Bankhead, Tallulah

Tallulah Bankhead headlined NBC's The Big Show, a ninety-minute weekly radio extravaganza that aired from 1950 to 1952. On the New York Stage, she originated the roles of Regina Giddens in Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes and of Sabina in Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth. She also starred in such Paramount films as My Sin, Faithless, The Devil and the Deep, and Thunder Below. She won a New York Film Critics Circle Award for her leading role in Alfred Hitchcock's Lifeboat (1944). In 1965 she appeared in her last movie, a British film titled Fanatic (Die, Die, My Darling! in U.S. releas...