Word: tallulah
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dear Charles (adapted by Alan Melville from a comedy by Marc-Gilbert Sauvajon and Frederick Jackson) brougt Tallulah Bankhead back to Broadway after five years-and itself back after ten. A 1944 flop called Slightly Scandalous, was adapted into a Paris hit, then (as Dear Charles) into a London...
...overaggressive sex comedy, it has been broadened by foreign travel but scarcely brightened, and Tallulah should have thought twice about appearing in it. No doubt she did, and chose it not as challenge but as a field day. Playing a Parisian writer who has had three children by as many lovers, she decides-now that her children wish to marry respectably-that she had better get married herself. The three fathers, after 20 years, are hence bidden to a house party...
Dear Charles (by Marc-Gilbert Sauva-jon and Frederick Jackson, adapted by Alan Melville), starring Tallulah Bankhead, a "comedy which proves conclusively that good manners are good morals," opens in mid-September. A British play imported by Producers Richard Aldrich and Richard Myers, the show tried out with some success on the straw-hat circuits this summer...
Galen Drake Show (Sat. 9:15 a.m., CBS). Guest: Tallulah Bankhead...
...cast really stand out. Pippa Scott, playing Frytania, is the Tallulah Bankhead of Bad Fairies, angular and wicked, with a fearsome bit of makeup to suit her evil soul. Slugging it out with the Bad Fairly is Weady Robertson as Beauty, who is the apogee of sweetness and light. Miss Robertson is marvelous in an extremely difficult part, since it is so much more difficult to portray Good than Evil...