RIP Lauren Bacall

This week.

http://www.thewrap.com/lauren-bacall-legendary-actress-and-model-dead-at-89/

rip, she was the greatest of all time

Well.

rip, what mordy said

i crushed so hard on all her characters

RIP

To Have And Have Not is a miracle of a movie, one of the greatest conceivable Hollywood films, and she's the burning fireball in the middle of it

One of the best used and cast actresses. Great fin at her best.

she was so fucking cool too

She had a voice that no one ever got tired of listening to and she knew how to use it to maximum effect.

"you know how to whistle? you just put your lips together and... blow."

I always have an art exercise where kids choose from about 50 famous faces I run off for them and do a pencil sketch. The best part for me is always the class where I go through the choices and talk about each one. If any of them come across this on the news, hope it clicks in who she was.

http://ca.hellomagazine.com/imagenes/brides/201010274396/iconic-couples/lauren-bacall/humphrey-bogart/0-12-665/lauren-young--a.jpg

http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--XxDcfI18--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/t9ngivkpr8cptg6kl0ld.jpg

that photo clemenza posted... just WOW!

Just watched To Have and Have Not a few weeks ago. I still can't get on board with the "better than Casablanca" cult, but let's be honest about why the film works so well: simply pointing a camera Bogie and Bacall was enough.

OTM

Jesus fuck this week
RIP

Can someone whos not cool die this week to even things out

she was so fab. and her voice!

http://youtu.be/cu66EDMxAbI

deCAFFeinated

RIP, Betty.

She was on the Oscars back in the mid-00s, introducing a film noir clip package. She had to wear these enormous old lady glasses to read the teleprompter, and even then she was having a hard time keeping up, frequently stumbling over her words. I felt so bad for her to be thrown out there like that after a career practically defining 'cool'.

RIP

An intelligent, talented beauty.

My friend Millie: "Heartbreaking to lose Bacall. My kinda lady. I remember when she would call TCM to make sure we played the right version of THE BIG SLEEP. I'd basically just started and was like, "Wait, do the stars call us and complain about stuff?!" R.I.P. to a real hottie."

what a fox she was

I saw The Big Sleep in rep a few years ago, and you can bet there were catcalls from the gallery upon her introduction. (Can only think of two other times that happened -- Paulette Goddard in Modern Times and Rita Hayworth in Gilda)

WTF, Her last credit was an ep of Family Guy.

fuckin love her

aw jeez. may she discuss horses with bogie forever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iArJeEah92s

Even as cool as she was, there was something unusual and subversive about her style.

Have to admit that the first thing I thought of was that time she got mugged by Christopher Moltisanti

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKlgJkgqo1U

after The Big Sleep (which shits all over THAHN btw), I thought of

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUi2dXXVsd8

So the Andy Williams rumors weren't true after all?

On an even more tangential note, only recently learned that Martha Vickers had been married to Mickey Rooney, but then who wasn't.

it's said the andy williams recordings were not used

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_k94gNzapQ

The Big Sleep is better than almost everything tbf. RIP Ms Bacall

RIP

RIP Lauren, babe of all babes... and much more besides!

otm

:-(

we're all written on the wind, but some of us are whistling as we blow. RIP.

having some instant in her honor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhXWEIGHwlg

Few movie villains have I identified with more strongly than Lauren Bacall in Written on the Wind.

obviously Mr. Bacall wouldn't dream of making the coffee himself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQBGjCtu888

I love Robards' detectable just-gimme-the-check aura there. I'm sure those two had plenty of coffee the mornings after they threw all the glassware at each other.

She did three things with James Garner in a little over a year -- a Rockford Files, Health, The Fan (a lurid stalker thriller) -- ao I guess I'll continue to believe that gossip about the incident in the limousine...

Few movie villains have I identified with more strongly than Lauren Bacall Jason Robards in that coffee commercial in Written on the Wind.

Serious question: have those High Point ads always been part of the camp lexicon or only in the last few years. I don't remember ever hearing people say "de-GAFF-inated" until very recently.

I was completely unaware of these coffee ads and I almost wish I still was

we roasted marshmallows when i went to Camp Lexicon

well, this was our acquaintance:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-4MokVSsgs

btw I've never seen Dark Passage so I guess the time has come.

