Word: tallulah
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Little Foxes. Tense, biting drama with Tallulah Bankhead brilliantly imperious in the leading role (TIME...
...inventory but it is no great contribution to the permanent solution of the U. S. cotton problem. That problem is basically the loss of foreign markets, for the U. S. used to export two-thirds of its annual crop, now exports only one-third. Alabama's Bankhead (Tallulah's uncle) has an answer in the form of export subsidies but the Senate last week turned it down, largely because the subsidies would directly benefit no one in the U. S. In defense of the defeated measure Texas' Tom Connally orated...
...were an automobile, would be a Rolls-Royce with a Brewster body and the very best trimmings. Though not up to Wuthering Heights (TIME, April 17), it is one of the best star vehicles Hollywood has produced this year. As a play, it was not a success when Tallulah Bankhead took it to Broadway four years ago. Refashioned by Screenwriter Casey Robinson to fit Bette Davis, Warners' most talented and ambitious star, it gives her a chance to do a good job and puts her well up in line for her third Academy Award...
...Broadway: Helen Claire in Kiss the Boys Goodbye, Robert Morley in Oscar Wilde. For a musicomedian who became overnight a magnificent dramatic actress: Ethel Waters. For a dramatic actor who became overnight a triumphant musicomedian : Walter Huston. For a fine actress who at last found the right play: Tallulah Bankhead in The Little Foxes. For an Alice-sit-by-the-fire who again became the belle of the ball: Laurette Taylor in Outward Bound...
...Tallulah Bankhead-who, since her return from England in 1933, has floundered around in uncongenial roles-The Little Foxes offers a chance for powerful acting, and she takes it. She plays the masterful Regina with authority and insight. Herman Shumlin has directed the play in a style worthy of its significance and its star...