Tallulah Bankhead is always livening up other people's biographies with her quick wit, nudity, sexual appetite, and fondness for coke and booze. Here she goes center stage and isn't as much fun.
To be fair, the author is upfront about what he's doing - reclaiming its subject from myth, looking at her whole career. There's lots of descriptions of old plays and films. I enjoyed the stuff more that I recognised but that's on me.
Lobenthal writes with a lot of affection and insight and it's well researched.
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