Tallulah Bankhead

Actress Valerie Harper is set to play Hollywood screen icon Tallulah Bankhead in a Broadway play titled Looped. The play, which previews on February 19, tells the story of Bankhead, whose fame is enduring. She was an internationally-known actress who was called into a sound studio in 1965 to re-record via “loop” a line of dialogue in her last film, Die, Die My Darling. “Southern, but by no means a belle, Ms Bankhead was known for her wild partying and convention-defying exploits that outshone even today’s celebrity bad girls. And given her inebriated state – and inability to loop the [ Read More ] ... Read Full Story

Tallulah Falls     Oceana Falls A super nice place to visit, the trails are pretty nice but some long stairs to get toward the bottom of the gorge..... just a few photo's to share from our venture . . Read Full Story

Lifeboat (1944) Using a story by John Steinbeck as inspiration, Alfred Hitchcock stages a gripping World War II drama by cramming eight survivors of a German torpedo attack into the hull of a tiny lifeboat — among them, a magazine writer (Tallulah Bankhead), a radio operator (Hume Cronyn) and a crazy woman (Heather Angel) clutching the corpse of her dead baby. But the real trouble starts when one of the survivors (Walter Slezak) reveals he’s a Nazi. They certainly don’t make movies like this anymore. An instant classic that one three Oscars. Since I couldn’t find a decent trailer for this one I have ... Read Full Story

Legit News: Bankhead bio-play banks on Broadway -- "Looped," the comedy about Tallulah Bankhead toplined by Valerie Harper, has nailed down a Broadway run. Read Full Story

She was so much more outrageous than I would ever think of being, says Valerie Harper of legendary actress Tallulah Bankhead. ''She would make Rhoda blush, too, I think.'' Rhoda, of course, being Rhoda Morgenstern, the character Harper earned four Emmy Awards playing on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and then on its own spinoff. ''It's a very wonderful comedy,'' says Harper, ''with real emotion and fireworks.'' Based on a real-life event, the play centers around a studio ''looping'' session with Bankhead. An uptight editor is trying to get one line of usable audio from Bankhead. ''It takes all day to get it because ... Read Full Story