Tallulah Bankhead
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Tallulah Bankhead , 1903-68, American actress, b. Huntsville, Ala.; daughter of William Brockman Bankhead . After her debut in 1918, Bankhead had great success on the London stage, where she appeared (1923-30) in 16 plays. She was particularly acclaimed for her performance on Broadway as Regina in The Little Foxes (1939) and, in film, as a shipwrecked journalist in Lifeboat (1944). In the latter, she brought to the role the wit, sophisticated aplomb, and uninhibited behavior that made her a legend.
Bibliography: See her autobiography (1952); memoir by E. Rawls (1979); biographies by B. Gill (1972), L. Israel (1972), K. Tunney (1973), and J. Lobenthal (2004).
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