Lauren Bacall R.I.P.

[doversoul1]

Days when Hollywood could create real dreams….

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-28767401

R.I.P.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Here's looking at you, kid.

[salymap]

Yes RIP LB, part of my early film going. She had everything.

[amateur51]

One of the last of the Great Hollywood Stars.

I met Lauren Bacall once when I was working at Liberty & Co Ltd in Great Marlborough Street, London. It was in the early days of book signings before they became ten-a-penny and she came in to sign her autobiography for customers. The atmosphere before arrival was rather like that of receiving royalty, in this case Princess Margaret because a large bucket of ice, a full bottle of gin and sliced lemon were made available off-stage in the Picture Department office, next to the Record Department where I worked.

The Diva arrived and was ushered into this office and did not appear again for a good twenty minutes,which delay led to a mounting excitement around the signing table. When she finally emerged there was a n audible but reverent gasp of delight and astonishment. She was quite tall, her hair was magnificently wavy and shiny, the gin had clearly worked its magic and she was ready to go to meet her public

I had to carry on working so I didn't see much more of her but when I did sneak out to get a copy for a friend (at staff discount - this was long before Amazon!!) she was standing up having a fag break (this was the late 1970s!) and my lasting impression was the size of her feet! They were huge! The things you notice

Her book is worth reading too., an interesting life on and off-screen, she told it as it was.

Brava Lauren Bacall!

[makropulos]

This is sad news. She was a lovely, funny and brilliant woman as well as a terrific actress. I was fortunate to see her on Broadway in "Woman of the Year" - a Kander and Ebb show in which she was stunning as the lead.

At 89, it was bound to happen one day, but it's still very sad. RIP Lauren Bacall.

[slarty]

She graced every film she appeared in. "Key Largo" and her wonderful performance in "Murder on the Orient Express" stand out.
RIP

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

i can whistle! i can whistle!

[amateur51]

i can whistle! i can whistle!

[Ockeghem's Razor]

'You just put your lips together...and blow.'

[John Wright]

A Hollywood star that I had a crush for as a kid

And I was thrilled to see Lauren Bacall on Broadway must have been 1981 or 1982, Woman Of The Year. At the wonderful Palace Theatre. Fabulous.

One of my favourite clips of her, singing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxTn9w9r3MM

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

A Hollywood star that I had a crush for as a kid

...ahem, there is a queue ....

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

A Hollywood star that I had a crush for as a kid

Just as a kid?!

Fickle, some people; fickle!

[John Wright]

another clip from To Have And Have Not

[John Wright]

and her sexiest lines?

[jayne lee wilson]

To Bogie in "The Big Sleep":
"So you do get up. I was beginning to think you worked in bed like Marcel Proust."

To those of us intoxicated with feminism's heady first wave in the 1970s (and many of us were as confused as we were excited) she showed another way of being a woman. You didn't necessarily need the boiler suit...