The first time Eileen Bowman saw Tallulah Bankhead she was “probably 8 or 9” years old and watching a rerun of “The Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Comedy Hour,” a short-lived TV sequel to the classic “I Love ...

Midgie Purvis (by Mary Chase) presents Tallulah Bankhead as an oddball society matron who masquerades as a very old lady. Young-hearted Midgie Purvis has long embarrassed her family as a kind of ...