Evelyn Eugenia “Beadsie” Bankhead

Evelyn Eugenia “Beadsie” Bankhead

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Profile photo by: Yancy Cowan Mitchell, from Hollywood Heyday: February 22, 1932

Hoyts To Wed Third Time
Tallulah Bankhead’s Sister Will Remarry on Riviera

Nice, France; Feb. 21, via wireless to the New York Times

Mrs. Eugenia Bankhead Hoyt, sister of actress Tallulah Bankhead, has just arrived here from Hollywood to marry her former husband, Morton Hoyt, for the third time. They were married first twelve years ago. Since then they have been divorced and remarried and redivorced.

Mrs. Eugenia Bankhead Hoyt, daughter of William Brockman Bankhead (D:AL), 42nd Speaker of the US House of Representatives, granddaughter of John Hollis (J.H.) Bankhead and the wife of Morton McMichael Hoyt, US Solicitor General in the Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft administrations, were first married in about 1920. In April, 1927, they were divorced at Reno, Nev., but were remarried in December, 1928. A second Reno divorce followed in December, 1930. In July, 1931, also at Reno, Mrs. Hoyt obtained an annulment of her marriage to Wilfred Lawson Butt, to whom she had been married after her second divorce.

Louisa d'Andelot Carpenter (October 16, 1907 – February 8, 1976) was a du Pont family heiress, noted horsewoman, early woman aviator, Jazz Age socialite and philanthropist.

Carpenter's obituary cited Eugenia Bankhead, the older sister of Tallulah Bankhead, as her partner in horse training and racing. Holman biographer Jon Bradshaw cited Eugenia's relationship with Carpenter as a "complicated love affair."

Tallulah Bankhead and Eugenia Bankhead are both buried at St. Paul's Kent Churchyard, an historic Episcopal Church in Kent County. When Tallulah died in December 1968, her sister Eugenia had her buried in Rock Hall, not far from where she had lived on Louisa Carpenter's estate since 1954. Tallulah Bankhead bequeathed a "pink shell brooch with gold and diamonds" to Carpenter in her will.[11] Eugenia Bankhead died in 1979.[12]

Miss Eugenia Bankhead is buried next to her sister in St. Paul's Cemetery. Both Eugenia and Tallulah were great friends of Louisa Carpenter and her husband. They owned the Philadelphia Phillies baseball team. Eugenia even lived with the Carpenter's for a period of time, and Tallulah would also spend time there.

Wedding Announcement, The Decatur Daily (Decatur, AL) 19 Dec 1929, Thu Page 1. Mrs. Eugenia Bankhead Hoyt, dau of US Rep. Bankhead, and Wilfred Lawson Butt, Univ of Nevada student, married Reno Nevada 29 Dec 1929. She is former wife of Morton Hoyt, son of former US Solicitor General

Reno Gazette-Journal (Reno, NV) 28 Jul 1930, Monday Page 10: Bankhead Girl Seeks to Annul Fourth Wedding. Suit to annul July 1 marriage to Howard Lee, former polo player, filed in Los Angeles on July 28 by Eugina Bankhead, who figured in three previous divorces in Reno. Wedding was 2 days after annulment of wedding to W. Larson Butt Jr. whom she discovered while on honeymoon trip to Honolulu had another wife in southern California, . . .