The first time Eileen Bowman saw Tallulah Bankhead she was “probably 8 or 9” years old and watching a rerun of “The Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Comedy Hour,” a short-lived TV sequel to the classic “I Love ...

Tallulah Bankhead once said, “Say anything about me, darling, as long as it isn’t boring.” The Roustabouts Theatre Company rose to that challenge with “Looped.” It is a delightfully funny play ...

Looped tells the story of actress Tallulah Bankhead, the original celebrity bad girl who enters a film studio session to re-record (or "loop") one line of dialogue for her final film, Die, Die My ...

For more than 25 years, San Diego actress Eileen Bowman has hilariously played numerous kooky and colorful characters in musicals and comedies around town. But in “Looped,” which the Roustabouts ...

This is James Taylor with Theatre Talk. Lillian Hellman's tart, southern shocker The Little Foxes first appeared in Los Angeles in January of 1941. It ran for a week at the now demolished Biltmore ...

She came from a prominent Alabama political family — her grandfather and uncle were U.S. senators; her father, William Brockman Bankhead, served as Speaker of the House. After winning a beauty contest ...

Midgie Purvis (by Mary Chase) presents Tallulah Bankhead as an oddball society matron who masquerades as a very old lady. Young-hearted Midgie Purvis has long embarrassed her family as a kind of ...

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