RIP Lauren Bacall
A different kind of death, a different kind of life, but another Hollywood icon is dead: Lauren Bacall at 89.
She was a great beauty with even more personality, and her husky voice just accented her allure. As for clips, it has to be this one:
One of the last of that era. RIP.
They don’t make them like they used to.
Mr. Frank:
Yes, but they never made too many of them to begin with.
“Key Largo”… Man’o’Man.
LB was many things to me growing up… most of all she was a smoking hot, take charge woman who took no prisoners. What a sexy woman! RIP.
Bacall and Bogey. Now that was chemistry. Set a standard for film romance that has seldom, if ever, been topped. An amazing woman who lived long and well. RIP, Lauren Bacall.
Per Wikipedia:
She was a first cousin to Shimon Peres, the ninth President of Israel, whose term expired on July 24, 2014.
The world is a small place.
mf,
The world is indeed a small place. Thanks for the trivia… sincerely. LB & Bogart were the primary icons of my early youth.
The last thing I remembering seeing her in was a movie made in the late 1990s, The Mirror Has Two Faces, with Streisand as the star. Long time since I saw it, but I think Bacall was the best thing in it. Here’s a short clip.
I see on the IMDB website that she was working right up to the end. A real trooper.
The “whistle” scene would be legendary no matter what. But it is absolutely astonishing to realize she was *19 years old* when the scene was filmed!
LOL
I just have to post this pic.
Yup, that’s Harry Triman.
http://ohkrapp.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/bacall-truman-piano.jpg
My daughter called me with the news last night. It hit her as she knows she was named for Lauren Bacall. My wife and I were agonizing over the first name of our soon to be newborn when while watching Key Largo it struck us… “Lauren”, what a great name, and what a classy person to inspire a name for new girl.
quite a few others died this past two weeks…
Incredibly sexy woman who showed just enough to make the audience fall in love with the thought of seeing more without showing more. Not the stuff we see now where there is no mystic or mystery and we get distracted wondering if a women needs to see a hematologist about that little mole next to her left nipple.
I loved her appearance on the Rockford Files where she still displayed all of her elegance and charm. She was a truly, beautiful person and indeed one of a kind.
I really dislike spell check, I misspelled dermatologist above and it became a different doc.
Elegant Lady to be sure, but was she not an outspoken Lefty ???
Ed Nelson, a star of the 1960s primetime soap “Peyton Place” and an actor with almost 200 credits, mostly in television, died on Saturday in Greensboro, N.C. He was 85.
Molly NH,
She was an outspoken liberal.
From wikipedia’s bio:
Political views:
“Bacall was a staunch liberal Democrat. She proclaimed her political views on numerous occasions. In October 1947, Bacall and Bogart traveled to Washington, D.C., along with other Hollywood stars, in a group that called itself the Committee for the First Amendment (CFA).
She appeared alongside Humphrey Bogart in a photograph printed at the end of an article he wrote, titled “I’m No Communist”, in the May 1948 edition of Photoplay magazine,[47] written to counteract negative publicity resulting from his appearance before the House Un-American Activities Committee. Bogart and Bacall distanced themselves from the Hollywood Ten and said: “We’re about as much in favor of Communism as J. Edgar Hoover.”[48]
She campaigned for Democratic candidate Adlai Stevenson in the 1952 Presidential election and for Robert Kennedy in his 1964 run for the U.S. Senate. In a 2005 interview with Larry King, Bacall described herself as “anti-Republican… A liberal. The L-word.” She added that “being a liberal is the best thing on earth you can be. You are welcoming to everyone when you’re a liberal. You do not have a small mind”.”
I would argue that Bacall was NOT a leftist but a typical liberal who had swallowed the left’s characterization of Republican’s (conservatives) as hateful, reactionary people with “small minds”.
Artfldgr at 11:09 am,
Not to demean his celebrity but Ed Nelson was not nearly on the same level of celebrity as, to name the most recent, James Garner, Robin Williams, or Lauren Bacall.
Geoffrey Britain,
Back in the day, there were also a whole lot of “conservative” country club types who were pretty narrow minded and snobbish. I remember some of their offspring from my college days. They spent lots of time worrying about the china pattern they would register for and no time trying to find out what was going on in the world.
Now that she’s *on the other side*
She’s learned who has the *small minds* these days
LOL
No doubt about it expat and a lot of those ““conservative” country club types who were pretty narrow minded and snobbish” are our RINOs of today.
There are jerks on both sides and the jerks are running things on both sides.
MollyNH,
Indeed and it must be quite a shock too!
Reminds you that back in the 1940s and 50s 19 year olds tried to look “adult”. It had the expected impact on attitudes, behavior and impressions on others as well as on looks.
Compare with Jen Psaki and Marie Harf our valley girl spokesmen for the State Department. Both are in their 30’s and look like 16 year olds.
physicsguy said about naming his daughter: “Lauren”, what a great name, and what a classy person to inspire a name for new girl.
I agree. But it never took with Bacall herself; she stuck with “Betty” in her personal life.
Bacall’s memoir was a lively read. Her treatment of Sinatra (her BF post-Bogey)was fascinating and telling. RIP, Beautiful Girl. Bogey, you’ve got some wonderful company back, man!!
My favorite Bacall scene was in The Shootist, when J B Books (John Wayne), her short term boarder who was dying of cancer, left her home for the last time. Few words were exchanged, and none to the point, but it was clear that she knew that she would not see him again, that he knew that she knew it, and that that she understood and respected this man whom she first reviled.
On a tangent – the parallels between the Shootist and Gran Torino were, in my mind, too close to be coincidental. The more passive ending for Eastwood’s character than Wayne’s was a conscious choice, one that I thought was for the worse.