Word: tallulah
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Streetcar Named Desire rumbled into Manhattan's City Center with Tallulah Bankhead on board. On hand to greet it were a good many first-nighters who plainly expected Alabama Bankhead's playing to make a comic football of Tennessee Williams' play. They could not have been more wrong; it was the audience that acted up, not the star...
...serious effort at portraying Blanche Du Bois's neurotic downhill journey, did Tallulah herself sweep onward and upward in triumph? Unfortunately, no. Such a result belongs to the dream world that Blanche inhabits, not to the real world that Tallulah evokes. Too often frustrated, tremulous Blanche was one thing, leopard-like Tallulah another; and they could not exchange their spots. Instead of genteel make-believe, there was a kind of barbaric grand manner...
Gasping and guffawing, Miami playgoers were watching reckless-driving Actress Tallulah Bankhead run A Streetcar Named Desire completely off its trolley. In the role of beaten, world-weary Blanche Dubois, Tallulah was heartily playing Tallulah. She roared over the boards, always managed to be upstage, downed her onstage liquor as if it were the real stuff, generally hammed her way through the part in a spirit of riotous deviltry. In the play's climactic scene, where the script calls for Blanche to be set up for a rape by brutish Stanley Kowalski, most viewers feared for poor Kowalski...
Martha Raye Show (Tues. 8 p.m NBC). With Tallulah Bankhead...
...Tallulah's visit in the capital, however, was marked by such sweetness and light wit. Another Washington visitor, Britain's bodkin-tongued Lady Astor, was invited to share a platform with Actress Bankhead as a fellow guest of honor. Nancy Astor replied that she would never appear anywhere with "that perfectly horrible woman . . . I'm repelled by her!" Upon hearing of ex-M.P. Astor's unparliamentary affront, Tallulah snorted: "She probably disapproves of me as much as I do of her, the bitchy old hypocrite!" Urged to tone down her statement...