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Life Beat, at the Kenmore, is one of Alfred Hitchcock's best. Tallulah Bankhead is characteristically emotional. Also on the twin bill Gregory Peck stars in The Keys of the Kingdom...
When Hungarian-born Zsa Zsa Gabor refused to co-star with her husband Cinemactor George Sanders on the Tallulah Bankhead radio show (because the lines "would have made my marriage look ridiculous"), Sanders took the afternoon off to pack his bags and leave his Hollywood home. Said he: "My wife asked me to get out, and I am in the process of doing so. I have been discarded like a squeezed lemon." For reporters covering the spat, Zsa Zsa (rhymes with maharajah) had a simple statement: "A woman has the right to quarrel with her husband in the afternoon because...
Unquestionably, the brightest part of the show is, Nita Talbot's portrayal of Gloria, the sexy dumb blonde living in an upstairs apartment. The only way to describe Gloria is to imagine, it possible, a composite of Judy Holiday's Billie Dawn and Tallulah Bankhead. Miss Talbot's deadpan delivery of the brightest lines in the play and her wonderful sense of timing stamp her as the outstanding performer in a capable cast. Anne Jackson as Coralie is light and easy to look at; Hugh Reilly as the sophisticated and suffering mate comes through with the proper nonchalance...
...Show (Sun. 6:30 p.m., NBC). Tallulah Bankhead & guests: Bob Hope, Groucho Marx, George Sanders, Evelyn Knight...
...admit of farce and feeling both. But beyond its muddled tone, Glad Tidings suffers from the author's clumsy, indelicate touch. The rewards, of both writing and acting, are fairly momentary. Though Melvyn Douglas is quietly wry and down-to-earth, Signe Hasso is eruptive enough to make Tallulah Bankhead seem demure...