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...long run, this name dropping convention is frustrating because overall only about one of every three references are immediately identifiable by a modern audience. Here are just a few from one page: Stephen Boyd, Hope Lange, Suzy Parker, Natalie Wood, Frank Powell, D.W. Griffith, Joan Leslie, Tallulah Bankhead, H.B. Warner, Max Steiner, and Louise Brooks...
What would you consider the most famous example in literature? Well, probably in both Ulysses and Lady Chatterley's Lover. Norman Mailer using fug in The Naked and the Dead, which gave rise to the famous anecdote that at a party, Tallulah Bankhead - or in some versions, Dorothy Parker - came up to him and said, "So you're the young man who can't spell...
...talkies, Kirkland was among the hundreds of stage actors lured west. He had a contract at Fox (?The Devil?s Lottery,? ?Charlie Chan?s Chance? and the first talkie version of ?Black Beauty?), but his two notable films were made at Paramount - where he co-starred with Tallulah Bankhead in George Cukor?s first solo directorial feature, ?Tarnished Lady? - and MGM, where he got third billing (above Robert Young, Maureen O?Sullivan and other stars-to-be) playing the calf-like husband who can?t keep Norma Shearer from Clark Gable in the adaptation of O?Neill?s ?Strange Interlude...
...they are in and disappears. Clementine, taken to the hospital, finds herself the celebrity now, as the last person to have seen the missing star alive. As she slips into a life where privacy is obsolete, she starts to be visited by actresses from the past--Dorothy Lamour, Tallulah Bankhead, Marion Davies--who seem as real to her as the Virgin Mary might to other kinds of believers. We have entered the shivery realm of celebrity magic realism...
...Vietnam anomie far too explicit. ("Those people are grotesque," he complains of his parents' friends. "I want simple, honest people.") And maybe only a Brit could have envisioned Kathleen Turner, with her foghorn voice and faux Continental accent, as a bored Southern California housewife. Turner last played Tallulah Bankhead onstage, and doesn't seem to have paused for a cigarette in between. Her come-on to Benjamin is so overbearing and unsexy that it's a miracle the kid doesn't flee the room in horror. Forget Mrs. Robinson; paging Norma Desmond...