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Dear Charles (by Marc-Gilbert Sauva-jon and Frederick Jackson, adapted by Alan Melville), starring Tallulah Bankhead, a "comedy which proves conclusively that good manners are good morals," opens in mid-September. A British play imported by Producers Richard Aldrich and Richard Myers, the show tried out with some success on the straw-hat circuits this summer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Coming Attractions | 9/20/1954 | See Source »

Galen Drake Show (Sat. 9:15 a.m., CBS). Guest: Tallulah Bankhead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADIO: Program Preview, Apr. 12, 1954 | 4/12/1954 | See Source »

...cast really stand out. Pippa Scott, playing Frytania, is the Tallulah Bankhead of Bad Fairies, angular and wicked, with a fearsome bit of makeup to suit her evil soul. Slugging it out with the Bad Fairly is Weady Robertson as Beauty, who is the apogee of sweetness and light. Miss Robertson is marvelous in an extremely difficult part, since it is so much more difficult to portray Good than Evil...

Author: By Robert J. Schoenberg, | Title: Sleeping Beauty | 3/11/1954 | See Source »

Jimmy Durante, with Tallulah Bankhead, Carol Channing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADIO: Program Preview, Feb. 8, 1954 | 2/8/1954 | See Source »

...Tallulah Bankhead last week made most TV screens seem far too small. On the U.S. Steel Show (alt. Tues. 9:30 p.m., ABC-TV), starring in a production of Hedda Gabler, Tallulah turned Ibsen's devious, subtly evil heroine into a flamboyant, shouting hussy. It was like a lioness playing Puss in Boots. To TV audiences educated to the quiet underplaying of such shows as Dragnet, watching Actress Bankhead was a startling experience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Like a Divorce | 1/18/1954 | See Source »

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