all's'' of TV/Movie female stars, and particularly in the last 15 years regard most of them as having been subject to systematic abuse, degradation, manipulation and ravaging of their mental and physical health by studio/corporate executives, and, if they were child stars, by their selfish show biz parents, especially their incestuous fathers. Porn princesses basically act out what mainstream actresses still have to perform privately and repeatedly on the ''casting couch'', to get hired, and stay on producers' payrolls. In a TV interview, Joan Collins mentioned a conversation she had with a sad Marilyn Monroe who lamented that when she was introduced to another higher-up in Hollywood, she had to resign herself to the brutal fact that '''it's just another c@ck I have to suck to stay in show business.'' If an icon like Marilyn Monroe had to submit to such gross sexual servitude gratifying predatory bosses, then what other stories of defilement could nearly every woman tell us about the horrors heaped on them in Tinseltown! Let people keep in mind the vicious exploitation that talented, beautiful women working in Hollywood have endured for over 120 years, before they judge and condemn Barbara Peyton, or any other so-called Hollywood ''bad girl''.

[@denisenoe7927]

Good points.

[@farina2640]

Such a great tribute! She was an amazing beauty and so talented.If things didn't gone wrong,she would have been a superstar.❤

[@tommystevenson2921]

a brilliant actor treated badly by hollywood....a sad end

[@phspalace1021]

She was so beautiful. Great tribute to Barbara Payton.

[@tammybettiga6263]

All those big shot's... And no one reached out a hand... To help her...

[@t.dickerson605]

She was a victim of her virtues as well as her vices. She was very generous and helped many people when she was on top. But when she slid, they were nowhere to be found.

[@TobyRossFun]

today we call it a mental sickness or sex obsessive's +alcoholism=escapism at any price

[@Jay-n262]

Before she died she actually had a part in an upcoming film. It's possible she could've turned it around but year's of drinking and drug abuse caused heart and liver failure. She collapsed on the way to the bathroom at 39 in her parents home where she was trying to get sober. Other actresses like Gail Russell and Inger Stevens died before their time too.

[@EYE_GOTCHA]

@@Jay-n262 *Where* is it stated, as fact, that Barbara had an upcoming part in ANYTHING before she died?? That poor thing was in no shape to act for YEARS before she died. I can't roll my eyes any harder at your ridiculous, ignorant comment.

[@GMAMEC]

She wasn’t well. You can’t fix someone who doesn’t want help.

[@tortimeese]

The Telegraph UK had a wonderful article on her today, which led me here. A lovely tribute. Such a gifted actor with such a sad personal life and demise.

[@awckid3]

What a beautiful woman. What a tragic life. Why?????????????

[@TheLydiaR]

These old movies are terrific!

[@LucyElHawari]

A must-read on BP: Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye by John O'Dowd and foreword by Barbara's son John Lee Payton: No words are needed.

[@munx1366]

Thank you very much, Lucy Maria. Barbara and her story mean a lot to me, and I'm extremely grateful to you for saying that. I'm going to try to keep doing my best for her, because I know in my soul she was a good and worthwhile person, and she deserves it. Thank you, and thank you again to Paolo for creating this video tribute to Barbara. John O'Dowd 2/28/21

[@LucyElHawari]

@@munx1366 it's an honor for me. Thank you once again.

[@LucyElHawari]

@@munx1366 I've just mentioned your "Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye" in my previous comment. I've read and reread your fascinating book so many times - one of my fav partners to beat the boredom on my flights - that it's almost impossible feel nothing but compassion for her. Because of your tireless work and tenderness we were able to get to know a woman who was too "human" for this world. Thank you.

[@TheLydiaR]

Reading it now. Very good 👍

[@jod6cindy]

To her family, and the friends who knew her best, Barbara Payton was a joyful free-spirit: gutsy, intelligent, bold, fearless, a bit naïve, intrinsically wholesome, sometimes profane, and hopelessly idealistic. Obviously, she was a complicated woman, and her wildly inconsistent behavior often proved maddening to both the industry and those who cared about her. Barbara was known to both family and acquaintances alike to be generous to a fault. She was also a compassionate person with a strong penchant for supporting the underdog, and was described by her sister-in-law and best friend Jan Redfield as having “an aching and totally trusting heart of gold.” She was a gourmet cook, a master upholsterer, a person who was highly skilled in interior decorating and design, a brilliant party hostess, and someone who truly loved and excelled in all things domestic. She was a worthwhile and talented person who also happened to have several formidable flaws; perhaps the most tragic being a seemingly insatiable need throughout her life to make one poor choice and bad decision after another. Many people will agree that Barbara was excellent in the films Trapped, Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye, Bad Blonde, and Murder is My Beat, and I hope that's never forgotten.

