![]() ![]() Also tells about problems with self-exploitation and her death in 1968 of pneumonia. Tells about a successful revival of Noel Coward's "Private Lives" & her failure in a revival of Tennessee Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire" because of the maliciousness of the caddies. And as it always was the case with Hitchcock and his actors, he got the best of her and this. Tells about her country home & entourage of young homosexuals, the caddies. Tallulah Bankhead, who was an established theater leading lady in London and New York and about whom Marlon Brando later regretfully said that she had hardly had a chance to show her real talent, was forty-two when she appeared in Lifeboat (1944). In 1942 she had her 2nd finest role as Sabina in Thornton Wilder's "The Skin of Our Teeth." She made 3 films in the '40's & won the NY Film Critics award for best actress in "Lifeboat" directed by Hitchcock. Tells about personal appearances during the war and raising funds for the USO. Tells about tour with the play & her friendship with Eugenia Rawls. In 1939 she got the finest role of her career, Regina Giddens in "The Little Foxes" by Lillian Hellman. They failed miserably in their first effort, a lavish production of "Antony and Cleopatra." The fault was placed on Tallulah who received the worst notices of her career. In 1936 she married an actor, John Emery and decided the two would become an acting team on the order of the Lunts. The play failed but Tallulah was praised She appeared in several other plays, none of which were very successful. She opened in "Forsaking All Others", a drawing-room comedy by Edward Barry Roberts & Frank Cavett. She went to Hollywood but returned to NY and Broadway shortly. The studio decided to sell her as a second Marlene Dietrich and this was a mistake. Paramount Pictures offered her a contract for 5 pictures at $50,000 a film. In 1931 she left London where she had been a sensation for 8 yrs for NY. PROFILE of the late actress, Tallulah Bankhead. ![]()
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