Kendall Taylor: "Sometimes Madness is Wisdom, Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald, a marriage." Published in 2001, this book does deal lightly with Tallulah as a young girl. I would hope that some of the stories garnered, regarding Tallulah's mad-cap ways at the seminary schools she and her sister Gene attended, would be included and expanded upon in any future book or article delving into her childhood.
"Milking the Moon," Eugene Walter and Katherine Clark, oh!, it's not just the three pubic hairs that Ms. Bankhead allegedly gave him as a memento that would attract further readings...
Bashaw, Carolyn Terry. "'I Shall Make Good Big': The Algonquin Correspondence of Tallulah Bankhead, 1918-1920". Article in The Alabama Review. October 2001, pp. 277-299.
Lasalle, Mick. Complicated Women: Sex and Power in Pre-Code Hollywood. St. Martin's Press, 2000.
Anyone looking for general background on Tallulah's time in the English Theatre of the 1920's might like to read Jonathan Croall's biography of John Gielgud.
"Tallulah! The Life and Times of a Leading Lady," by Joel Lobenthal, just released in October, 2004...excerpts appear in October 2004 issue of INTERVIEW magazine.
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