Word: bankhead
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ever since Iowa-born Meredith Willson, 49, wrote May the Good Lord Bless and Keep You as a closing number ("something benedictory") for Tallulah Bankhead's The Big Show last fall, he has been flooded with up to 2,000 fan letters a week. Once when he tried "to give it a little beat," the letters demanded that he "quit jazzing up that hymn." Says somewhat surprised Composer Willson, who based the song on his mother's parting blessing to her Mason City Sunday-school pupils: "It's not a hymn, it's not hillbilly...
Screen Directors' Playhouse (Thurs. 10 p.m., NBC). Tallulah Bankhead in Humoresque...
...other parts. Actually, she has already resolved both doubts to the satisfaction of most critics. As the simple, unaffected Southern belle of Deep Are the Roots (1945), she had shown her capacity for serious drama; now she has shown her mastery of the peculiar demands of airy farce. Cornell, Bankhead, Hayes and Lawrence will not have to give way to Barbara for a while yet. But the quiet radiance and well-trained competence that Barbara had brought to Broadway was enough to give the fabulous invalid plenty of hope for the day when her elders might retire. "Barbara...
...didn't realize," said Barbara last week, "how much I had missed New York." With her play set for a long run, and a seven-month contract guaranteeing her 10% of the box-office take (a figure topped only by such stars as Bankhead and Lawrence), she had time at last to spend long hours with her daughter Susan. The marriage which had been foundering on the shoals of Hollywood was ending in amicable divorce. Barbara had taken a two-year lease on a house in the East 80s, and was busy furnishing it. There were romantic and practical...
...Washington, Tallulah Bankhead explained her education: "Daddy let me quit school at 15. He didn't see any sense to my trying to learn algebra when I wanted to go on the stage. He said if I knew Shakespeare and the Bible and how to shoot craps, I had a liberal education...