Word: tallulah
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With characteristic bad taste, TIME (Dec. 24) compounds and inflates all the vicious innuendo of defense counsel under the heading "Trial by Stage Whisper" [a report of the trial of Tallulah Bankhead's ex-maid, for kiting checks]. Said TIME: "The defense attorney had complained bitterly that there were 'two trials going on in this courtroom.' " Since TIME brazenly endorsed that fiction it should have added . . . that it was conducting a third trial, with me as its target...
...TALLULAH BANKHEAD New York City...
...sorry Tallulah Bankhead received so much unjust publicity in fighting a would-be blackmailer. She has done what any other citizen should...
...sensation-seekers and eyebrow-lifters were tantalized almost beyond endurance three weeks ago, when Tallulah Bankhead's grey-haired, 59-year-old ex-maid, Mrs. Evyleen Cronin, went on trial for larceny in Manhattan. Mrs. Cronin's attorney loudly promised to prove that his client was forced to buy "marijuana, cocaine, booze and gigolos" for the actress, and that she raised Tallulah's checks only to pay for her employer's excesses. But though Tallulah paced like a fevered tigress, in her desire to testify, the defense, equipped with windy oratory rather than facts, refused...
Life Beat, at the Kenmore, is one of Alfred Hitchcock's best. Tallulah Bankhead is characteristically emotional. Also on the twin bill Gregory Peck stars in The Keys of the Kingdom...