She was a welcome presence in The Shootist.

xp good god I remember that Fancy Feast commercial, never put it together that was her voice

I've watched that coffee commercial six times in the last 10 minutes.

Her ads I remember airing in NY in the '70s/80s were for FORTUNOFF: THE SOURCE.

Keyframe roundup:

http://www.fandor.com/keyframe/daily-lauren-bacall-1924-2014

Dark Passage, Key Largo and the Curtiz films are the significant gaps in my viewing. Was going to add her John Wayne film to that, but after reading up on it, it doesn't seem like anyone has anything good to say about that one.

REALLY?

http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/the-shootist/Film?oid=1065687

Key Largo isn't very good. They all stand around waiting for shit to happen and Claire Trevor to humiliate herself.

nice moment when EGR whispers in Bacall's ear

Ah crap. Obviously I should have specified there--I meant Blood Alley. The Shootist, or at least what I remember of it, was solid.

The Shootist is great.

no, i've never seen Blood Alley either. The Cobweb is sposed to be a corker, but i keep missing it in rep here (every 3 years or so).

I always get The Shootist (which has an iffy rep) mixed up with The Shooting (which has an inflated one).

She was great rattling off one liners at Paul Newman in Harper. RIP

eh, skip The Shootist

http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2014/08/12/lauren_bacall_was_last_living_icon_name_dropped_in_madonna_s_vogue.html

you should see at least ten Wayne westerns before The Shootist, but of course we all have!

did anyone ever read By Myself?

"My son tells me, 'Do you realize you are the last one? The last person who was an eyewitness to the golden age?' Young people, even in Hollywood, ask me, 'Were you really married to Humphrey Bogart?' 'Well, yes, I think I was,' I reply. You realize yourself when you start reflecting—because I don't live in the past, although your past is so much a part of what you are—that you can't ignore it. But I don't look at scrapbooks. I could show you some, but I'd have to climb ladders, and I can't climb."

http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/features/2011/03/lauren-bacall-201103

is it ghost written?

haven't read that it was.

“I don’t think anybody that has a brain can really be happy. What is there really to be happy about? You tell me. If you’re a thinking human being, there’s no way to divorce yourself from the world. Yes, I probably was happy when I was married to Bogie, but I was very young then. I had a good growing-up life, I would say, but I wasn’t really happy, because I was an only child, and I wasn’t part of a whole family—what we in America consider the proper family, a father and a mother and child, which, of course, is a big crock we know—and yet I had the greatest family anyone could wish for in everyone on my mother’s side. So what you think is happy? Happy shmappy. I think you have to be unconscious to be happy. Are you unconscious?”

you know, I only learned today that she was a Jewish gal--first cousin to Shimon Peres if you believe wikipedia. why did I not know this?

anyway:

http://rockhudsonblog.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/wotw14.jpg

she acceded to Bogart's wish to raise their two kids as Presbyterian (he was lapsed) so they would face "one less hurdle.'

had no idea she was jewish!

Betty Joan Perske from da Bronx

She also lived in the Dakota for something like 56 years, way longer than Yoko has.

I read an anecdote once about Howard Hawks making some kinda mildly antisemitic remark in her presence, and she was afraid to speak up for fear he'd fire her from whatever-movie-it-was

A short film from 2008, directed by Natalie Portman and also with Ben Gazzara. Haven't watched it--a local critic linked to it.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xkqpys_eve-dirigida-por-natalie-portman_shortfilms

did hawks put the moves on her? i dunno, old-man director known for his womanizing discovers 18-yr-old model, puts her in his big movie, i'm sure his intentions were completely on the up and up.

of course, he was right about her talent.

i read by myself as a kid because my mom owned it, and i was transfixed by how pretty young lauren bacall was on the cover. (there was a glossy photo section in the middle, and i would just stare at her face.) i remember it being a good read! she seemed cool. i was slightly weirded out by her relationship with bogart. not because she described anything bad, but because of the age difference and because the intensity of the feeling she described was sort of scary to me. i love that quote about happiness.

Howard Hawks' films need to be burned.

ha, i'd sooner they burn a variety of major religious texts before they get around to those.

at least, save only angels have wings for me, ok?

