Mary Eugenia Rawls (September , â€" November , ) was an American
actress.Rawls was born in Macon, Georgia, and lived with her
grandmother and two aunts for most of her early life. She made her
stage debut at age in a local production of Madame Butterfly and
later attended Wesleyan College in Macon.She moved to New York City
and made her Broadway debut in as Peggy Rogers in Lillian Hellman's
The Children's Hour. Her best-known role came in as Tallulah
Bankhead's character Regina Gidden's daughter, Alexandra, in The
Little Foxes. She replaced the original actress on Broadway, and
performed with Bankhead, who would become her lifelong mentor, when
the show toured the US. She performed in several Broadway plays
through , and appeared in many New York-based television shows in the
s and s, including a recurring role on As the World Turns and
portraying Margaret on the ABC serial Road to Reality (). She created
several one-woman shows, which she played in regional theaters, Great
Britain, and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Her
book Tallulah, A Memory was a memoir of her friend's outrageous life.
Rawls also wrote and performed in Women of The West and Affectionally
Yours, Fanny Kemble.
actress.Rawls was born in Macon, Georgia, and lived with her
grandmother and two aunts for most of her early life. She made her
stage debut at age in a local production of Madame Butterfly and
later attended Wesleyan College in Macon.She moved to New York City
and made her Broadway debut in as Peggy Rogers in Lillian Hellman's
The Children's Hour. Her best-known role came in as Tallulah
Bankhead's character Regina Gidden's daughter, Alexandra, in The
Little Foxes. She replaced the original actress on Broadway, and
performed with Bankhead, who would become her lifelong mentor, when
the show toured the US. She performed in several Broadway plays
through , and appeared in many New York-based television shows in the
s and s, including a recurring role on As the World Turns and
portraying Margaret on the ABC serial Road to Reality (). She created
several one-woman shows, which she played in regional theaters, Great
Britain, and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Her
book Tallulah, A Memory was a memoir of her friend's outrageous life.
Rawls also wrote and performed in Women of The West and Affectionally
Yours, Fanny Kemble.
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