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DAH-LING.(Tallulah Bankhead)(Biography)
Most famous stage actors tactfully fade away. Who today is interested in Katharine Cornell, that First Lady of the American Theatre? Or that other First Lady, Helen Hayes? Or that First among Firsts, Ethel Barrymore? (Well, yes, she was the great-aunt of Drew.) Of the theatrical greats of their day, only Tallulah Bankhead, who died in 1968, has not gone gentle into oblivion. Since her death, there have been seven biographies, the latest, "Tallulah! The Life and Times of a Leading Lady," by Joel Lobenthal, published only this past fall. And her own book, "Tallulah," the No. 5 nonfiction best-seller of 1952 (No. 1 was the Revised Standard Version of the Bible; Whittaker ...
- Tallulah Bankhead: as skilled with an off-the-cuff one-liner as a line of...
- Magazine article from: Interview Lobenthal, Joel October 1, 2004 700+ words
...talented and beautiful, but what made Tallulah Bankhead unforgettable was her outrageousness...kicking conventions aside. But Tallulah was born in 1902, into what used...Joel Lobenthal's new biography, Tallulah! The Life and Times of a Leading...
- Tallulah Bankhead
- Picture from: Archive Photos January 1, 1939 700+ words
Archive Photos 01-01-1939 Tallulah Bankhead A worldly Tallulah Bankhead poses in costume onstage in a scene from The...Little Foxes. Little Foxes. hats. A worldly Tallulah Bankhead poses in costume onstage in a scene from The...
- Kathleen Turner purrs as Tallulah Bankhead in touring show.(Knight Ridder...
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Kohn, Martin F. February 14, 2001 700+ words
...like Turner's belonged to Tallulah Bankhead, the person Turner portrays in the touring one-woman show "Tallulah." With any luck, will make...is one way she differs from Tallulah Bankhead. "I've been married for...
- Turner doesn't miss a beat as actress Tallulah Bankhead.(Arts and Lifestyle)
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald Byrne, Terry October 12, 2000 700+ words
...Heyward, rather than Turner. "Tallulah" attempts to capture the larger-than-life image of actress Tallulah Bankhead, a woman whose notoriously naughty...and "Private Lives." With "Tallulah," Heyward attempts to focus less...
- Turner embodies heat in portrayal of legendary star Tallulah...
- Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) Preston, Rohan October 1, 2000 700+ words
...Kathleen Turner is portraying the late Tallulah Bankhead, who once bragged that she had...Written by Sandra Ryan Heyward, "Tallulah," which begins a national tour...service workers, first performed "Tallulah" in 1997 at the Chichester Festival...
- Tallulah Bankhead redux.(Tidbits and Morsels: A column of musings on news that...
- Newspaper article from: Iran Times International (Washington, DC) July 3, 2009 700+ words
Tallulah Bankhead redux: Oscar nominee Shohreh Aghdashloo says it's her husky voice more than her face that gives her away to Americans. In an...
- Tallulah Bankhead.
- Picture from: NYPL Digital Gallery unknown January 1, 1934 700+ words
- Charles Bickford and Tallulah Bankhead.
- Picture from: NYPL Digital Gallery unknown January 1, 1934 700+ words