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Lauren Bacall: “He was a very special human being, Bogart.”
A funny article here which gives you a glimpse of Bacall, age 80, on her book tour. I like, in particular, this quote from Bacall: “I am always associated with [Bogart] in people’s minds ‘the greatest love story ever … Continue reading
The Perfect Imaginary Dinner
THE AUTHORS Christopher Marlowe. I have a TON of questions to ask that guy. Charles Dickens. Just because I have a feeling that the dude was a blast. He could sit at the head of the table, keep the liquor … Continue reading
Sidney Lumet: On Murder on the Orient Express
Movie stars vs. theatre stars. Excerpt from Sidney Lumet’s Making Movies: Sidney Lumet: A charming thing happened at the first reading of Murder on the Orient Express. Five stars of the English theatre were appearing in the West End at … Continue reading
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Tagged Ingrid Bergman, Lauren Bacall, Richard Widmark, Sidney Lumet, Vanessa Redgrave
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More On That Howard Hawks Woman
Recently, I noticed an interesting thing, which somehow (I think) illuminates what I was trying to write about here, in my piece about “the Howard Hawks woman“. Howard Hawks directed Only Angels Have Wings in 1939, and To Have and … Continue reading
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Tagged Cary Grant, Howard Hawks, Humphrey Bogart, Jean Arthur, Lauren Bacall, Only Angels Have Wings, To Have and Have Not
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The Howard Hawks Woman
Howard Hawks is THE director for portraying the delicious war between the sexes. (That’s why his films resonate so deeply, I think, for me. Yes, there is a war between the sexes, but oh, isn’t it a lovely war? And … Continue reading
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Tagged Bringing Up Baby, Cary Grant, Howard Hawks, Katharine Hepburn, Lauren Bacall, Rosalind Russell, To Have and Have Not
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Cary Grant’s “Comic Signature”
Richard Schickel describes the acting in The Awful Truth … no one overplays their underplaying and … the pace is all of a piece. In the little world that the director, Leo McCarey, created for thisfilm — and he won … Continue reading
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Tagged Cary Grant, Howard Hawks, Irene Dunne, Lauren Bacall, Leo McCarey, The Awful Truth
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Bogart and Bacall: Early Publicity Shot
Bogart hated doing publicity shots, and got out of them as often as he could, which, of course, was much easier once he was a huge star. Martin Weiser, the studio photographer who had been personally assigned to Lauren Bacall … Continue reading
The Last Exchange in The Big Sleep
She: And what about me? He: You? What’s wrong with you? She: Nothing you can’t fix.
Bacall and Truman
Truman regretted this photo later, but nobody else did! She’s 20 years old. She married Bogie a month or so later. This was in her period of white-hot new celebrity, which was soon to end. (Not for good, she would … Continue reading