Lauren Bacall in a still from ‘Have and Have Not’ by Howard Hawks. / Video: ATLAS
In just A day Hollywood has lost one of the best comic actors of recent years and one of the classic myths of film of all time. If in the early hours of Tuesday, the body of Robin Williams was found at his home in San Francisco by one of his assistants after having hung himself with his belt, just 24 hours after the Internet portal TMZ ahead the death of Lauren Bacall, the Flaca immortal Have And Have Not (Howard Hawks, 1944) that Humphrey Bogart joined for eternity celluloid.
Lauren Bacall, one of the last ladies Golden Age of Hollywood and the only Bogart’s heart was won, died at age 89 in his New York address of a possible stroke as a result of a stroke. The news of his death reached his family confirmed through social networks. “With great regret but with great gratitude for a wonderful life, confirmed the death of Lauren Bacall” he said in a message to the official account of the entity that manages the legacy of the actor, with whom she married in 1945.
New Yorker, model and actress, Bacall debuted in Hollywood at age 19 with her future husband in said tape Hawks. born Betty Joan Perske, “a young Jewish woman from the Bronx” as it was known in the industry colloquially while developing her first roles, once the heart of all thanks to the phrase of the film that immortalized won, saying this “You know whistle, right? Just put your lips together and blow”, with that husky voice that characterized after Humphrey Bogart look to ask fire.
Another of his best known works were Cayo Largo The Big Sleep (also from Hawks) Alley bloody Written on the Wind , or more recently The Mirror Has Two Faces , directed by actress Barbra Streisand and the I got her only Oscar nomination. In the second one, perhaps the best screen adaptation ever made of a novel by Raymond Chandler, was also Bogart as detective Philip Marlowe, his co-star. Also her role as Vivian Rutledge in that film helped strengthen the image of a strong woman who accompanied him throughout his career, that mark more than 30 films.
Bogart Bacall was married until the death of interpreter Together 1957 plus left his films, one of the most famous images of actors protest against witch-hunting House Un-American Activities Committee Senator Joseph McCarthy.
Later she married fellow actor Jason Robards who was divorced in 1969 and had three children. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awarded him an Oscar Hollywood honored in 2009 as one of the most legendary and memorable performers of Hollywood gold.
Despite always maintain a very reserved attitude mecca film, his style marked a whole generation since his first job on the screen. Thin, wide lips and a heady look, her image remained in the memory quickly creating school among other actresses. His romance and eventual marriage to the hardest type of screen, Humphrey Bogart, was considered one of the most romantic of passengers accustomed to industry loves stories. A tragic love heartbroken when the cancer took from her first husband. It took nearly 20 years out of the shadow of Bogart, something made possible by his theatrical work first with the comedy Cactus Flower, then with music as Woman of the Year and Applause, for which he won two Tony awards.
One of his latest film work, the film Birth, caused controversy after Bacall’s statements against his co-star, Nicole Kidman. It really was not an attack against Kidman but the joy with which the press used to call any of the legends of Hollywood stars. “What is a legend?” He snapped at the reporter during the interview. “(Nicole) can not be a legend. To be a legend you have to be older, “said the actress who, at 89 years won more than deserved that title.
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