At 15, Tallulah Bankhead won a movie-magazine beauty contest and
persuaded her family to let her move to New York. Her father, William
Bankhead, used his influence and connections to help secure Tallulah’s
first stage role, a nonspeaking, one scene walk-on part in the comedy
The Squab Farm. It only played the Bijou theater for three weeks.
Tallulah’s comments on the play from her autobiography: "A mute
child in a flop. That was my beginning."
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DEBUT ON THIS DAY IN 1918
LOOKING BACK AT TODAY IN HISTORY
FORMER CHILD ACTOR IS 64 TODAY
Jon Provost (Jonathan Bion Provost)
Provost is best known for his role as young Timmy Martin in the CBS
series, Lassie (1957-1964). His acting career began at age two when
cast as Jane Wyman and Sterling Hayden’s son in the 1953 film So Big.
At 14 years of age Provost decided to end his career in show business,
but made a decision to return to do some television work in 1990. His
Career has taken variety of directions since.
According to his website, the check shirt and jeans he wore for seven
years on Lassie hang in The Smithsonian next to Archie Bunker’s chair.
SHARON STONE IS 56 YEARS YOUNG TODAY
Sharon Stone became well known for her role in the 1992 thriller Basic
Instinct with Michael Douglas. Despite initial critical negativity and public
protest, Basic Instinct became one of the most successful films financially
of the 1990s. Before fame, Stone quit school to become a fashion model
in New York City.
ACTRESS SHEILA MACRAE HAS DIED AT 92
Sheila Margaret MacRae (Stephens) (Sep. 24, 1920 – Mar. 6, 2014)
MacRae died on March 6 in Englewood, New Jersey from natural causes at
the Lillian Booth Actor’s Home. No funeral was planned. She married actor
and singer Gordon MacRae in 1941; the couple divorced in 1967.They
often appeared on the stage together, in such musicals as the 1964
production of The Bells Are Ringing, and Guys and Dolls,
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