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Tallulah Brockman Bankhead (January 31, 1902 – December 12, 1968) was an American actress. Primarily an actress of the stage, Bankhead also appeared in several prominent films including an award-winning performance in Alfred Hitchcock 's Lifeboat (1944).
On December 12, 1968, Tallulah Bankhead died at age 66 of pneumonia in her beloved New York City. While she made most of her fame on the stages of the world, the film industry and its history became richer because of her talent and her very colorful personality.
May 25, 2021 · Blasted in Hollywood for “moral turpitude,” Tallulah Bankhead never became quite as famous as Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, or Joan Crawford. Yet Bankhead’s alter ego may outlast them all.
May 8, 2005 · Of the theatrical greats of their day, only Tallulah Bankhead, who died in 1968, has not gone gentle into oblivion. Since her death, there have been seven biographies, the latest, “Tallulah! The...
May 29, 2024 · Tallulah Bankhead (born January 31, 1902, Huntsville, Alabama, U.S.—died December 12, 1968, New York, New York) was an American actress who was as famous for her personal life as for her theatrical achievements.
Tallulah Bankhead. Actress: Lifeboat. Tallulah Brockman Bankhead was born on January 31, 1902 in Huntsville, Alabama. Her father was a mover and shaker in the Democratic Party who served as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from June 4, 1936, to September 16, 1940.
Jul 7, 2023 · Her beauty, wit, outrageous behavior (such as shouting obscenities at Nazis during a boxing match in Germany between German boxer Max Schmeling and fellow Alabamian Joe Louis ), numerous relationships, and daring costumes made her a notorious celebrity, the epitome of the freewheeling Jazz Age.
Sep 29, 1972 · Part 1 of Brendan Gill’s classic Profile of the legendary film and stage star Tallulah Bankhead, exploring her Alabama upbringing, the garden parties, which inspired F. Scott Fitzgerald’s ...
Sep 1, 2015 · The incomparable Tallulah Bankhead was born in Alabama in 1902 to a father who would become the Speaker of the House of Representatives from 1936 until 1940. At the age of eleven she was raped. At fifteen she ran away from home and before long was the toast of Broadway.
Bankhead, Tallulah (1902–1968)American actress who eschewed formal training, built a career on the stage, and dipped into films, but eventually eclipsed her own career with the force of her public personality.
