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Tallulah Bankhead
Tallulah Brockman Bankhead 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). She also had a brief but successful career on radio and made appearances on television. In all, Bankhead amassed nearly 300 film, stage, television and radio roles during her career. She was post…
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entertainment · American actress (1902–1968) · television actor · film actor · autobiographer · stage actor · actor · also Tallulah Bankhead, Bankhead
Born 31 January 1902 · Died 12 December 1968 · Q255815
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2026· 2 entries
“The judges? Orville and Wilbur Wright.”
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2024· 1 entry
San Diego Union-Tribune: Roustabouts’ ‘Looped’ revives the outrageous silver screen and stage star Tallulah Bankhead
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2021· 1 entry
The Cheat Sheet: Both ‘Cruella’ Characters Were Inspired by Tallulah Bankhead
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2020· 3 entries
insider.si.edu: Tallulah Bankhead
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Town & Country: Tallulah Bankhead Had One of Hollywood's Great Jewelry Collections
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Yahoo: Tallulah Bankhead Was One of Hollywood's Most Unconventional Movie Stars
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2010· 1 entry
Women's Wear Daily: In the Loop: Valerie Harper Tackles Tallulah Bankhead
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1981· 1 entry
Awarded Alabama Women's Hall of Fame (1981).
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1980· 1 entry
The building was placed on the National Register of Historic Places
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1972· 1 entry
And the Alabama Women's Hall of Fame in 1981
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1968· 6 entries
Died 1968-12-12.
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“The only thing I regret about my past ts the length of it. If I had it to live over again I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.”
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“I was raped in our driveway when I was eleven. … You know darling, it was a terrible experience because we had all that gravel.”
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“I was raped in a driveway when I was eleven. … It was a terrible experience because we had all that gravel.”
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“Variant: Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don't have time.”
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“Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don't have the time.”
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1956· 2 entries
Bankhead appeared as Blanche DuBois (a character inspired by her) in a revival of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire (1947)
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Playing the truth game with Tennessee Williams, she confessed, "I'm 54, and I wish always, always, for death
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1953· 1 entry
Bankhead was enticed into appearing in a stage act at the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas
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1952· 1 entry
And Hubert Humphrey in 1968, if her original pick failed to win the nomination
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1950· 1 entry
In an effort to cut into the rating leads of The Jack Benny Program and The Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy Show, which had jumped from NBC radio to CBS radio the previous season, NBC spent millions over the two season
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1944· 1 entry
Alfred Hitchcock cast her as cynical journalist Constance Porter in her most successful film, both critically and commercially, Lifeboat
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1942· 1 entry
As well as a Variety award in The Little Foxes and Skin
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1941· 2 entries
“You can definitely quote me as saying there will be no plans for a remarriage.”
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Bankhead filed for divorce in Reno, Nevada, in May 1941.
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1934· 1 entry
Bankhead had an affair with the artist Rex Whistler who, according to his biographer Anna Thomasson, lost his virginity to her at the age of 29
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1933· 1 entry
While performing in Jezebel, Bankhead nearly died following a five-hour emergency hysterectomy due to gonorrhea, which she claimed she had contracted from either Gary Cooper or George Raft
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1932· 2 entries
Controversy arose over an interview that she gave to Motion Picture magazine, in which she complained that she had gone too long without an affair:
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Bankhead starred opposite Robert Montgomery in Faithless
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1931· 1 entry
But Hollywood success eluded her in her first four films of the 1930s
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1929· 1 entry
Which is considered one of his greatest pieces
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1928· 1 entry
Was honored as one of the 10 most remarkable women in London
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1924· 2 entries
And 1928 in order to visit her family and to place her vote in person
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When she played Amy in Sidney Howard's They Knew What They Wanted
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1923· 1 entry
Made her debut on the London stage at Wyndham's Theatre
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1919· 1 entry
After roles in three other silent films, When Men Betray (1918), Thirty a Week (1918), and The Trap (1919), Bankhead made her stage debut in The Squab Farm at the Bijou Theatre in New York
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1912· 1 entry
Both girls were enrolled in the Convent of the Sacred Heart in Manhattanville, New York
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1902· 2 entries
In Huntsville, Alabama, to William Brockman Bankhead and Adelaide Eugenia "Ada" Bankhead (née Sledge); her great-great-grandfather, James Bankhead (1738–1799) was born in Ulster, Ireland, and settled in South Carolina
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Born 1902-01-31.
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