August 1923 Actress Tallulah Bankhead, star of the play The Dancers,
wearing black dress and pearls, looking away from camera. Via Conde Nast
It is 1923 London. Tallulah Bankhead has been cast in a ten-month run of
The Dancers. A number of female fans dubbed the “Gallery Girls” flocked to her every performance and wanted to emulate the larger-than-life
star known for referring to everyone as “dahhling”.
1. In the middle of one of the performances Bankhead surprises her co-star (and playright) Sir Gerald Du Maurier by cutting her hair into a bob. A surprising response...many of her fans sheared their own hair during the
performance, tossing their locks onto the stage.
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1. http://www.thevintageguidetolondon.com/famous-londoners-tallulah-bankhead/
2. Frances Osborne, The Bolter, Knopf (June 2, 2009), page 135.
