Word: tallulah
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tallulah Bankhead is a first rate female who has the voice, the volatility and the savoir-faire to slip into a role as well tailored as her Mainbocher gown. As Amanda Prynne, a remarried divorcee on her honeymoon, she runs into her former husband, in a peculiarly identical circumstance, and complication set in. By the time the scene has changed from Southern France to Paris, they have started "afresh as two quite different people," leaving their respective spouses to the devil and fortunes of roulette. The pugilistie love affair that follows involves much description, mainly of a ringside nature...
...last week's Greenwich (Conn.) Theater run, Tallulah Bankhead got a cool $2,500; first-night orchestra seats at $4.80 per helped pay the freight...
Died. John Hollis Bankhead, 73, Senator from Alabama since 1931, who fought hard for the restoration of ex-King Cotton to the U.S. economic throne, last of a hardy trio of congressional Bankheads, uncle of throaty Actress Tallulah; of cerebral thrombosis; in Bethesda...
...daughter of a Swedish Army major, who retired to become a Stockholm publisher, auburn-haired, 25-year-old Viveca Lindfors is tallish and square-shouldered, with Tallulah Bankhead's big, mobile features and Garbo's own throaty purr. An ambitious student who used to steal scenes ("Oh, that is bad thing to do!") when her director wasn't looking, versatile Viveca (rhymes with "terrific, ah!") has been for five years one of Sweden's top stage & screen stars, playing nearly everything from Shakespeare to Maxwell Anderson...
...gets a lot of special handling, and quite a budget ($150,000 a year). Last year 800 actors and musicians and 45 scriptwriters were used on one or another of its 150 pro grams. Its guest performers have included Carl Van Doren, Archibald MacLeish, Orson Welles, Canada Lee, Tallulah Bankhead, Deems Taylor. The Army broadcast it to servicemen over 400 radio stations, and the OWI beamed it to Australia and New Zealand...