Tallulah Bankhead


  • Date of Birth: 31 January, 1902
  • Place of Birth: Huntsville, Alabama
  • Biography: Tallulah Brockman Bankhead (January 31, 1902 – December 12, 1968) was an American actress, talk-show host and bon vivant.

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Having attended (and reviewed ) the funny play about Tallulah Bankhead, Looped , in DC the other day, I've been having Tallulah moments ever since, reliving some of the choice lines in that show, re-reading stuff in books, checking out... ... Full Article

OK, daaaa lings, gather round: Valerie Harper needs you to know a few things about Tallulah Bankhead, the incorrigible Hollywood hellion she is embodying at the Lincoln Theatre here. ... Full Article

Every good writer needs a unique voice, and Lee Israel has one. But she's not above lifting someone else's. In her memoir, she writes about borrowing lines from Dorothy Parker , and even steals her title-"Can You Ever Forgive Me?"-from... ... Full Article

AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF Saturday, May 03, 2008 Arriving at a perfumed soirée lifted from 'One Thousand and One Nights,' Austin notables and nobodies in all manner of dress processed up a Cat Mountain hillside, bearing gifts. ... Full Article

This updating to pre-Second World War English grand house, with maids, bell-pulls and drop-waist dresses, had looked good when it opened last November but failed to come alive. ... Full Article

Tallulah Bankhead
mtv.com2002-01-31
Seductive, whiskey-voiced, one-of-a-kind American leading lady Tallulah Bankhead, the daughter of the Speaker of the House of Representatives William Brockman Bankhead, began her stage career at age 15 after being educated in a convent. ... Full Article

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