Tuesday, January 31, 2012

PAINTED TALLULAH

I lifted this from the blog of Anthony Brockway for no other reason that I’ve always admired the celebrated Bankhead…

“What a meeting it must have been when Augustus John painted Tallulah Bankhead in 1929. The Welsh artist, famous for his scandalous behaviour and voracious sexual appetite, in the same room as Bankhead the American actress, famous for her scandalous behaviour and voracious sexual appetite.”

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