Scene; The Players Club, Gramercy Park, Manhattan, New York City. Occassion; Ms Bacall's Birthday Party. Actors of stage and screen entertaining each other! Alan Ginsburg on stage, Imogen Coca, A Star Studded affair. Me, certainly in awe of this Grand Lady and fine actress. She was so beautiful and elegant , her mature years no less. Being invited to her party was an honor and she was indeed gracious to me. I still get lost in her films, enthralled with her characters, I could watch Casablanca a million times and never be bored! She will always be part of my memory and the Great American Theater! Ms Bacall you are remembered well!
New York Times on Bacall..
Lauren Bacall, the actress whose provocative glamour elevated her to stardom in Hollywood’s golden age and whose lasting mystique put her on a plateau in American culture that few stars reach, died on Tuesday in New York. She was 89.
Her death was confirmed by her son Stephen Bogart. “Her life speaks for itself,” Mr. Bogart said. “She lived a wonderful life, a magical life.”
With an insinuating pose and a seductive, throaty voice — her simplest remark sounded like a jungle mating call, one critic said — Ms. Bacall shot to fame in 1944 with her first movie, Howard Hawks’s adaptation of the Ernest Hemingway novel “To Have and Have Not,” playing opposite Humphrey Bogart, who became her lover on the set and later her husband.
It was a smashing debut sealed with a handful of lines now engraved in Hollywood history.
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Her death was confirmed by her son Stephen Bogart. “Her life speaks for itself,” Mr. Bogart said. “She lived a wonderful life, a magical life.”
With an insinuating pose and a seductive, throaty voice — her simplest remark sounded like a jungle mating call, one critic said — Ms. Bacall shot to fame in 1944 with her first movie, Howard Hawks’s adaptation of the Ernest Hemingway novel “To Have and Have Not,” playing opposite Humphrey Bogart, who became her lover on the set and later her husband.
It was a smashing debut sealed with a handful of lines now engraved in Hollywood history.
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