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    Tallulah Bankhead

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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 films including an award-winning performance in Alfred Hitchcock 's Lifeboat (1944).

  2. 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...

  3. 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.

  4. Aug 2, 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. Tallulah Bankhead was one of the rare silent film stars that successfully made the transition to talkies, then radio and television. She was a fixture on Broadway. Her most notable "The Little Foxes" won her the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award and repeated with a second award for "The Skin of Our Teeth".

  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. Tallulah Bankhead, the star whose offstage performances often rivaled her roles in the theater, film and television, died at St. Luke's Hospital yesterday of pneumonia, complicated by emphysema.

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