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    LIFE Remembering Lauren Bacall, 1924-2014
    LIFE Remembering Lauren Bacall, 1924-2014
    LIFE Remembering Lauren Bacall, 1924-2014
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    LIFE Remembering Lauren Bacall, 1924-2014

    By The Editors of LIFE

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    LIFE Magazine remembers actress Lauren Bacall.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLife
    Release dateOct 27, 2016
    ISBN9781683305705
    LIFE Remembering Lauren Bacall, 1924-2014

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      LIFE Remembering Lauren Bacall, 1924-2014 - The Editors of LIFE

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      Back to The Golden Age

      WHEN LAUREN BACALL DIED IN AUGUST just shy of her 90th birthday, there was sympathy for her family, of course, and also lamentation that we, the film audience, had, what with the earlier losses this year of Mickey Rooney and Shirley Temple, seen the last of the Golden Age greats. That’s not true. Olivia de Havilland is still with us, living today in Paris at 98 years old. Kirk Douglas, whom Bacall dated when she was a 17-year-old in acting school in New York City, is alive at age 97. Doris Day is 90 and Dame Angela Lansbury 88. Relative whippersnappers such as Sean Connery and certainly Sophia Loren touched the Golden Age.

      But Douglas seemed to speak for many of us when he said, With the loss of Lauren Bacall, whom we all called Betty, a meaningful part of my history has been extinguished.

      She was glamorous from the get-go—at least from the get-go of her public persona. As we will learn from the narrative beginning on the pages immediately following, as a child she was just, in her words, a nice Jewish girl from New York City, Betty Perske, growing taller and dreaming the usual little girl dreams. Yes, she, like the older Douglas, took acting classes, but nothing was assured. Success and fame came in a tremendous rush, and overnight Lauren Bacall was an exemplar of the Golden Age.

      LIFE’s batting average on these things isn’t necessarily Ruthian or even Jeteresque. When staff photographer Ed Clark sent us pretty pictures of a young ingenue taken by him in an L.A. park, a curvy woman taking the stage name Marilyn Monroe, we didn’t run them. When Terence Spencer called from London to put us on to this phenomenon sweeping Britain in 1963, Beatlemania, we demurred.

      But almost as soon as director Howard Hawks (and particularly Mrs. Hawks, as you will read) found Betty Bacall for his new film To Have and Have Not, we found her too—and in fact, as you see, that was our cover copy: a new movie find. With our October 16, 1944, cover story the American public got a week off from the war and an early look at the Look.

      "Midway through the first reel of To Have and Have Not, a new movie, the sulky-looking girl . . . saunters with catlike grace into camera range and in an insolent, sultry voice says, ‘Anybody got a match?’ ran the first paragraph of the LIFE piece. That moment marks the impressive screen debut of 20-year-old Lauren (Betty) Bacall." (It was Hawks who changed Betty to Lauren.)

      It certainly was an impressive debut, and one she would struggle to top. But she did have several other film successes, and in the Golden Age mode, she led an off-screen life as fascinating as anything she was putting on the big screen. Most famously, she married her To Have and Have Not costar, the much older Humphrey Bogart, and the two of them were congenial hosts to a platoon of Hollywood wild folk that became the original Rat Pack. After Bogart’s death there was the affair with Frank Sinatra, the marriage to Jason Robards, the Broadway triumphs . . . the elegant segue into the life of a Golden Age Grande Dame. LIFE stayed with the story: Bacall in a fashion spread, Bacall’s new movie in color, the Widow Bogart and her son at the funeral, Bacall in her seniority. Many of the pictures we ran in days gone by are in the portraits adorning our biographical sketch, and then in A Life in Pictures to follow.

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