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      • Lauren Bacall, 19, was a former model starring in her first leading film role when she met Humphrey Bogart, 45, on the set of To Have and Have Not in 1944. Bogart was married to his third wife, actress Mayo Methot, at the time. Despite their 25-year age gap, sparks flew between the two stars, and their relationship progressed quickly.
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  2. Jan 28, 2024 · Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart met in 1943 when Bacall was a 19-year-old former model and Bogart was a famous actor 25 years her senior. Here is a complete timeline of their relationship...

    • Bacall Admits There Was 'No Lightning Bolt' When She First Met Bogart
    • Despite Having Feelings For Bacall, Bogart remained Married to His Third Wife
    • They Reunited For 'The Big Sleep,' and Their Connection Was Stronger Than Ever
    • Bogart and Bacall Married 11 Days After His Divorce from Methot
    • Bacall Put Her Career Aside to Raise Their Family
    • Bogart Died 11 Years Into Their Marriage

    When she first arrived in Hollywood, 19-year-old Bacall wasn't a big fan of movie star Bogart. At one point, director Howard Hawks told her he was thinking of putting her in a movie with either Bogart or Cary Grant. Her reaction: "I thought, 'Cary Grant — terrific! Humphrey Bogart — yucch.'" Hawks introduced Bacall to a 43-year-old Bogart in 1943. ...

    Bogart had been married to his third wife, actress Mayo Methot, since 1938. The couple's heavy drinking and arguments had resulted in their being nicknamed "the battling Bogarts." Fights could be so destructive that a carpenter was reportedlyon call to handle repairs. In 1942, Methot had become violently enraged and stabbed Bogart. Being married me...

    In addition to Bogart's wife and her mother's disapproval of the relationship, Bacall had to deal with Hawks. The director, who'd likely been interested in romancing Bacall himself (though he was also married), had insisted Bogart had no real feelings for her. He'd also threatened to sell her contract to a lesser studio. Bogart had stood up to Hawk...

    By the end of 1944, Bogart had come to a final decision. He hated having to end his marriage, to the point that he missed work and disrupted the filming schedule (which was unusual for him). But, after a binge at Christmas, his marriage to Methot was finally over. Bogart got divorced on May 10, 1945. On May 21, when he was 45 and Bacall was 20, the...

    Bogart and Bacall would work on two more films together: Dark Passage (1947) and Key Largo (1948). However, Bacall's career was no longer her main focus. "Bogie was an old-fashioned man," Bacall told an interviewerin 1979. "He kidded that a woman’s place was in the home, but he was only half kidding. He had divorced three actresses and was convince...

    Bogart was diagnosed with cancer of the esophagus in 1956. He went through surgery, but remained very ill, with Bacall taking care of him. On January 14, 1957, he died and Bacall became a widow at 32. "Bogie's death was devastating, but I had to focus on my two young children. So I had something kind of constructive to think of," she told Peoplein ...

  3. May 21, 2020 · In 1945, screen legends Bogie and Bacall tied the knot in the Ohio boondocks. An excerpt from a new book revisits their fairy-tale wedding and the forgotten farmer who lured them into the...

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  4. Aug 14, 2017 · He and Bacall tied the knot on May 21, 1945 at a ceremony on Pulitzer Prize-winning author Louis Bromfield's farm in Lucas, Ohio. They would go on to have two children together, staying married until Bogart's death in 1957. Getty Images.

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  5. Jul 12, 2023 · But in fact, Bogie had been in love with his first three wives as well, a fact deliberately obscured and sometimes denied in service to the Bogie and Bacall legend. Each time he wed, Bogie thought he’d found true love. Turns out, the cynical, hard-hearted Humphrey Bogart was a softie when it came to love.

  6. May 21, 2015 · According to A. M. Sperber and Eric Laxs biography Bogart, Bogarts wife at the time he began his affair with Bacall, the actress Mayo Methot, referred to Bacall as “your...

  7. Jun 8, 2022 · Bogart and Bacall entranced moviegoers in “To Have and Have Not,” but they were also entranced with each other. Bogart, 44, was in the midst of a troubled, alcohol-fueled marriage to his third wife, Mayo Methot, when he met Bacall, a 19-year-old who had won the attention of Hawks thanks to his second wife, also named Slim, who caught sight ...