Word: bankhead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tallulah Bankhead probably takes the leading role, but all of the characters, including Canada Lee, who puts in a masterful performance, and William "Smacksie" Bendix of "Wake Island" fame, seem chosen perfectly for their respective roles. With so limited a backdrop as the gray Atlantic, Hitchcock provides his audience with plenty of fast-talking aboard the boat. The arguments presented by the different characters, ranging from the socialism of the black gang to the utter sophistication of a Bankhead as a lady reporter and of a millionaire friend, are likewise honest in their interpretation. Hitchcock has scored again...
Backstage. In spite of professional performances by Tom Connally and his supporting company-which included such seasoned troupers as Mississippi's Bilbo, Alabama's Bankhead and Tennessee's McKellar (see cut)-none but the most gullible galleryite was taken in. Everybody else knew that a cynical Senate had quietly made an election-year deal, arranged everything backstage in advance. There would be 1) no filibuster, 2) no cloture, 3) no Marcantonio bill...
...Heard Alabama's cotton-conscious Bankhead rail against the menace of rayon ("We can't let 3,000,000 families in the South face starvation"). ¶ Decided to decline, with regret, an invitation to Congressmen to visit the British Parliament. Foreign Relations Chairman Tom Connally said he would ask for a "rain check...
...action of "Lifeboat" takes place on the open seas and centers about a lifeboat containing several people who have just been rescued from a sinking ship. By a quirk of fate, the Nazi submarine captain who torpedoed them is also aboard. For a time they drift aimlessly while Tallulah Bankhead and John Hodiak, the ship's oiler, take part in some sultry necking scenes and Bill Bendix, another crew member, moans about Rosie, Roseland, and the Dodgers...
Lifeboat (Tallulah Bankhead, William Bendix, John Hodiak, Henry Hull, Walter Slezak, Canada Lee, Heather Angel; TIME...