Tallulah Bankhead Height, Weight, Age, Facts, Biography

Tallulah Bankhead Height, Weight, Age, Facts, Biography

    Tallulah Bankhead Quick InfoHeight 5 ft 2½ in Weight 50 kg Date of Birth January 31, 1902 Zodiac Sign Aquarius Date of Death December 12, 1968

    Tallulah Bankhead was an American stage artist, actor, and voice actor who is regarded as one of the great stage actors of the 20th century. She was a member of the prominent Alabama political family named the Bankhead and Brockman family. Her filmography includes When Men Betray, Who Loved Him Best?, The Trap, Thirty a Week, My Sin, His House in Order, A Royal Scandal, Faithless, The Cheat, Tarnished Lady, Thunder Below, Devil and the Deep, The Daydreamer, Stage Door Canteen, Lifeboat, The Boy Who Owned a Melephant, Main Street to Broadway, and Fanatic.

    Born Name

    Tallulah Brockman Bankhead

    Nick Names

    Tallu, Talloo

    Tallulah Bankhead as seen in the play ‘The Little Foxes’ in 1940 (Vandamm, New York / eBay / Public Domain)

    Age

    She was born on January 31, 1902.

    Died

    On December 12, 1968, Tallulah Bankhead died of pleural double pneumonia at the age of 66 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States.

    Resting Place

    Saint Paul’s Churchyard, Kent County, Maryland, United States

    Sun Sign

    Aquarius

    Born Place

    Huntsville, Alabama, United States

    Nationality

    American

     

    Occupation

    Stage Artist, Actor, Voice Actor

    Family

    • Father – William B. Bankhead (Politician, Served as the 42nd speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1936 to 1940)
    • Mother – Adelaide Eugenia “Ada” Bankhead (née Sledge)
    • Siblings – Evelyn Eugenia (January 24, 1901 – May 11, 1979) (Older Sister)
    • Others – John H. Bankhead (Paternal Grandfather) (Politician, Democratic U.S. Senator from the State of Alabama between 1907 and 1920), Tallulah James Brockman (Paternal Grandmother), James Bankhead (Great-Great-Grandfather), John H. Bankhead II (Paternal Uncle) (Politician, U.S. Senator from the State of Alabama), Walter W. Bankhead (Cousin) (Politician, U.S. Representative from Alabama), Blossom (Niece), Barbara (Niece), John Hollis Bankhead III (Nephew)

    Build

    Slim

    Tallulah Bankhead and Welsh artist Augustus John with Bankhead’s portrait (1929) (Unknown Author / hiwaay.net / Public Domain)

    Height

    5 ft 2½ in or 158.5 cm

    Weight

    50 kg or 110 lbs

    Girlfriend / Boyfriend / Spouse

    Tallulah Bankhead had dated –

    1. Jimmy Durante
    3. Frances Day
    4. Chico Marx
    5. Laurette Taylor
    6. Alla Nazimova
    7. Hugh Williams
    11. Blyth Daly
    13. Katharine Cornell
    15. Helen Menken
    16. Ella Logan
    17. Patsy Kelly
    18. Mercedes de Acosta
    21. Groucho Marx
    22. Sonya Levien
    23. Ona Munson
    25. Eva Le Gallienne
    26. – RUMOR
    27. Lillian Hellman
    28. Leslie ‘Hutch’ Hutchinson
    29. Martita Hunt
    30. George Raft
    31. Francis X. Bushman
    32. Kay Johnson
    34. Ethel Barrymore
    35. Hattie McDaniel
    36. Leonard Bernstein
    37. Louis Armstrong
    38. – RUMOR
    40. Estelle Winwood
    41. Lilyan Tashman
    42. Louisa d’Andelot Carpenter
    43. Edward R. Murrow
    44. Blanche Yurka
    45. John Hodiak
    46. Libby Holman
    47. Toto Koopman
    49. Sarah Vaughan
    50. (1918)
    51. Napier Strut (1921)
    52. Kerry Johnson (1924)
    53. Glenn Anders (1926)
    54. (1927) – RUMOR
    55. Anthony De Bosdari (1929-1930)
    56.  (1930)
    57. (1931-1932)
    58. (1932)
    59. (1933)
    60. John Emery (1937-1941) – On August 31, 1937, she got married to actor and stage artist John Emery at her father’s home in Jasper, Alabama. In May 1941, she filed for divorce in Reno, Nevada and it was finalized on June 13, 1941. The day her divorce was finalized, Bankhead told a reporter, “You can definitely quote me as saying there will be no plans for a remarriage.”
    61. Tommy Dorsey (1940-1941)
    62. Donald Cook (1948)
    63. William Langford (1948)
    64. Beatrice Lillie (1951)
    65. (1956)

    Note – She had no children.

    Race / Ethnicity

    White

    Sexual Orientation

    Bisexual

    However, she never publicly used the term “bisexual” to describe herself and preferred to use the term “ambisextrous”.

    Distinctive Features

    • Husky voice
    • Flamboyant personality

    Religion

    She was raised a Christian.

    Tallulah Bankhead pictured as a teenager c. 1917 (Harris & Ewing / / Public Domain)

    Tallulah Bankhead Favorite Things

    • Baseball Team – New York Giants

    Source –

    Tallulah Bankhead Facts

    1. She was named after her paternal grandmother, who in turn was named after Tallulah Falls, Georgia.
    2. In 1944, Tallulah Bankhead co-starred as Constance “Connie” Porter in the survival film Lifeboat and this role won her the New York Film Critics Circle Award in the “Best Actress” category.
    3. She struggled with alcoholism and drug addiction and reportedly smoked 120 cigarettes a day.
    4. Some of her friends were Zelda Fitzgerald and Estelle Winwood.
    5. Tallulah Bankhead has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6141 Hollywood Blvd.
    6. She had 4 abortions and had a hysterectomy in 1933, at the age of 31.

    Featured Image by Vandamm, New York / eBay / Public Domain

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