Word: tallulah
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dache (whose newest creation is a hat composed of a single pink garter) and Dressmaker Hattie Carnegie announced they would take the first possible boat to Paris. In San Francisco, Department Storekeeper Paul Verdier closed his doors and broke out champagne for his 600 employes. In Hollywood, husky-voiced Tallulah Bankhead, who had vowed not to take a drink until complete Allied victory, was rumored to have fallen off the wagon at an Elsa Maxwell Paris celebration party...
...Tallulah Bankhead probably takes the leading role, but all of the characters, including Canada Lee, who puts in a masterful performance, and William "Smacksie" Bendix of "Wake Island" fame, seem chosen perfectly for their respective roles. With so limited a backdrop as the gray Atlantic, Hitchcock provides his audience with plenty of fast-talking aboard the boat. The arguments presented by the different characters, ranging from the socialism of the black gang to the utter sophistication of a Bankhead as a lady reporter and of a millionaire friend, are likewise honest in their interpretation. Hitchcock has scored again...
...entire action of "Lifeboat" takes place on the open seas and centers about a lifeboat containing several people who have just been rescued from a sinking ship. By a quirk of fate, the Nazi submarine captain who torpedoed them is also aboard. For a time they drift aimlessly while Tallulah Bankhead and John Hodiak, the ship's oiler, take part in some sultry necking scenes and Bill Bendix, another crew member, moans about Rosie, Roseland, and the Dodgers...
Lifeboat (Tallulah Bankhead, William Bendix, John Hodiak, Henry Hull, Walter Slezak, Canada Lee, Heather Angel; TIME...
Lifeboat (Tallulah Bankhead, William Bendix, John Hodiak, Henry Hull, Walter Slezak, Canada Lee, Heather Angel; TIME...