Tallulah Bankhead
Tallulah Brockman Bankhead (January 31, 1902 – December 12, 1968) was an American actress of the stage and screen. Bankhead was a member of the Brockman Bankhead family, a prominent Alabama political family; her grandfather and uncle were U.S. Senators and her father served as an 11-term member of Congress, the final two as Speaker of the House of Representatives. Tallulah's support of liberal causes such as civil rights broke with the tendency of the Southern Democrats to support a more typically aligned agenda, and she often opposed her own family publicly.
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| Full name at birth | Tallulah Brockman Bankhead
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| Claim to fame | Lifeboat
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| Date of birth | 31 January 1902
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| Place of birth | Huntsville, Alabama, USA
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| Date of death | 12 December 1968
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| Age | 66 (age at death)
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| Place of death | New York City, New York, USA
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| Cause of death | Pneumonia & Influenza
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| Resting place | Saint Paul's Churchyard, Kent, Maryland
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| Occupation | Actress
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| Height | 5' 3" (160 cm)
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| Distinctive feature | Deep, Husky Voice
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| Pets | Winston - a lion
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| University | Mary Baldwin University, Staunton. Virginia
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- She was said to be the inspiration for the character of Cruella De Vil in Walt Disney's One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961).
- Member of the Algonquin roundtable.
- Screen, stage, radio, and television actress.
- In 1949, Proctor and Gamble launched a radio advertising campaign for its Prell shampoo, using a jingle and the character "Tallulah The Tube". Miss Bankhead was so closely identified by her first name that she sued, eventually settling out of court.
- Marlon Brando, who co-starred with her in the play "The Eagle Has Two Heads" in the mid-1940s, said that Bankhead was primarily a personality actor--that is, someone who did not have developed acting skills but got by on the basis of their personality. Brando believed that she could have been a great actress and a major movie star if she hadn't been addicted to sex and alcohol.
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