Lauren Bacall has died aged 89, but for half a century was the widow of Hollywood Thanks or because of her marriage to Humphrey Bogart, who secured his place in history but one eclipsed path lined with two Tony, a National Book Award prizes and a handful of masterpieces of cinema.
When did Lauren Bacall was 19 and was in New York promoting his first film, Have not have , surrounded by her future husband, Humphrey Bogart and according to a text of Ernest Hemingway, playwright Moss Hart approached him and said, “You realize, of course, that as of now you can only go down, right? “.
not have to say anything or do anything. Or maybe, just whistle Hart was wrong. Lauren Bacall, “skinny” as it was known in Hollywood , had more to say in that conversation that propinaba Bogart as an affectionate slap. “No you do not have to act with me to say anything or do anything. Or maybe just whistle. know how to whistle, do not you Steve? Just put your lips and whistle “
We lay ahead stages so full of life that seemed impossible Bacall that until not long ago went out to walk his dog Sophie nearby Dakota building in New York was still the woman he fell in love with the protagonist of a film as far as Casablanca . Between the two images, the world was no longer what it was.
“What a life!” She said in 1993 when he received the Cecil B. DeMille Award for Lifetime Achievement in Golden Globes and yes, you can not summarize better than those two words.
A very interesting life his 1978 autobiography By Myself you reported National Book Award, and so durable that in 1994 wrote another entitled Now , which had to add an annex in 2005.
Lauren Bacall, born September 16, 1924 in the Bronx (New York) with the name Betty Joan Perske, had Polish Jewish blood (she was the cousin of Shimon Peres) and Romanian, and overcome an initial vocation as a journalist, focused his career to interpretation.
“I was never alone” , told Terenci Moix in an interview in which he defined as “very vulnerable and very insecure.”
No insecurity had the Warner Brothers when they saw their physical winding its feline look and a voice as if he had been born with a cigarette and a whiskey with ice. They immediately booked a ticket in style as “femme fatale” of Bogart. Howard Hawks was the one who suggested that Lauren was called. And Bacall was the name of his mother.
Bogart and Bacall became a committed partner against witch hunts of Senator McCarthy After the explosive debut came three films: The Big Sleep , written by Raymond Chandler; Dark Passage , Delmer Daves, and Cayo Largo , John Houston. Bogart and Bacall and became a committed partner against witch hunts of Senator McCarthy. However, Hollywood is wondering, there is no Bogart Bacall
She always acknowledged his priority as star and wife laughed as that proposed in the first stage image. “ If there is something that I have never been has been mysterious, and if there is anything I’ve ever done has been no talk” recognize. And it did not end on good terms with enslaving Warner.
This was the talkative comedy sophisticated How to Marry a Millionaire or My Designing Woman the way of artistic emancipation Bacall, or evasion while Bogart fell ill and left her a widow with only 32 years.
is also a transition relation with none other than Frank Sinatra, the man said he would like “to shut up and sing” and professionally had a flirtation with elegant melodrama of Douglas Sirk Written on the Wind .
Four years after the death of Bogart, and although even announced remarriage with Sinatra, was Jason Robards Jr., another heavy drinker, who seduced her heart. who was not able to fall in love again was the film and Lauren Bacall was collected in his native New York to focus his career on Broadway.
The Oscar who never nominating was compensated with two Tony awards for two music ironically based films Hollywood classic “Applause”, in which he played the character of his admired Bette Davis Eve ; and Woman of the Year , which took over the role of her friend Katharine Hepburn in the movie of the same title.
The musical has been a new opportunity for me, like being born again And on stage, elegance was even more evident, his amazing energy and reproduced the singing voice was always hoarse sensuality. Bacall was raised as a lady of the theater. “The music has been to me a new opportunity, like being born again,” he said to be, at last, like a star in itself. That “By Myself” which gave name to his biography.
But when the life of Lauren Bacall seemed that there was only honorary awards to harvest ( Donostia San Sebastian , the Cecil B. DeMille said or recognition at the Berlin Festival in the nineties), Lauren Bacall and requested a further extension, with a charming old paper The Mirror Has Two Faces , Barbra Streisand, was first nominated for an Oscar in 1997.
Everyone assumed that the statuette, including Juliette Binoche, which will lead eventually won. And while Bacall gave the worst performance of his career when trying to hide the disappointment of defeat (his son directly, he left the room), his career was revitalized.
“What does that mean my Age How old? Work is not about age . Keep working means to be alive, “he replied to a reporter in Berlin to present The Walker , an interesting plot Paul Schrader in which still showed its attractive octogenarian.
Your latest interventions were chosen but very exquisite, with so little classic names like Lars Von Trier ( Dogville and Manderlay ), an exquisite short film directed by Natalie Portman ( Eve ). And when in 2009 Hollywood finally gave him the honorary Oscar just said. “Finally, a man!”
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