TALLULAH BANKHEAD #1 RCA Promo LP Radio Show Interview

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TALLULAH BANKHEAD #1 RCA Promo LP Radio Show Interview

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RCA VICTOR SPECIAL RADIO DISC JOCKEY PRESSING - THE STARS REVIEW THE HITS - WAYNE HOWELL'S DISC JOCKEY SHOW / FULL-LENGTH INTERVIEW WITH HOLLYWOOD ACTRESS TALLULAH BANKHEAD. For original broadcast between June 17 and June 28, 1952. RCA Victor SRH-69 12" double-sided 33 1/3 RPM monoraul LP record album. Includes original hardcopy program sheets and brown paper sleeve. (This LP was not issued with a standard cover.) The Wayne Howell show was issued by RCA Victor as a means of providing programming to radio stations, while simultaneously promoting RCA recording artists. Each show would feature an interview with one famous personality. Interspersed within the extended conversation, Howell would introduce a new song by an RCA recording artist. The song would be played by the local disc jockey, and then the interview would resume. The song is introduced on this interview LP, but the song itself is not on the record. This record contains only the interview portion of the show. The entire program including interview and music was scheduled to run approximately one-half hour, with the interview constituting about half the show. The program host Wayne Howell was also well-known as a game show announcer on such shows as "Concentration," "Match Game," "Reach for the Stars," "Name that Tune," and "What's My Line." Condition: Record is in near mint condition. Our Policy: I have 25 years experience as a record dealer and record show promoter. I use the Goldmine grading system. Check my feedback for assurance, and buy with confidence. I go through tens of thousands of records every year, and only the most unique and interesting, and best condition vinyl ends up on eBay.

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MORE ABOUT THE INTERVIEW SUBJECT TALLULAH BANKHEAD: Seductive, whiskey-voiced, one-of-a-kind American leading lady Tallulah Bankhead, the daughter of the Speaker of the House of Representatives William Brockman Bankhead, began her stage career at age 15 after being educated in a convent. She did more stage work plus two silent films, then went to London in 1923 where she became a celebrity while performing brilliantly in a string of plays. The hot-blooded Bankhead preferred to live dangerously and became notorious for her uninhibited behavior (such as taking off her clothes in public), a tendency many have seen as detrimental to the use of her considerable talents. She appeared in two British silents before coming to America in 1930; signed by Paramount, she began her movie career in earnest but remained more a fixture of Broadway, where she shone in plays such as The Little Foxes (for which she won the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award in 1939, an award she won again in 1942 for The Skin of Our Teeth). Her movie career was spotty and included several box office disasters, perhaps because her extravagant, larger-than-life personality was not done justice on the screen; her more memorable appearances include a celebrated performance in Hitchcock's Lifeboat (1944), for which she was cited by New York Film Critics. Bankhead made only three more films after Lifeboat. She is divorced from actor John Emery. In 1952, she wrote her autobiography, Tallulah.

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