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When her father was elected Majority Leader of the House of Representatives last week, Tallulah Bankhead was the most twittery actress in all New York. She plucked up a telephone, called Washington, chirped: "Congratulations, Daddy, congratulations!" And when Majority Leader William Brockman Bankhead was carried to the Naval Hospital with a cold and indigestion day before the 74th Congress opened, Daughter Tallulah flew to the Capital, ran to his bedside. Said she as she left his room: "Daddy will be all right. I talked a blue streak and it may not have helped him any. . . . Daddy just...
That Forsaking All Others should be offered as a self-sufficient comedy of manners is a reflection less on Hollywood than on that portion of the public which it will delight. Adapted from an unsuccessful play in which Tallulah Bankhead performed (TIME, March 13, 1933), produced with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's finest trimmings, it contains a few bits of expert comedy by Charles Butterworth. Worst shot: Dill Todd giving Mary Clay a ride on the handlebars of a borrowed bicycle, landing in a pigpen...
...sent a letter to the Texas delegation in the House urging them to vote for their colleague and his political protege. In addition two other serious contenders for the Speakership were still in the running: loud, rambunctious John Elliott Rankin of Tupelo, Miss., and William B. Bankhead (father of Tallulah and the Cotton Control Act) of Jasper...
...ladies, admitted that Manhattan's Mrs. Harrison Williams, winner of last year's title, had again topped many a private list. Other U. S. winners: Editor Eleanor Medill Patterson of the Washington Herald; Mrs. Eleanor Wilson McAdoo. divorced wife of California's Senator McAdoo; Mrs. Frank Jay Gould ; Actresses Tallulah Bankhead & Ina Claire...
Dark Victory (by George Brewer Jr. & Bertram Bloch; Alexander McKaig, producer). At least one star fell on Alabama when Tallulah Bankhead was born at Huntsville 32 years ago. Without tarrying long on the stage of her native land, this daughter of a Congressman and niece of a Senator went to England where she played in a dozen successes, settled in a luxurious little house in Farm Street, drove a flashing green Bentley. She was publicly and privately idolized by enthusiastic followers who took her for the personification of Sex. Last year Miss Bankhead came home to act in a featherweight...