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2 Tallulah Bankhead quizzes and 25 Tallulah Bankhead trivia questions.
1.
  Tallulah Bankhead    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
I am a Tallulah Bankhead fan. I first saw her on the 'Lucy Desi Comedy Hour'. I then did a biography report in my sophomore English class, which I got extra credit points on. Have fun!
Tough, 10 Qns, ReToddjr, Jul 24 05
Tough
ReToddjr
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  15 Questions on Tallulah Bankhead    
Multiple Choice
 15 Qns
Tallulah Bankhead's name is famous but how well do you know her life and career ?
Difficult, 15 Qns, 4maxine, Jul 24 05
Difficult
4maxine
611 plays

Tallulah Bankhead Trivia Questions
1. What is Tallulah's middle name?

From Quiz Tallulah Bankhead

Answer: Brockman

2. What was her first play in London?

From Quiz Tallulah Bankhead

Answer: The Dancers

The producer was Gerald Du Maurier.

3. Which great actress did she admire and mimicked at parties?

From Quiz Tallulah Bankhead

Answer: Ethel Barrymore

She became a life long friend of the three Barrymore siblings.

4. Tallulah was born in which city of Alabama?

From Quiz Tallulah Bankhead

Answer: Huntsville

She was daughter of William Bankhead.

5. What was her first Noel Coward play?

From Quiz Tallulah Bankhead

Answer: Fallen Angels

The theme of the play (two women getting drunk and talking about an ex-lover) provoked the wrath of the moral leagues.

6. What day of the month, and month of the year was Tallulah born on in 1902?

From Quiz Tallulah Bankhead

Answer: January 31

She shared her father's middle name.

7. Huge groups of hysterical fans attended all her performances. What name was given to them?

From Quiz Tallulah Bankhead

Answer: The Gallery Girls

One of them became her secretary and companion for the best part of her life.

8. At which age did she make her debut in 'Squab Farm'?

From Quiz Tallulah Bankhead

Answer: 18

When she was fifteen she won a movie-magazine beauty contest and conviced her family to let her move to New York.

9. Whom did she marry ... and divorce?

From Quiz Tallulah Bankhead

Answer: John Emery

It was her only and short-lived marriage.

10. Finish this quote from screenwriter, Anita Loos: "She was so pretty that we thought she must be _____"?

From Quiz Tallulah Bankhead

Answer: Stupid

11. Who wrote "The Green Hat"?

From Quiz Tallulah Bankhead

Answer: Michael Arlen

It was rumoured that the novel was based on her affair with Lord Arlington. The author was part of the same crowd.

12. In what year did she make her debut on the London stage?

From Quiz Tallulah Bankhead

Answer: 1923

This is where she was to appear in over a dozen plays in the next eight years.

13. Who played her part in the film adaptation of "The Green Hat"?

From Quiz Tallulah Bankhead

Answer: Greta Garbo

The title was changed to "A Woman of Affairs" directed by Clarence Brown.

14. Which famous Alfred Hitchcock film did Tallulah star in?

From Quiz Tallulah Bankhead

Answer: 'Lifeboat'

This was acknowledged as her best film.

15. Tallulah died of what?

From Quiz Tallulah Bankhead

Answer: Pneumonia

The pneumonia arised from influenza, and was complicated further by emphysema.

16. Who was her leading man in "Faithless"?

From Quiz Tallulah Bankhead

Answer: Robert Montgomery

Brook vas in "Tarnished Lady", Cooper in "The Devil and the Deep" and March in "My Sin".

17. Who played her part in the film adaptation of "Forsaking All Others"?

From Quiz Tallulah Bankhead

Answer: Joan Crawford

The movie starred Robert Montgomery and Clark Gable.

18. Bette Davis played in the film version of "The Little Foxes" but what other Bankhead role did she play on film?

From Quiz Tallulah Bankhead

Answer: Dark Victory

Bankhead was to play "Jezebel" on stage but she had to pull out at the last moment and was replaced by Miriam Hopkins.

19. Who played her part in the film adaptation of "Clash by Night"?

From Quiz Tallulah Bankhead

Answer: Barbara Stanwyck

Bankead never brought any of her stage parts to the screen.

20. What was the name of her radio program?

From Quiz Tallulah Bankhead

Answer: The Big Show

A one hour extravaganza that included the biggest names in show business at the time.

21. What film was she in with Ethel and Lionel Barrymore?

From Quiz Tallulah Bankhead

Answer: Main Street to Broadway

Lots of theatre stars had small roles in this movie.

22. When did she die?

From Quiz Tallulah Bankhead

Answer: 12 December, 1968

Her last words were : "Codeine, Bourbon".

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