Miss Tallulah Bankhead Author:Lee Israel Form her earliest days in Montgomery, Alabama, where she and her sister, Eugenia, began a fierce, dramatic rivalry for the attentions of their Congressman father and even more famous Senator grandfather, Tallulah always wanted to be a star. But although she first walked onstage at the age of sweet sixteen in The Squab Farm, she was too impatien... more »t to study her craft. Enraptured by the glamour of the theater, she became a mascot of the famed Algonquin Round Table, and soon Tallulah was creating her image of wit - an image combined with an earthy sincerity that was often bewildering.« less