Hawks was a huge scumbag, but he made quite a few great films

also that Vanity Fair article's a bit of a hatchet job, but eh, can't say i'm surprised, old people get cranky and craz(ier)

Howard Hawks' films need to be burned.

You are exactly why people root for the apes.

apparently todd mccarthy in writing his hawks bio uncovered evidence that hawks killed a man in a fight in his college days, and it was covered up (hawks came from an important family). but at the time some of the folks involved were still alive so he didn't publish it. i've heard that story from two people who know mccarthy.

hawks made as many great films as anyone in hollywood whose name was not john ford!

i should say, in RESEARCHING his hawks bio

i like most of her 'cranky' qualities in the VF article! (hard to believe eh)

otoh, reading about B&B's brave posse marching to DC against McCarthy and HUAC -- then Bogart backing off under studio pressure, saying he regretted making such a stand... well, Hollywood Democrats haven't changed much.

but you're talking to Eric, am.

who is eric?

also, yeah, bacall's crankiness is supremely endearing

Good obit:

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/aug/13/lauren-bacall-obituary

I haven't looked for it online, but I remember a TV interview she did w/ Dick Cavett circa 1980, and she kept goofily tap-punching him in mock anger (and probably scaring him a little).

respect for her somewhat diminished by the screwing Sinatra part (at least she calls him "a shit")

eh, everybody screwed sinatra, all is forgiven

probably not too many while their husband was dying in the next room tho. #oldrumor

I watched a clip of her on the Ready to Wear promo tour in which she laughed and said "the cat food in that damn commercial" tasted better than Sinatra.

tmi!

oh that Betty

for a celebrated beauty, she was really not goin after the Adonises

name the two movies where bacall and dorothy malone are hot for the same man:

she really did not think she was pretty iirc from the autobiography. i know that's standard boilerplate from beautiful actresses, but her insecurities feel real in that book.

always felt like Kathleen Turner had a Bacall air to her

aside from KT's inexplicable Latina lilt

hawks made as many great films as anyone in hollywood whose name was not john ford!

If there's one thing I want people to remember about me when I'm dead and gone, it's that Hawks made exactly TWO great movies: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and [fill in the blank].

is Robert Stack a man?

xp wrong thread, wrong moment

was Malone in Designing Woman?

I would like to whisper something in Eric's ear right now a la EGR in Key Largo.

(and by "whisper something" I mean "pee")

I seem to be shitting you out of my hair.

More on topic, I organized the celebrities name checked in "Vogue" in chronological order according to date of death.

Jean Harlow (June 7, 1937)
James Dean (Sept. 30, 1955)
Marilyn Monroe (Aug. 5, 1962)
Grace Kelly (Sept. 14, 1982)
Rita Hayworth (May 14, 1987)
Fred Astaire (June 2, 1987)
Bette Davis (Oct. 6, 1989)
Greta Garbo (April 15, 1990)
-----
Marlene Dietrich (May 6, 1992)
Ginger Rogers (April 25, 1995)
Lana Turner (June 29, 1995)
Gene Kelly (Feb. 2, 1996)
Joe DiMaggio (March 8, 1999)
Katharine Hepburn (June 29, 2003)
Marlon Brando (July 1, 2004)
Lauren Bacall (Aug. 12, 2014)

too much High Point coffee imho

xp

Morbz: nope, try again!

hint:

http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_kqovbj6wGi1qzhiqwo3_1280.png?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAI6WLSGT7Y3ET7ADQ&Expires=1408050031&Signature=HAmQPv6RrWKhmD8Vm6QhoYGwSf0%3D#_=_

oh yeah, she's the bookstore girl in Big Sleep

and my God, Malone still lives

the ladies of the big sleep will prob never be topped

so who are the last big golden age stars left?

olivia de havilland

kirk douglas

...

Nancy Davis

Luise Rainer (mehhhh)

I don't think either of our All About Eve obsessives/spouses has mentioned that Bacall won a Tony for playing Margo Channing in the musical version. (Warning: the following may be Too Gay.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71dRwNTN69I

Dorothy Malone in TBS is probly my all time number 1 futile crush

shocking to think that humphrey bogart kept a mistress after marrying lb. ya blew it, bogie

nancy davis was practically a bit player!

gloria dehaven was a bigger star than davis, and dehaven's still alive.

