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Tallulah : the life and times of a leading lady / Joel Lobenthal

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Regan Books, c2004Edition: 1st edDescription: xiii, 577 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0060394358 (alk. paper)
  • 9780060394356 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 791.4302/8/092 22
  • B 22
LOC classification:
  • PN2287.B17 L63 2004
Summary: In 1918, a 15-year-old Tallulah left her Alabama political family and fled to New York City to become a star. Four years later she was a society fixture and the most popular actress of London's West End. By the time she returned to America in the 1930s she was infamous for throwing 3-day parties and bedding her favorite actors and actresses, Drawn from previously untapped information from Scotland Yard and the FBI and having spent 25 years researching Bankhead's life, Joel Lobenthal tells her unadulterated story as told to him in exclusive interviews with 150 of her closest friends, enemies, lovers and employees
Item type: Book
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 559-563) and index

In 1918, a 15-year-old Tallulah left her Alabama political family and fled to New York City to become a star. Four years later she was a society fixture and the most popular actress of London's West End. By the time she returned to America in the 1930s she was infamous for throwing 3-day parties and bedding her favorite actors and actresses, Drawn from previously untapped information from Scotland Yard and the FBI and having spent 25 years researching Bankhead's life, Joel Lobenthal tells her unadulterated story as told to him in exclusive interviews with 150 of her closest friends, enemies, lovers and employees

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