Deitrich wore gold dust in her hair to look glamourous. She and Bankhead had adjoining dressing rooms at the Paramount studios. Both agreed on how "boring it was to be polite to women before seducing them." Bankhead, who was notorious for shocking people by not wearing underwear, powdered some of the gold dust on her pubic hair, then flashed people around the studio while exclaiming, "Guess what I've been doing?!?"