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...Bette Davis and Janet Gaynor waiting to be picked off as partners. On the walls are gay murals by the theater's top scene designers-Jo Mielziner, Donald Oenslager, Raoul Pène du Bois, Gertrude Lawrence, Eddie Cantor, the dancing De Marcos, the Quiz Kids with Tallulah Bankhead as Quizmaster, are part of the endless floor show. The food is good, and Producer Brock Pemberton, Novelist Carl Van Vechten, Actor Sam Jaffe are among the busboys. And the whole thing is free...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Substitute for Mother | 4/6/1942 | See Source »

Marriage Revealed. Eugenia Bankhead, 40, sister of Actress Tallulah; and Marine Corps Sergeant William D. Sprouse; she for the seventh time;* near Montgomery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 16, 1942 | 2/16/1942 | See Source »

Clash by Night (by Clifford Odets; produced by Billy Rose). The husband, the lodger, the dissatisfied wife, turn up once again, to provide the season's biggest disappointment-a play by Odets with Tallulah Bankhead as star. As the wife, Tallulah has her fine sultry and tigerish moments, but seems out of her milieu-much more like the daughter of the late Speaker of the House of Representatives than the wife of a bohunk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Jan. 5, 1942 | 1/5/1942 | See Source »

...Tallulah Bankhead went to the hospital with flu the night she opened in a new Clifford Odets show, Clash by Night, in Philadelphia. She was pronounced "much better" after a day in an oxygen tent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Words, Words | 12/1/1941 | See Source »

Bette Davis is no Tallulah Bankhead as the lead-villainess, "Regina Giddons," probably because it's impossible to play essentially the same role in a dozen movies without some decline of conviction and zest. The supporting parts are superbly rendered, many by members of the original Broadway company. Herbert Marshall is, for once, not miscast, and performs admirably as the tragic dying husband and prey of "Regina" and her brother-vultures...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 10/11/1941 | See Source »

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