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Tallulah: My Autobiography
Biography ] Performing Arts Her father and her uncle were U.S. congressmen. Her grandfather was a U.S. senator. Although born to privilege in Alabama and groomed in a convent school, Tallulah Bankhead resolved not to be just another southern belle.
Quickly she rose to the top and became an acclaimed actress of London's West End and on the Broadway stage. Her performances in ...more
Quickly she rose to the top and became an acclaimed actress of London's West End and on the Broadway stage. Her performances in ...more
Paperback
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341 pages
Published
July 7th 2004
by University Press of Mississippi
(first published 1951)
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An autobiography. Not the best, not the worst. I was bored at times. It was a bit like a listing of events.
Tallulah was bawdy and capricious and brash. She seemed to downplay each of the major events in her life, almost as if to apologize for them. Maybe the tamer version is the true version. Who knows. I'm not above admitting that I prefer the picture in my mind to the watered down version she purported to be. Isn't fantasy usually preferable to reality?
Tallulah was bawdy and capricious and brash. She seemed to downplay each of the major events in her life, almost as if to apologize for them. Maybe the tamer version is the true version. Who knows. I'm not above admitting that I prefer the picture in my mind to the watered down version she purported to be. Isn't fantasy usually preferable to reality?
As you might expect from an actress for such a panache for extravagance, Ms. Bankhead can be a bit long-winded in her autobiography. There were some very interesting stories, and more than a handful of moments that made me laugh out loud (literally)...but there were just as many passages that bored me to tears. Someone else made the comment that the book is written as if she's telling stories at a party, and that is spot on. There are many parts where she goes off on tangents for pages, before r
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This was originally at 35 cent paperback, 1959. She was quite a character!
Hamstrung by homespun digressions about long-lost relatives and riddled with off-putting inside jokes, this autobiography is a testament to the immensity of Tallulah's ego. This is fine; she was famous for it. But it's a little much. I feel like if her authorial intent was to cement her immortality, she succeeded: the book of her life never ended because I never finished it. Bravo, Tallulah!
This was a fascinating read, not a scholarly bio but interesting to read about a gal who hails from the south and becomes a name on the entertainment and social set in NYC. Who could not be fascinated by a woman named Tallulah Bankhead?
Told as if she's at a cocktail party and sharing stories. Some funny stuff. She manages to be somewhat self-effacing. Tough job for an actress.
This was first published in 1952 and went into another edition in 1953 and I think 1957. I read it in 1957.
This book is a fun read. She is a terrific wordsmith, and she had some wonderful stories.
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