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    Tallulah Bankhead

    American actress

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  1. Tallulah Brockman Bankhead (January 31, 1902 – December 12, 1968) was an American actress. Primarily an actress of the stage, Bankhead also appeared in several prominent films including an award-winning performance in Alfred Hitchcock 's Lifeboat (1944).

  2. On December 12, 1968, Tallulah Bankhead died at age 66 of pneumonia in her beloved New York City. While she made most of her fame on the stages of the world, the film industry and its history became richer because of her talent and her very colorful personality.

  3. May 25, 2021 · This was theater legend Tallulah Bankhead, whose name sat atop Will Hays’s famous Doom Book, a bound volume for studios listing performers “unsuitable for the public.” Davis’s satirical animation...

  4. May 29, 2024 · Tallulah Bankhead, American actress who was as famous for her personal life as for her theatrical achievements. Her notable stage credits included The Rope Dancers, They Knew What They Wanted, The Little Foxes, and The Skin of Our Teeth. Learn more about Bankhead’s life and career.

  5. May 8, 2005 · Of the theatrical greats of their day, only Tallulah Bankhead, who died in 1968, has not gone gentle into oblivion. Since her death, there have been seven biographies, the latest, “Tallulah!...

  6. On December 12, 1968, Tallulah Bankhead died at age 66 of pneumonia in her beloved New York City. While she made most of her fame on the stages of the world, the film industry and its history became richer because of her talent and her very colorful personality.

  7. Jul 7, 2023 · Her beauty, wit, outrageous behavior (such as shouting obscenities at Nazis during a boxing match in Germany between German boxer Max Schmeling and fellow Alabamian Joe Louis ), numerous relationships, and daring costumes made her a notorious celebrity, the epitome of the freewheeling Jazz Age.

  8. Sep 29, 1972 · Part 1 of Brendan Gill’s classic Profile of the legendary film and stage star Tallulah Bankhead, exploring her Alabama upbringing, the garden parties, which inspired F. Scott Fitzgerald’s ...

  9. American actress who eschewed formal training, built a career on the stage, and dipped into films, but eventually eclipsed her own career with the force of her public personality. Name variations: (childhood nickname) Dutch; (adult nicknames) Tallu, Lulas, Die Donner (the thunder). Pronunciation: Tuh-LOO-luh BANK-hed.

  10. Jan 31, 2020 · Tallulah Bankhead, perhaps best known for her Broadway stints in Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes and Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth, was born January...

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