Tallulah Bankhead (1902-1968) was an American actor whose distinguished career in the theatre included creating the role of Regina in Lillian Hellman’s melodrama The Little Foxes, later played by Bette Davis in the famous film version. Bankhead’s best-known film role is the cynical journalist Constance Porter, cast adrift with a motley band of torpedoed survivors in Alfred Hitchcock’s thriller Lifeboat (1944). Her striking screen presence was matched by her eccentric character and her flamboyant bisexuality, her name being romantically linked to Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich and Hattie McDaniel among others. Larger than life, and eminently quotable (accepting an award for Lifeboat, she declared ‘Darlings, I was wonderful!’), Tallulah Bankhead’s status as an icon of camp was cemented when voice artist Betty Lou Gerson drew on her vocal mannerisms to create the character of Cruella de Vil in Walt Disney’s One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961).

Other films include: Devil and the Deep (1932), Faithless (1932), A Royal Scandal (1945)

Framed Dimensions: 402mm x 251mm (Unframed: 297mm x 210mm)

Acrylic on 220gsm Daler Rowney smooth paper
Glazed, mounted and framed

Supplied with signed letter of authenticity from Barnaby.

Please note, this is the original artwork by Barnaby. It is unique and not a reproduction.