Word: bankhead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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WHRV will broadcast the Harvard Radio Workshop production of Noel Coward's "Private Lives" tonight. The HRW adaption of the Coward play, in which Tallulah Bankhead currently stars on Broadway, was made in 1945. Anna Prince '48, recently featured in "Amphitryon 38," Bob Miller '48, Harvard Dramatic Club president, Daniel Nichell '45, and Lydia Hind make up the four character cast...
When TIME'S Lester Bernstein and Researcher Jean Sulzberger turned up at Actress Tallulah Bankhead's country home recently for a 3 p.m. pre-cover story (TIME, Nov. 22) interview, Tallulah, "up and dressed," met them at the door and began to talk. After 20 breathless minutes she suddenly stopped her torrential discourse and said: "Now, ask me another question." Says Miss Sulzberger: "We hadn't even opened our mouths...
...stage managers, actors, writers, etc., and TIME correspondents throughout the U.S. and Europe talked to scores of her friends, enemies, and theatrical associates. It became quite clear that her friends regard Tallulah as an institution. They were frank, fair and helpful, and they did their best to augment the Bankhead legend. For example, her sister Eugenia, in discussing Tallulah's disputed age, is said to have said: "Every time Tallulah takes off a year, I have to, too. I don't know how long I can keep...
Gaudy Legend. At 47, after three decades in the dazzled public eye, Actress Bankhead is one of the few people in the English-speaking world instantly and unmistakably identifiable by her first name. Her lounging, lionesslike vitality, her insatiable lust for life and her contempt for all forms of humbug have inspired a large body of legend. Her egomania is about as extreme as "the artistic temperament" can produce. She is exhibitionistic, extravagant, self-indulgent, unpredictable-and full of whims, radiant good humor and terrible rages. She is all these things in a very fulltime, wholehearted...
...Grandfather John and Uncle John were U.S. Senators; Father William Brockman Bankhead was Speaker of the House...