Applause has been posted on my wall a coupla times today.

Dorothy Malone in TBS is probly my all time number 1 futile crush

― The aim of Rooney is spot correct (Daphnis Celesta), Wednesday, August 13, 2014 4:08 PM (24 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

omg when she takes off her glasses

nancy davis was practically a bit player!

ehhh she co-starred and stole the show during an eight-year-long miniseries.

on TELEVISION

that doesn't count!

TS: Dorothy Malone vs Lee Remick in the Taking Off Glasses and Shaking Hair sweepstakes

i love the glasses!

updated 2 months ago

http://thefilmexperience.net/blog/2013/12/16/100-of-the-oldest-living-screen-stars-of-note.html

oh, the glasses are great, it's just the look she shoots bogie when she takes them off

i forgot that danielle darrieux is not only still alive but as of just a few years ago she was still working

Doris Day was a p big star, Maureen O'Hara too (tho usu w/ a bigger leading man)

I dunno -- what were John Wayne's measurements?

thx Shecky

shocking to think that humphrey bogart kept a mistress after marrying lb

who?

i'm convinced that by this point jerry lewis is indestructible

xpost

john wayne was bigger than everybody, except clint walker

During the filming, while Bacall was home, Bogart resumed his discreet affair with Verita Peterson, his long-time studio assistant, whom he took sailing and enjoyed drinking with. But when Bacall suddenly arrived on the scene discovering them together, Bacall took it quite well. She extracted an expensive shopping spree from him and the three traveled together after the shooting.[113]

xp to doc mo

also morbz you ought to see the cobweb, it's fantastic. on warner archive i think? here's where i get to be a snob and say i've only seen it in 35mm.

xpost

some men just need to dip their dick every fucking day, it's a disease

it's the dream life

http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_kqovbj6wGi1qzhiqwo2_1280.png?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAI6WLSGT7Y3ET7ADQ&Expires=1408052182&Signature=OCbGksF0LZlc26TpxeQfTNH5Q5E%3D#_=_

http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736x/05/8b/49/058b49c0bf3222eb7f4ba56d7f8c6455.jpg

anyway back to bacall

http://25.media.tumblr.com/35c69a21ba65edbc04a4f8e0d7c11b05/tumblr_mpn3g1Sh351rjut7do1_250.gif

Think goffee and The Fan outgay Applause.

Michael Biehn is the stalker in The Fan? How does he "read"?

(Applause was a hit, nobody in '81 saw The Fan)

Sinatra called her "The Jew Bitch", and used to entertain friends by telling them how bad she was at giving head. In return, Bacall actually coined the term "The Rat Pack" when describing Bogie (their then-leader) and the gang after a bender.

he's such a gentleman

the previous Mrs Bogart apparently called her that as well

the other Mrs Bogart used to regularly punch him in the mouth.

yes, he called her Punchy i think

Why are we mourning these people again?

who's this troll?

that's a hit, a most palpable hit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xd6S0bVIag0

RIP Lauren Bacall

Makes me happy Norman Lloyd is still alive.

oops soz, in response to Morbs' link: http://thefilmexperience.net/blog/2013/12/16/100-of-the-oldest-living-screen-stars-of-note.html

According to last night's Channel 4 News, she was 'discovered by director, Howard Marks'. Good work, guys!

Full marks to the Channel 4 News team! Meanwhile: http://theweek.com/article/index/266334/lauren-bacalls-remarkably-honest-account-of-humphrey-bogarts-death

I watched Dark Passage for the first time last night, possibly the least loved of the four B&B movies. It's famous for Bogey being either voice-only POV camera or swathed in cosmetic-surgery bandages for the first hour (as an escaped convict), but their scenes have sizzle of course. Then Agnes Moorehead has to be seductive and it kinda goes to hell. Some San Francisco location shooting too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiRTnAcxL44

Gonna spend the afternoon watching Lauren Bacall High Point coffee videos in my plant-festooned wicker sunroom.

MMMMMMMM