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Why did Tallulah Bankhead leave broadway?
The plays were commercially and critically unsuccessful. Bankhead had been in New York for five years, but had yet to score a significant hit. Restless, Bankhead moved to London.
What was Tallulah Bankhead's first role back in Broadway?
1933's Forsaking All Others by Edward Barry Roberts and Frank Morgan Cavett was a modest success for Tallulah Bankhead, running 110 performances.
What other roles did Tallulah Bankhead get besides in Forsaking All Others?
Bankhead's next two short-lived plays, Jezebel by Owen Davis and Dark Victory by George Brewer Jr. and Bertram Bloch, were both transformed into high-profile, prestigious film vehicles.
What else was notable about Tallulah Bankhead's return to Broadway besides appearing in plays?
From 1936 to 1938, David O. Selznick, producer of Gone with the Wind called Tallulah Bankhead the first choice among established stars to play Scarlett O'Hara.

Question: Why didn't she get that role?
Self-contained rewrite: Why didn't Tallulah Bankhead get the role in Gone with the Wind?