[@denisenoe3702]

I think you probably meant "Bride of the Gorilla" instead of "Bad Blonde." The former was a trash and camp classic in which she shone while the latter was a paint-by-numbers noir in which her talents weren't really put on full display.

[@Chutney1luv]

Paolo, these mo movies were fantastic of Barbara! She was an iconic actress that could play many parts! The only difference between then and now, is that today, there is help for actors; at the Studios! Why didn't they help Barbara?

[@crystalship9900]

Are you serious??? They didn’t give a flying fk about anything but the bottom line. Period.

[@miapdx503]

So beautiful, so talented, so of course they destroyed her. For who she loved...🌺

[@jod6cindy]

I'm Barbara's biographer and the two books I've published about her were recently bought by a European filmmaker to develop for a feature film. Barbara was deeply flawed, but she was also known to be a kind and generous person. I'm going to work hard to see that all those things are represented in the script.

[@charlottebrooks3671]

Thank you for focusing on her talent and artistry versus her personal struggles x

[@squalewally7297]

Barbara led a tough life. RIP

[@TheLydiaR]

Great tribute. Thanks 😊

[@johnnymfan5065]

Just watched her in Murder is My Beat(1955) good film

[@EYE_GOTCHA]

Barbara was earning $10,000 per week, for a time in 1950, which is equivalent to $122,892.53 today.

[@TobyRossFun]

Beautiful girl. Sad

[@lanacampbell-moore4549]

Rest In Peace 🙏

[@CrissyRed]

Superb. I loved this!

[@joey13zzzbee]

well, as Barbara Stanwyck said 'she darn well should be' so many of these girls had sad lifes: Veronica Lake, Frances Farmer, Daniella Rocca . . .

[@rubydawn1]

very beautiful lady

[@lc2748]

This was lovely, thank you❤

[@DrVonChilla]

Barbara Payton LIVES

[@jod6cindy]

Thank you, Dr VonChilla! You've done so much for Barbara, and I really appreciate it. Best to you always, John O'Dowd

[@DrVonChilla]

@@jod6cindy My pleasure, John. Best, John

[@sugarcookiecube]

She was bob hope’s mistress for decades. Sadly, he was such a low life that he never helped her when she needed help.

[@None-zc5vg]

He's been described as a predatory lecherous creep: I find it hard to watch his pictures

[@denisenoe3702]

No, he turned against her.

[@phoenixrising2268]

Anne Heche died today . Another in a long line of troubled and tragic Hollywood actresses, including Barbara Payton.

[@Wanapelei]

❤️🌹

[@SRSM198]

Such a waste of talent, Barbara Peyton could have gone far she was a very good actress with a future.

[@TobyRossFun]

Could have Should have Would have

[@denisenoemyschizotypaldiso3755]

@@TobyRossFun The death of her career was not ENTIRELY her own fault. In 1957, she made a comeback attempt but the studios froze her out. Raymond Burr tried to get her a part on Perry Mason -- she had gone to bat for him so he could star in Bride of the Gorilla -- but the executives of the show, including Gail Patrick Jackson, refused to employ her.

[@TobyRossFun]

@@denisenoemyschizotypaldiso3755 from a professional point of view you can't blame them...after her history why bother...from a humanistic platform of assessing its something else again

[@TobyRossFun]

@@denisenoemyschizotypaldiso3755 she was a loser from the get go not willing to exorcize her demons...her breath taking beauty took her as far as she could go (and some talent)

[@jod6cindy]

@@TobyRossFunBarbara's family and friends would beg to differ with you about her being a loser.

[@christianrokicki]

🙏🌹🌈🕊️

[@missrosecomfort]

she was fabulous hers was the best hollywood story the best feminist story the best story f self destrctin caused by child abuse and neglect the long swim scene way too real

[@TheLydiaR]

What a waste! Surely should have got an Oscar for terrific acting.

[@t.dickerson605]

Barbara Payton wrote poetry. Only one poem is known & I recite it here:kzbin.info/www/bejne/fYWraWSLiruaotE

[@juliethompson5301]

Did i just see Sid James?she was a good actor,her parents being chronic alcohol abusers cant have helped her addiction.

