Word: tallulah
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...something that means God to you." But the character of Flora Goforth, the rich, raffish ex-Follies girl dying in her Italian mountaintop villa, has lost fire. When Hermione Baddeley played Flora, the dark power of death was as chilling as her nighttime screams. The second Mrs. Goforth, Tallulah Bankhead, seems to regard death as part of the servant problem, a petty retainer whom she can sack with a throaty rumble of brandy-voiced regality. Perhaps actressing is a better word for her performance than acting...
...been quite a year. Freshman confusion notwithstanding, the University was a pretty lively place in those days--back when Tallulah Bankhead told the undergraduates that drama must never be censored, or when the Student Council made its official pronouncement, entered on record for posterity, against the gentle art of goalpost rioting...
Ogunquit, Me., Ogunquit Playhouse: Here Today, with Tallulah Bankhead and Estelle Winwood...
...United States Steel Hour (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Tallulah Bankhead in A Man for Oona, the story of a mother's droll search for a husband for her daughter...
Certain actors deserve much better than this show. David Rawle's Mama Tia, for example, proves overpoweringly that men can do anything better than women. Mama Tia has a great Amazon's body and a Tallulah Bankhead voice, and watching her bump and grind out a twisty number called "Razzle-Dazzle" is clearly the evening's treat. Rawle's voice, his enormous toothy smile, and his big cynical eyelids allow him to deliver the flattest sort of lines in a devastatingly funny manner; and he props up whole scenes simply by his presence...