Word: tallulah
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...meat of the film, however, is the chase. Disney dug up some fine period rolling stock and set it racing madly along a stretch of the antiquated Tallulah Falls Railroad in northern Georgia. The epic sight of the bright-colored, majestic eight-wheelers, belching smoke and spinning their drivers, is enough to make moviegoers thoroughly dissatisfied with the pallid diesel streamliners of today...
They also vary considerably in merit. The best job is young Actor T. C. Jones's female impersonations, especially of Tallulah. Short-haired Billie Hayes makes a lively ditty of / Could Love Him, Virginia Martin a lively ditty of Talent. In La Ronde a foursome smoothly act out a liltish tune. Funniest spoof proves to be one more take-off on a big Ziegfeld-era staircase number, with a showgirl, rigged out like an entire orange grove, having a ghastly time on the stairs. There is fun in Steady, Edna, which rags a British jungle film, while an upper...
...Tallulah matches wits with Carol Haney in their race for the title of Miss America of some years back. They're both pretty dry, in Ziegfeld Follies at the Shubert at 2:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. today...
...tremulous letter to the New York Times, Playwright Tennessee Williams at last explained the flap surrounding the debut of uptrodden Tallulah Bankhead as downtrodden Blanche Dubois in his A Streetcar Named Desire (TIME, Feb. 13). It was the morning after opening night in Miami, with three weeks to go before Streetcar careened into Manhattan's City Center. Recalled Williams: "She asked me meekly if she had played Blanche better than anyone else had played her. I hope you will forgive me for having answered, 'No, your performance was the worst I have seen.' . . . I never stated publicly...
...same, Tallulah was not only, in her own way, often remarkable, but she never really distorted the sense of the play. There was about her something not just Southern, but stricken: the horror aroused by the past, the clutched hope for the future, the crumbling desperation of the moment. If she missed pathos, she was fumbling, at least, after tragedy. The whole performance, indeed, might have come off a real tour de force-except that Tallulah's inherent force was the one thing alien to the part...