Setting the records straight on Tallulah Bankhead's last film RANKIN/BASS' THE DAYDREAMER (1966)

Tallulah as the sea witch in RANKIN/BASS' THE DAYDREAMER (1966) as seen in the book THE ENCHANTED WORLD OF RANKIN/BASS: A PORTFOLIO
c. 1966 RANKIN/BASS PRODUCTIONS/RICK GOLDSCHMIDT ARCHIVES

Valerie Harper (TV's RHODA) is playing Tallulah Bankhead in a new play called LOOPED and getting rave reviews for portraying Hollywood's original bad girl. Bankhead is said to have had many bisexual affairs, smoked 100 cigarettes a day and drank bourbon and gin like water. The play is said to be based on a 1965 looping session for what is believed to be her last film 'Die, Die, my darling.' For this film, it took her 8 hours to loop a single line, due to her intoxicated state. I felt I should set the records straight. Bankhead's last looping session was for her last film RANKIN/BASS' THE DAYDREAMER (1966).

VARIETY wrote "Skillful, inventive and charming....It should particularly appeal to the pre-teen audience but with a long list of well-known names voicing the fairy-tale characters, pic should also get good play from the older generations as well. Jules Bass' direction has balanced the live action sequences well with those of ANIMAGIC."