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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...completely conceived was the stage play that its leading character, heartless, ambitious Regina Giddens, is played by Tragedian Bette Davis with scarcely an accent's difference from gruff Tallulah Bankhead's interpretation of the original Broadway role. This was not Miss Davis' idea. She quarreled with gap-toothed Director William Wyler (Jezebel, Dead End) for her own version. He-or the play-won. Result: the films' foremost dramatic actress not only acts like Tallulah but looks like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Sep. 1, 1941 | 9/1/1941 | See Source »

Cafe society's Patricia Anne ("Honeychile") Wilder went bankrupt for $8,212.24-mostly clothes and a $600 phone bill. ≤≤ Tallulah Bankhead took her lion cub to the zoo for a publicity shot, got bitten by a chimpanzee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Charmers in Trouble | 8/11/1941 | See Source »

Divorced. By Tallulah Bankhead, glamor-girl stage star, 39; John Emery, the leading man she surprised everybody by marrying in 1937; in Reno...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 23, 1941 | 6/23/1941 | See Source »

Separated. Tallulah Bankhead, 38, currently touring the South in The Little Foxes; and Actor John Emery, 36; after four years of a marriage that was the first for both. Gloomed Actress Bankhead: "We put the blame on that 'old debbil' career...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 17, 1941 | 3/17/1941 | See Source »

Included among those receiving a total of one ballot were: John W. Aiken (Socialist-Labor), Tallulah Bankhead, Nicholas Murray Butler, R. W. Grover, Tom Harmon, Margie Hart, and A. Hitler...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FINAL CRIMSON POLL COUNT FINDS WILLKIE STILL AHEAD | 11/4/1940 | See Source »

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