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Aug 13, 2014 · Lauren Bacall Appreciation: They Don’t Make Them Like Her Anymore. By Pete Hammond. August 13, 2014 10:44am. “Just be careful. She doesn’t suffer fools.” That was the advice a...
- She Tried It on For Size
- He Left Them
- She Knew as Soon as She Saw Him
- There Was A Mix-Up
- She Was Vulnerable—But Not Naive
- She Couldn’T Control Herself
- He Made It All About Her
- He Wanted Her
- She Wanted Someone Else
- He Was A Huge Creep
Like many things in her life, Lauren Bacall got her stage name via misadventure. The woman who became Lauren Bacall was born Betty Joan Perske to Jewish parents on September 16, 1924. Her mother’s maiden name was actually Weinstein, but she later took the root of that name—“wine glass” and translated it to Romanian, bokal. The young actress’s mothe...
Lauren Bacall grew up in New Jersey with her parents, but when she was just five years old, something turned her world upside down. In 1932, her parents divorced, and her father completely disappeared from her life. While it brought the young actress and her mother closer together, it was clear from interviews and those who knew Bacall that her fee...
As soon as Bacall hit high school, her ambitions were clear—she wanted to be famous. And Bacall’s love for acting wasn’t only borne out of a desire for attention. She was a bonafide fan of both stage and screen, and one of her favorite stars was Bette Davis. When she was 13, she went to see Davis star in Marked Woman. The film introduced her to her...
As a struggling actress, Lauren Bacall took on modeling jobs and even briefly worked as a theater usher. Then, when she was 18, she became a model for Harper’s Bazaar. Soon after, socialite Slim Keith spotted Bacall on the cover, and found her intriguing. She showed the magazine to her husband, film director Howard Hawks. Keith suggested that Bacal...
While this fluke worked out in Bacall’s favor, it wasn’t all smooth sailing for the young actress. She had the look—but she also had little acting experience, with just a few plays under her belt. Bacall explained her apprehension to Hawks, but he saw it as an advantage. Bacall didn’t have any of the bad habits that other actresses he’d worked with...
When Lauren Bacall went for her first screen test, for Hawks’ film To Have and Have Not, she was so nervous that she couldn’t help from trembling. In order to steady herself, she lowered her chin and tilted her eyes up to the camera. Not only did it help control her nerves, but the sultry pose became her signature “look”—and, it certainly charmed o...
Hawks decided that not only would he cast Bacall as Marie in To Have and Have Not, that he would focus more on her character, eliminating a love triangle plot and making her the sole romantic interest of the actor he’d chosen to play the main character—none other than Bacall’s childhood crush, Humphrey Bogart. He also spent hours a day on set with ...
When Howard Hawks cast Lauren Bacall at the romantic lead in To Have and Have Not, it was supposed to be her big break in Hollywood. Instead, she wound up on the wrong end of a disturbing love triangle. Despite the fact that his own wife had discovered Bacall, Hawks was a notorious womanizer, and he had his sights set on the young actress. Consider...
Lauren Bacall was emphatically not interested in her boss—but that doesn’t mean she was above falling for another colleague. The chemistry between Bacall and her co-star Humphrey Bogart was undeniable, and it translated into red-hot passion offscreen. There was just one problem: his notoriously jealous wife, actress Mayo Methot. So, for those keepi...
To make things even more disturbing, director Howard Hawks had based much of Bacall’s character on his wife at the time, including her nickname (“Slim”), her enigmatic demeanor, and her low, smoky voice—which he had purposely taught Bacall to mimic. Despite this misguided tribute, Hawks wound up with something of a consolation prize. When he couldn...
Feb 2, 2023 · Lauren Bacall, like many actresses before and after her, experienced ageism in Hollywood. In 1985, she explained in an interview, "We all want to look better, everyone does, I mean that's not original, but one gets older, younger people come up." While she accepted this fact of life, Bacall admitted that becoming older made it harder and harder ...
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Here, we take a look back at the life of the actress, who's resume makes her a formidable contender for one of Hollywood's greatest icons. Getty Images. Lauren Bacall was born Betty Joan Perske in ...
Aug 12, 2014 · Bacall back-burned her career in the '50s when her two children with Bogart were young—"but thank God I did put our marriage first, because it didn't last too long," she says now, referring to ...
Aug 15, 2014 · Bacall died Tuesday in New York. She was 89. Though she made more than 40 films, and won Tony Awards in the '70s and '80s, she was forever associated with Bogart. When their affair began on the...
Feb 25, 2021 · Lauren Bacall’s Long, Lucky Life. In By Myself and Then Some, the screen siren recounts her career—and romances with the likes of Humphrey Bogart and Frank Sinatra—with sharp insight and sly...
