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Tag Archives: To Have and Have Not
Lauren Bacall on Harper’s Bazaar: “The Twist of Fate That Changed My Life Forever”
Lauren Bacall was 17 years old, and modeling clothes at various department stores in New York City. This is the early 1940s, understand, so here’s the deal: The body type in style at that time was bodacious, with the bullet … Continue reading
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
Posted in Directors, Movies
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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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 “Insolence” of Lauren Bacall
When Lauren Bacall was 17, she modeled for a season for the designers on 7th Avenue. By her own admission, she was not very good at it. Here is what she said, when she came to do a seminar at … Continue reading