'Lifeboat' actress Tallulah Bankhead (1902-1968) was an American leading lady of stage and screen during the Roaring Twenties. The actress is pictured during a scene from Let Us Be Gay on Aug. 21, 1930.
Bankhead was cast as the cynical journalist in Hitchcock's 1944 war film 'Lifeboat,' set entirely on a lifeboat stranded in the North Atlantic.