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Lugar y fecha de nacimiento. Tallulah Bankhead (1903 - 1968) Actress Born: January 31, 1903, Huntsville, AL Died: 1968 One of the American theater's most brilliant and legendary actresses, she was the daughter of the late Speaker of the House of Representatives William Brockman Bankhead. She received a strict convent education, but after winning a local beauty contest at the age of 15, she went to New York and made her stage debut at the Bijou Theater in Squab Farm. After playing a variety of stage roles and two silent films, she went to London in 1923, and for the next seven years she was the toast of the town. Her tempestuous quick-witted personality, uninhibited behavior, and her deep, raspy voice and explosive laughter won her admirers in the British as well as the American theater. In London she appeared in two British films, HIS HOUSE IN ORDER (1928) and A WOMAN'S LAW (1928). Upon returning to the US in 1930, she resumed her stage career and signed a film contract with Paramount. Her film work was intermittent and on the whole less memorable than her stage work. She was cited by New York Film Critics for her performancein Alfred Hitchcock OCHO A LA DERIVA (1944). Among her stage triumphs were The Little Foxes (1939). The Skin of Our Teeth (Drama Critics Award, 1943), and Private Lives (1947). She was married at one time to actor John Emery.
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