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I just can't help posting pics of the great Tallulah Bankhead, and the kind folks at the aptly-named If Charlie Parker was a Gunslinger... have fed my obsession in grand style with this wonderful series.

Irving Rapper from Movie Talk: Who Said What About Whom in the Movies, first quoted here:

The greatest performance I have ever seen was given by Tallulah Bankhead in the test she made for Amanda in The Glass Menagerie. Karl Freund photographed the test. He cried. She was that woman! She had promised not to drink; she could not keep her promise. Jack Warner said 'Errol Flynn is enough.' It cost a fortune to do an Errol Flynn picture because he was always drunk. And thanks to Errol Flynn, Tallulah lost the part.