MISS BANKHEAD
TALLULAH — MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY, by ' Tallulah Bankhead; Victor Gollancz. English price, 16/-. EAD Miss Bankhead’s radio talk ridiculing Dewey when he stood against Truman for the Presidency and you may feel there is a. soupcon of bias
in Mr. Truman’s tribute to Tallulah as "undoubtedly the most interesting book I’ve had in my hands since I have been President of the United States," but you will probably share his feelings when he declares: "I haven’t been able to put it down." There is really only one Tallulah, and she is as much at home putting Senator McCarthy and Louis B. Mayer in their places, all in one page, as acting in a play or a film, drinking a slipperful of wine at the Ritz-or doing a cartwheel; and if her story includes a good deal of the sort of thing that can be found in any theatrical biography, it is sufficiently her story to make a vastly entertaining and _ extraordinarily . outspoken and honest book. With all the energy she has tossed about off-stage (she suffers from anaemia, too), some people in this part of the world may not know that professionally she was very much more than the star of a few not very outstanding films. She was also in Lifeboat (remember?), and she had a big reputation on the London and New
York stage.
F.A.
J.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 727, 19 June 1953, Page 13
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228MISS BANKHEAD New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 727, 19 June 1953, Page 13
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