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Tallulah Bankhead is born in Huntsville, Alabama. Her mother dies from complications in childbirth. Her father, William B. Bankhead, served as Speaker of the House of Representatives from 1936 to 1940. Her grandfather, John H. Bankhead, was a United States Senator.
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Tallulah Brockman Bankhead was born at Huntsville, Alabama on this day in 1902. Her mother died just three weeks later, and Tallulah and her older sister were raised first by their paternal grandparents and an aunt. The family was heavily political, both her grandfather and an uncle had been senators and her father would be Speaker of the US House later, which meant that an effort was made to bring the girls up as proper Southern ladies, which Tallulah resisted. After a series of religious schools, Tallulah sent a photo to a magazine contest, leading to a short part in a play on Broadway. She spent the rest of her life either acting or acting up, offstage she rarely stopped talking. Despite constant smoking, drugs, and drinking, she made a success on stage, radio, film, and finally television.
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Tallulah Brockman Bankhead was born in Huntsville, Alabama on January 31, 1902, to William Brockman Bankhead and Adelaide Eugenia Sledge. Blood poisoning, a complication of pregnancy, took the life of Adelaide just a few weeks after the birth of her daughter. The Bankheads were a political family; Grandfather John Hollis Bankhead was in Congress for 18 years before being elected to the U.S. Senate, where he served until his death in 1920. Bankhead's father was elected to the House of Representatives in 1916 and went on to become Speaker of the House.
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Bankhead was born on Jan. 31, 1902 in Huntsville. Less than one month after she was born, Bankhead’s mother, Adelaide died from complications of childbirth. Bankhead’s father, William Brockman Bankhead served in the United States House of Representatives and was Speaker of the United States House of Representatives until his death in 1940. President Franklin D. Roosevelt attended his funeral in Jasper, Alabama.
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Bankhead was born in Huntsville, Alabama to William Brockman Bankhead and Adelaide Eugene Sledge, and was named after her maternal grandmother [2]. She has been described as "an extremely homely child", overweight and with a deep, husky voice resulting from chronic bronchitis [2].
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