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Notorious Alabama actress Tallulah Bankhead, the daughter of U.S. Representative Will Bankhead, triumphed in the Regina role on Broadway. The response to the play, itself, was so favorable that Lillian became the "most famous woman playwright in the world" according to festival guest Deborah Martinson. In his book about Miss Bankhead, entitled TALLULAH!, festival guest Joel Lobenthal describes a "Foxes" incident that sent Lillian into a rare panic.
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Actress Tallulah Bankhead was as famous for her tumultuous personal life as she was for her film career. Bankhead became a household name in 1924 when she played the waitress Amy in Sydney Howard's 'They Knew What They Wanted,' which went on to win the Pulitzer Prize. Here, she is photographed by Nickolas Muray in the January 1927 Vanity Fair.
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Tallulah's flamboyant public personality may be the most fully realized and memorable character Bankhead ever played. She became famous for her snappy repartee, candid quotes, and scandalous lifestyle. She was disposed to remove her clothes and chat in the nude. Overfond of Kentucky bourbon and wild parties, she was a lady baritone who called everybody "Dahling." A classic for the serious collector: framed photo of Tallulah Bankhead, (11 1/2" x 13" overall) with signature in her own unmistakable handwriting.
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Stage and screen actress Tallulah Bankhead dies at the age of 65. Although few of Bankhead's plays and films were critical successes, Bankhead's unrestrained personality, boisterous laugh, and irreverent behavior won her many fans in the United States and England.
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Bankhead ... appeared as Blanche DuBois in a revival of Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire (1956), but reviews were poor. She received a Tony Award nomination for her performance of a bizarre 50-year-old mother in Mary Chase's Midgie Purvis (1961). Her last theatrical appearance was in another Williams play, The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore (1963). Although she received good notices for her last performances, her career as one of the greats of the American stage was coming to an end.
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Bankhead and Hellman clashed during the Broadway run of the play. Lillian claimed to be unnerved by Tallulah's "scarlet" reputation. Bankhead disliked Hellman's support of Russia against Nazi Germany and accused her of being a Communist. That accusation and Bankhead's high-maintenance tantrums did not sit well with Hellman. After the curtain came down on "Foxes," Hellman and Bankhead would not speak for thirty years.
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