What You Cannot Unsee
Tallulah Bankhead came from a theater background, and her personality seemed to be just as dramatic off stage as it was with the spotlight on her. She had no qualms; she was going to live life on her own terms, and she had every intention of being as loud about it as possible.
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Marc Davis used her behaviors and satirized her every move. She was so thin she was practically skin and bones, her voice was as raspy as they get, and she whipped her Bentley through the streets of New York, London, and Los Angeles recklessly, as if there were no other people on the road. And this is only the beginning of her similarities to the iconic character.