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...story goes that Tallulah fell for Actor John Emery because he reminded her of John Barrymore, o-n whom she had had a girlish crush. In any case, she knew, immediately on seeing him at a summer playhouse in 1937, that she wanted him. She rushed backstage afterward, threw her arms around his neck and kissed him. As Emery recalls it: "She damn near knocked my tonsils down my throat...
Sound & Fury. For all her garish conduct, Tallulah is capable of great charm, dignity and kindness. During the filming of A Royal Scandal, an older actor blew his lines in one scene 85 times, but Tallulah never made the slightest show of impatience. Her genuine respect for age is linked to her reverence for her parents, whose pictures are always on her dressing-room table. Last year she spent 20 minutes getting a long-distance call through to her gardener so that she could wish him a merry Christmas. Preposterously openhanded with money and gifts, she is also generous with...
...cyclone called Tallulah, full of sound & fury, pulls wildly at everything around it, but it has a vacuum core of insecurity and loneliness. Behind its protective bluster and bombast, Tallulah's loneliness makes curious demands. She cannot sleep without a radio blaring near by; turn it off and she wakes up. When a power failure stilled her radio in the country, she insisted on keeping a guest up all night, talking, until the electricity came on again. She hates to be alone; she almost never...
Like the woman herself, Tallulah's theatrical style is a little more brightly colored than life, in the grand manner that makes modern naturalism seem flat and bloodless. "The boldness of her ease upon the stage," Critic John Mason Brown once wrote, "is on occasion as uncomfortable to watch as it is to see a guest making himself too much at home in another person's house...
...actress, Tallulah is a hard worker and a "quick study." Her portrayal of the down-South Borgia in The Little Foxes was a fine piece of serious acting, and, without letting herself go completely...