Today is the birthday of Tallulah Bankhead (1902-1968). I’ve always felt a special connection to her because she comes from my family’s hometown of Hunstville, Alabama. There the connection stops: her father was the Speaker of the House (that’s the U.S. House) and she was the granddaughter and niece of Senators.
While she had been a professional actress on the New York stage from the age of sixteen, a London and NY stage star from the age of 21, and later a star of radio and film as well, history has unfairly (though understandably) remembered her mostly for her offstage lifestyle, her huge appetite for booze, drugs, and indiscriminate sex, and her ribald witticisms.
As a mature actress, she created roles like Regina in The Little Foxes (1939), Sabina in The Skin of Our Teeth (1942), and the newspaper lady in Alfred Hitchock’s Lifeboat (1944). Her performance as Amanda in a revival of Noel Coward’s Private Live’s ran nearly two years. And we wrote about her final film Die, Die My Darling (1965) here.
(Travalanche) 
So you’re from Huntsville. I’m from Columbia, Tennessee. it is a small world. I’d like to send you a copy of my play, set in Columbia in 1942.
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well, my dad (and all his people) are from that areas! I was actually born and raised in Rhode Island, thanks to World War 2! But I’d be happy to read your play. I also wrote a play about Columbus, but it was very silly. I’ll send you an e-mail with my address.
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