Eugenia Rawls
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United States
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actress.
After attending the University of North Carolina
University of North Carolina
Chartered in 1789, the University of North Carolina was one of the first public universities in the United States and the only one to graduate students in the eighteenth century...
, she moved to New York and made her Broadway debut in 1934 as Peggy Rogers in Lillian Hellman
Lillian Hellman
Lillian Florence "Lily" Hellman was an American playwright, linked throughout her life with many left-wing causes...
's The Children's Hour. Her most famous role came in 1939 as Tallulah Bankhead
Tallulah Bankhead
Tallulah Brockman Bankhead was an award-winning American actress of the stage and screen, talk-show host, and bonne vivante...
's daughter, Alexandra, in The Little Foxes
The Little Foxes
The Little Foxes is a 1939 play by Lillian Hellman. Its title comes from Chapter 2, Verse 15 in the Song of Solomon in the King James version of the Bible, which reads, "Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes." Set in a small town in Alabama in...
. She replaced the original actress on Broadway, and performed with Ms. Bankhead in the show when it toured across America.
Rawls appeared in many New York based television shows in the 1950s and 60s, and had a recurring role on As The World Turns
As the World Turns
As the World Turns is an American television soap opera that aired on CBS from April 2, 1956 to September 17, 2010. Irna Phillips created As the World Turns as a sister show to her other soap opera Guiding Light...
. She created several one-woman shows, which she played in regional theatres, Great Britain, and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is a performing arts center located on the Potomac River, adjacent to the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C...
. Her Tallulah, A Memory was a dramatization of her friend's outrageous life. Rawls also wrote and performed in Women of The West and Affectionally Yours, Fanny Kemble
Fanny Kemble
Frances Anne Kemble , was a famous British actress and author in the early and mid nineteenth century.-Youth and acting career:...
Personal life
Born Mary Eugenia Rawls, she was married to Donald SeawellDonald Seawell
Donald R. Seawell was born in Jonesboro, North Carolina. His father was Aaron A. F. Seawell, a Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court. He graduated from the University of North Carolina, and UNC Law School. In 1941 he married Broadway actress, Eugenia Rawls, who played Tallulah Bankhead's...
, a theatrical producer and Tallulah Bankhead's attorney. They had two children.
Publications
- Tallulah, a Memory, University of Alabama Press, 1979.
- A Moment Ago, Denver Center for the Performing Arts Press, 1984.