Tallulah Bankhead and Fredric March in My Sin, 1931
Robert Montgomery and Tallulah Bankhead for Faithless, 1932
Tallulah Bankhead, 1920s
happy birthday Tallulah Brockman Bankhead (31 January 1902 - December 12, 1968)
She brought to mind the gallant, maniacal Mad Hopes, the obsessed Royal Family of Broadway - all of the fiercely desiring, fiercely living desperadoes, male and female, of theatre, of history, of life. She may be mad. But she is serious about it. She may be without a soul. She is not without a heart. She may make mock of lovers as dead to her as the dead yesterdays. She would never make mock of love. Nor of life. And if life or love make mock of her, she will answer back with an ironic laugh and a bawdy phrase - and tears in her heart. - Gladys Hall in Motion Picture, September 1932
“There was the time Tallulah went to Midnight Mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral one Christmas Eve. She was already lit up more than the Christmas trees, so when the bishop proceeded down the aisle in his finest vestments swinging a censer full of burning incense, through very bleary eyes, Tallulah took one look at him and shouted ‘Dahling, your dress is divine, but your purse is on fire!’”
Talulah Bankhead, September 1951
Tallulah Bankhead photographed by Clarence Sinclair Bull
Tallulah Bankhead photographed by Clarence Sinclair Bull, August 1932
Faithless (dir. Harry Beaumont, 1932)
Tallulah Bankhead, 1932
Tallulah Bankhead, photographed by Clarence Sinclair Bull, 1932.
Robert Montgomery and Tallulah Bankhead in Faithless, 1932
“It’s the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.”
Tallulah Bankhead