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...interest commanded by her subjects. She made headlines almost from the moment her career took off: THIS DARING CAMERA GIRL SCALES SKYSCRAPERS FOR ART. In the early 1940s, Hollywood issued a number of films based roughly on Bourke-White's character or exploits and starring the likes of Tallulah Bankhead, Claudette Colbert and Ann Sheridan. When, in the 1950s, she contracted Parkinson's disease and underwent an experimental operation to arrest her deterioration, she shared her experience with LIFE readers and inspired a TV drama called The Margaret Bourke-White Story...
...judgments about them tend to be subjective. A strong though eccentric case might be made for the final utterance of Britain's Lord Chief Justice Gordon Hewart, who died on a spring morning in 1944 with the words "Damn it! There's that cuckoo again!" Tallulah Bankhead used a splendid economy of language at her parting in New York City's St. Luke's Hospital in 1968. "Bourbon," she said. The Irish writer Brendan Behan rose to the occasion in 1964 when he turned to the nun who had just wiped his brow and said...
...several are exceptional, but the evening, in acting as well as writing, clearly belongs to Fierstein, 27. The son of a Brooklyn handkerchief maker, he began working as a drag queen in East Village clubs at 16 before turning to playwriting at 19. Onstage, his voice derives from Tallulah Bankhead, and his drag-queen clothes would look good on Carmen Miranda. In every other way he is unique. Like the very best actors, he does not play a part, he inhabits it. -By Gerald Clarke
...Eagle Has Two Heads-a chatty historical romance about a 19th century queen who falls in love with the man sent to assassinate her-for Edwige Feuillère and Jean Marais, who played it on the Paris stage in 1946 and in a film version in 1948. Tallulah Bankhead brought it to Broadway in 1947 (but without her original costar, the young Marlon Brando). Thirty years later, Monica Vitti, whom Antonioni had made a star with L 'Avventura, would call on her old mentor to collaborate on the project for RAI, the Italian television network. But Antonioni...
...Tappan Zee Playhouse in Nyack, N. Y., an event that turned into a surprise 80th-birthday party for Local Resident Helen Hayes. Broadway's longtime First Lady bubbled over at the prospect of restoring the old theater where she and such "dear friends" as Jack Benny, Tallulah Bankhead and Beatrice Lillie once played. She was no less pleased with the day's festivities. "This party looks like the 19th century," said the onetime star of Victoria Regina. So, sartorially speaking...