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...with the young bill collector is completely lacking in lyric quality and only the primitive element is played. The way in which Miss Humphrey delivers, "I've got to be good--and keep my hands off children," using her lower register and a drunken slur, is strongly reminiscent of Tallulah Bankhead. There is nothing gossamer here...

Author: By Harold Scott, | Title: A Streetcar Named Desire | 7/9/1959 | See Source »

Thunder-throated Actress Tallulah Bankhead, 57, who entered a Manhattan hospital last fortnight for what her physician called "a general checkup," learned what ailed her. Diagnosis: four broken ribs, cracked in a household fall and easily mended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 8, 1959 | 6/8/1959 | See Source »

More often than not, some of the best offstage Broadway humor involves one of the most famed Broadway characters-Tallulah Bankhead. Last week the latest Bankhead story was making the rounds from Lindy's to Sardi's. Tallulah, it seems, was stopped on Fifth Avenue by a Salvation Army lass shaking a tambourine for a holiday handout. Tallulah dipped into her handbag and produced a $50 bill. "Don't even bother to thank me, dahling," she growled as she dropped the bill into the tambourine. "I know what a perfectly ghastly season it's been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BROADWAY: Holiday Handout | 12/15/1958 | See Source »

...TIME'S CHARGE THAT I TRIED TO MANEUVER MYSELF INTO HARRY TRUMAN'S LAP AT A DEMOCRATIC LUNCHEON IS OFFENSIVELY FALSE. I GREETED MR. & MRS. TRUMAN AT HIS REQUEST. TALLULAH BANKHEAD NEW YORK CITY...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 17, 1958 | 11/17/1958 | See Source »

...Well, I see Tallulah Bankhead got into the news again, giving a speech at a Democratic luncheon. If that is the type of luncheon the Dems put on, I'll be forced, in the future, to vote for the other party. FRANK THEKAN Wilmette...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 17, 1958 | 11/17/1958 | See Source »

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