Eugenia

Theater: Ambassador
Opening Date: January 30, 1957
Performances: 12

Playwright: Randolph Carter
Director: Herbert Machiz
Producer: John C. Wilson

Partial Cast: Reynolds Evans, Anna Meacham, Irma Hurley, Robert Duke, Scott Merrill, Jay Barney

Tallulah's Role: Eugenia

Eugenia was an adaptation of Henry James's The Ambassadors and Tallulah accepted the part solely on the play's title (it was the name of her sister, her mother and her good friend Eugenia Rawls) and her faith in the director. By this time, Tallulah was in precarious health, heavily dependent on alchohol and pills. Although her eyesight was failing, she refused to wear glasses on stage. She broke a finger during one performance and began to forget her lines, something that the younger Tallulah never did. In one performance, she lapsed into a passage from The Little Foxes to the bewilderment of her co-stars. The audience, however, didn't seem to notice and Tallulah later commented that it showed that the play wasn't very good in the first place. It played in Philadelphia and Baltimore before reaching Broadway, where it lasted for 12 performances.

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