Tallulah Bankhead

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Tallulah Bankhead, 1934
photograph by Carl van Vechten , from the Van Vechten Collection of the Library of Congress

Tallulah Brockman Bankhead (born January 31, 1902 in Huntsville , Alabama , † December 12, 1968 in New York ) was an American actress .

Life

Tallulah Brockman Bankhead, daughter of House Speaker William Brockman Bankhead and his wife Adelaide Eugenia Sledge, was named after the town of Tallulah Falls , Georgia , like her paternal grandmother . Bankhead's mother married William Bankhead on January 31, 1900 in Memphis . The two children, Evelyn Eugenia († 1979) and Tallulah were born in 1901 and 1902. The mother died of blood poisoning three weeks after Tallulah was born . Most of the daughters then grew up with their paternal grandparents. The bankheads were a well-known, politically very active family, their grandfather and uncle were US senators .

Tallulah, who showed hyperactivity as a child , was sent to a convent school at her father's request. In 1918, after winning a photography competition, she moved to New York and played theater there. After five unsuccessful years she went to England, where she was able to achieve the long-awaited success in the play "The Dancers". In 1931 she signed a film contract with Paramount. Your films there were not financially successful. Tallulah returned to the United States in 1933. In 1936 she applied intensively for the role of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind , which ultimately went to Vivien Leigh . In 1944 she had her greatest film success with Alfred Hitchcock's film The Lifeboat .

In 1950 Bankhead had her first name "Tallulah" protected after a shampoo company used it. In 1951, she fired her secretary Evyleen Cronin after discovering that she had embezzled a large amount of money, but did not report her. The latter retaliated by revealing details of Bankhead's personal life regarding alcohol, drugs, and sex, many of which turned out to be untrue. From 1956, Bankhead's career began to take on grotesque features. Her years of drug addiction took its toll and led to a deterioration in her motor skills . After learning that she had emphysema , she quit smoking and began to withdraw from public life.

On May 14, 1968, she met Paul McCartney and John Lennon on a show during one of her last television appearances . In December 1968, she contracted an Asian flu that did not respond to treatment. Tallulah Bankhead died on December 12, 1968 in St. Luke's Hospital in Manhattan of complications from bilateral pneumonia . She found her final resting place in St. Paul's Kent Churchyard in Chestertown, Maryland .

From 1937 to 1941 Bankhead was married to the actor John Emery (1905-1964).

In the US television series Hollywood from 2020 about homophobia , racism and sexism in the dream factory in the 1940s, which, however, reserves a number of artistic freedoms, Bankhead is embodied in a supporting role by the actress Paget Brewster .

Filmography

  • 1918: Who Loved Him Best
  • 1918: When Men Betray
  • 1918: Thirty A Week
  • 1919: The Trap
  • 1928: His House In Order
  • 1931: Tarnished Lady
  • 1931: My Sin
  • 1931: The Cheat
  • 1932: Thunder Below
  • 1932: Make Me A Star
  • 1932: Devil And The Deep
  • 1932: Faithless
  • 1943: Stage Door Canteen
  • 1944: The lifeboat ( Lifeboat )
  • 1945: Scandal at court ( A Royal Scandal )
  • 1953: Main Street to Broadway
  • 1959: The Boy Who Owned A Melephant
  • 1964: The Dark House (Fanatic)
  • 1966: The Daydreamer
  • 1967: Batman (TV series, two episodes)

Broadway

  • 1918: The Squab Farm
  • 1920: Footloose
  • 1921: Nice People
  • 1922: Everyday
  • 1922: The Exciters
  • 1933: Forsaking All Others
  • 1934: Dark Victory
  • 1935: Rain
  • 1935: Something Gay
  • 1937: Reflected Glory Miss Flood
  • 1937: Antony and Cleopatra
  • 1938: The Circle
  • 1940: The Little Foxes
  • 1941: Clash by Night
  • 1943: The Skin of Our Teeth
  • 1945: Foolish Notion
  • 1947: The Eagle Has Two Heads
  • 1949: Private Lives
  • 1955: Dear Charles
  • 1956: A Streetcar Named Desire
  • 1957: Eugenia Eugenia
  • 1961: Midgie Purvis
  • 1964: The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore

Awards

  • New York Film Critics Circle Awards
    • 1944 Best Actress for Lifeboat
  • Walk of Fame / 1960 Star on the Walk of Fame (Address: 6141 Hollywood Blvd.)

literature

  • Judith Mackrell: Flappers: Six Women of a Dangerous Generation . Macmillan, London 2013
  • Lee Israel: Miss Tallulah Bankhead . WH Allen / Virgin Books, New York 1972, ISBN 0-491-00643-8
  • Tallulah Bankhead: Tallulah . B&T, 1952, ISBN 1-57806-635-2

Web links

Commons : Tallulah Bankhead  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tallulah Bankhead Dies at 65 . In: Middlesboro Daily News . tape 58 , no. 218 , December 13, 1968, pp. 1 (English, news.google.com [accessed April 5, 2013]).
  2. ^ Tallulah Bankhead in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved September 13, 2017 (English).
  3. ^ Tallulah Bankhead: Performer. Retrieved January 15, 2015 (eng).
personal data
SURNAME Bankhead, Tallulah
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bankhead, Tallulah Brockman
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-american actress
DATE OF BIRTH January 31, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Huntsville , Alabama, USA
DATE OF DEATH December 12, 1968
Place of death New York City , USA