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...Tallulah's contract gives her more than money: there are special riders to make sure that she runs the show. She gets the right to pass on the hiring of the play's directors, players, company manager, stage manager, pressagent and costumer. One clause commits the management to give her footlights, which have been going out of fashion on the New York stage. Tallulah insists on them because they offset overhead lights that throw unflattering shadows...
...some of Broadway's top producers and directors swear they will never again have any truck with her. (Says one: "The woman is constitutionally unable to fit harmoniously into a group effort.") Mostly, these people are merely unwilling to follow the one tested formula for getting along with Tallulah: give in to her. The formula seems to work for Producer John C. Wilson; he also put on her last show, Jean Cocteau's The Eagle Has Two Heads, a bad play that tempted Tallulah because it gave her a 17-minute monologue and a chance...
...quarreled with almost every producer, director and playwright who has crossed her path in recent years. Oddly, the bitterest feuds have involved her best plays. She does not speak to The Little Foxes' Producer-Director Herman Shumlin and Playwright Lillian Hellman (both leftists whose rows with Tallulah were political as well as professional). She does not speak to The Skin of Our Teeth's Producer Michael Myerberg and Director Elia Kazan. Shumlin will not even discuss her. Billy Rose, who starred her in Clifford Odets' Clash By Night, is more reticent about Tallulah than...
...Tallulah herself is responsible for circulating many of the spiciest tales. When Elsa Maxwell noted that her leading man in The Dancers did not seem very convincing in his love scenes, Tallulah lowered her sultry lids and purred: "Perhaps not on the stage . . ." When it seemed that a certain man was trying to snub her at London's Savoy, legend has it that she called: "Hello, dahling, I'm sorry you don't recognize me with my clothes on." Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey, the expert on sex statistics, recently tried to get an interview with...
During her Broadway apprenticeship, back in 1918, Tallulah was regarded as a "most beautiful girl." Her hair came down to her knees, thick as a cloak. She had not begun to drink or smoke. ("I was a completely good girl in those days.") "But she was never simple," says Actress Estelle Winwood, one of her oldest friends. "She was as sophisticated then...