Diana Barrymore:
Drunk and Loving It!

“Like her father, Diana Barrymore (1921 – 1960) early acquired a passion for potables. This penchant once prompted [the well-known saloonkeeper] Toots Shore witticism, ‘That dame has been in more bars than TV,’ a statement Diana disdained to deny. After all, in the course of forty years of consuming strong drinks, her father had been able to put away the equivalent of 640 barrels of assorted alcohol, a real mark to shoot at. Especially for a girl determined to emulate him.”   

 Click here to read a 1960 article about her gin-soaked death.