Tallulah Bankhead Tribute & Film Festival

The Tallulah Bankhead Tribute will celebrate its 2nd year in June 2016. For this upcoming event in 2016, I would like to add a film festival component instead of the original show I had written and directed along with replacing other activities. My plan is to make the film festival the focal point of the weekend using just one of Tallulah's films but adding several independent films. Jasper, Alabama, Tallulah's hometown and the home of the Bankhead House & Heritage Center Museum, will host this event again this year. Last year, we hosted Brook Ashley (Tallulah's goddaughter) who conducted a talkback after the original show MR. WILL & DUTCH: ALABAMA'S LEGENDARY BANKHEADS. Another guest was Tandy Cronyn, daughter of Jessica Tandy and Hume Cronyn. Hume co-starred in Alfred Hitchcock's film LIFEBOAT with Tallulah Bankhead so Miss Cronyn not had stories about her Tallulah, but also Alfred Hitchcock, and her famous parents. Keith Thibodeaux (Little Ricky Ricardo from I LOVE LUCY) hosted a talkback which included not only stories of Tallulah in the episode entitled "The Celebrity Next Door." Tours of homes and museums, a female impersonator at a local sports bar, a 5-K race, an art crawl, and music were also part of the Tallulah Bankhead Tribute. Some of the events already planned include our Little Foxes Party, this year as a Black & White Ball (2016 is the 50th anniversary of Truman Capote's party that Tallulah crashed) where Joel Vig, New York actor, will portray Truman Capote in a standup routine entitled "Truman talks Tallulah." The film festival will be the largest and most prominent event going on during the weekend.