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Photographer: Allen C. Browne
Taken: July 22, 2017
Caption: Tallulah Bankhead
Additional Description: This 1930 portrait of Tallulah Bankhead (1902-1968) by Augustus John hangs in the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC.

“Renowned for her sultry voice and languorous sophistication, Tallulah Bankhead exuded magnetism ‘a remarkable personality with a remarkable name,’ to one enchanted critic. She performed not only in America but on the London stage, where she was painted by Augustus John: ‘At the time, I was the toast of London and that was some toast, dahling.’ She twice won the New York Drama Critics Award, as Regina in The Little Foxes in 1939, and as Sabina in The Skin of Our Teeth, in 1942. In the late 1940s, Time magazine called her ‘the theater's first personality.’ But her career spanned the media as well: in Hollywood, she notably starred in Hitchcock's Lifeboat (1944); on radio billed as ‘the glamorous, unpredictable Tallulah Bankhead’ she emceed NBC's Sunday-night The Big Show (1950­51). On television, she co-hosted All Star Review and was a popular guest on I Love Lucy and The Jack Benny Show.” — National Portrait Gallery
Submitted: July 24, 2017, by Allen C. Browne of Silver Spring, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p391204
File Size: 1.075 Megabytes

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