[@lindacharles6581]

It sounds as though she had a disease, I have known people who have had the same disease. Alcohol seems to be like a demon that attaches itself to families and destroys them

[@ly3819]

What is the song at the beginning?

[@TheLydiaR]

Had no idea she was in movie with Sid James!

[@denisenoemyschizotypaldiso3755]

She wrote poems but only one is known. I recite it here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fYWraWSLiruaotE

[@denisenoemyschizotypaldiso3755]

This richly talented but tragic performer was also a poet. I recite her only known poem: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fYWraWSLiruaotE Did I do it justice?

[@sportshistorybuff]

Much of her tragedy was self-inflicted. She was utterly classless and cruel in going back and forth between two fiance's within a matter of weeks, until Tom Neal almost murdered his French actor rival, Francois Tome. Then while the latter was recuperating in hospital with a fractured skull, Payton abandoned him again to be with the violent Neal. Her sexual appetite sleeping around Hollywood would not have been as damaging to her career if she would have kept her public and private lives separate, like most stars, but she almost seemed to flaunt her nymphomania in full view of the press. In a night club filled with servicemen, she actually made them fight over her attention. She sponged off the celebrity men she dated, expecting them to pay her rent, and when unable to do this, ignored her debts and bills. She lost custody of her son and never got it back by her death, not seeing him for years. One Hollywood insider stated she would have humped a dog if she could. All the more tragic since she had genuine acting ability, and held her own opposite some of the industry's leading men.

[@LucyElHawari]

For God's sake "French actor rival François Tome"??? FRANCHOT TONE was a very much american actor - here is our friend wiki to give you a help: "Stanislaus Pascal Franchot Tone was born in Niagara Falls, New York, the youngest son of Dr. Frank Jerome Tone, the wealthy president of the Carborundum Company, and his socially prominent wife, Gertrude Van Vrancken Franchot. His maternal great-grandfather was congressman Richard Franchot. Tone was also a distant relative of Wolfe Tone (the "father of Irish Republicanism").Tone was of French Canadian, Irish, and English ancestry. Through his ancestor, the nobleman Gilbert L'Homme de Basque, translated to Basque Homme and finally Bascom, he was of French Basque descent". Amongst other things, Tone was a great stage actor plus a founding member of the Group Theatre with the ordinary fellas Lee Strasberg (yes, that Actors Studio guy) and Stella Adler (only a girl next door) and being gossipy: Joan Crawford was his first wife. Advice when most needed is least heeded but I can not resist: less judgment and prejudice and more accurate information.

[@munx1366]

@@LucyElHawari Thank you, Lucy Maria, for defending Barbara's memory the way you have. I know her family and friends (and fans) appreciate it as much as I do. Thanks again. John O'Dowd 2/28/21

[@LucyElHawari]

@@munx1366 a stupidity like this should not be allowed. When we want give an opinion we must know about what we are talking about. If is too difficult reading a book, just google it.

[@munx1366]

@@LucyElHawari Thanks, Lucy. Some people will always criticize Barbara, but I no longer engage them in any way. Everything I learned about her - including that she was generous to a fault and talented in several creative areas unrelated to acting - I tried to adequately cover in her book, and that's the best I can do. A lot of people want to concentrate solely on the more prurient aspects of her story, and I find those people to be short-sighted and not worth my time in trying to defend Barbara to them. They obviously hate who she was, but they can't hurt her anymore, so let them believe what they want. Thank you again for your kindness and empathy, Lucy.

[@sportshistorybuff]

@@LucyElHawari Before you ride away on your high horse (which badly needs a vacation) my mistake over his name was hardly worth your sanctimonious rant. Francois is a far more common French name than Franchot, a rather easy mistake to make, as is a simple typo error misplacing an M or an N in his last name. the kind of mistake made millions of time everyday on YT, often by people smarter than either one of us. Mispelled or accurate, his name is as French-sounding as oui and bonjour, and almost 100% of North Americans would automatically connect it to France if they didn't know his biography. In regard to your last sentence...accurate information includes knowing how to spell the word CANNOT. Try pointing your prissy nose downward. You'll catch less rain and fewer people will notice your snottiness.

[@marksteinberg1315]

It’s terrible what happened to her. She had talent but her alcoholism and drug addiction destroyed her. Her sex scandals also destroyed her. She wound up walking the streets and getting beat up as a prostitute. Very sad story.