I saw her on the stage in London, playing the Margot Channing role that Bette Davis had made famous in All About Eve ("Fasten your seat belts - it's going to be a bumpy night"). This was the musical version, re-named Applause, and Bacall was simply brilliant. I'm not surprised that she won the Best Performance award when she played it on Broadway.

The most impressive part was actually her curtain call, which brought the house down. She changed clothes specifically for it, into an elegant black evening dress - nothing to do with the period costumes she'd been wearing as Margot - and entered from upstage centre instead of the side as the others had done. She then processed all the way down to the footlights like a model on a catwalk, as Miss Bacall herself, greeting us for the first time that night. Words don't describe the electrifying effect it had on the audience. We all knew we were seeing a legend in the flesh, which is the hallmark of true star power. What a classy lady.

Betty and Bogie, a match made in Heaven. Literally, now.